Comment And Analysis On Putin's "Middle Courese" Theory

In 1985, the social transition of Russia began with the reform and new thought of Mikhail Gorbachev, which has lasted more 20 years. Especially, Russia experienced quite complicated course when Yeltsin came into power for 8 years. On a whole inheriting the democracy and reformation initiated by Yelsin, Vladimir Putin maintains some economic, political and diplomatic system, holding some concrete policies modified later by Yeltsin, after he assumed the reins of government. Apparently, it was far from insufficient only by inheriting. Thus, Putin began to adjust the policies of economy, politics and diplomacy when he came into power. Firstly, in order to stabilize the political situation and develop the economy, Putin took a series of measures to enforce the central regime. Secondly and more importantly, Putin brought forward the aim to make the country more powerful and the people richer and live well., which has priority over all others. At the end of Putin's first term of office, the wonder of the economic development has arisen and the politics has gradually become stable. In March 2004, Putin surpassed over all other rivals with overwhelming superiority of 71.2% votes and was reelected president. The media considered that Russia has really come into the period of Putin. Over two years has passed since Putin's reelection and he carried through the reform of politics, economy, society and diplomacy, which all becomes Putin's "middle course" essential element.There are four main parts in the text: The first part summarizes the social and historical conditions that Putin's "middle course" theory was put forward from four aspects i.e. the era background, historical background, existing condition and subjective condition. The second part mainly analyses the theoretic resource, including the thought and centrism of Russia, the thought trend of both "middle course" of the "third world" and the west "third way". The third part presents the basic factors of Putin's "middle course" theory with a long paragraph, from the meaning of Putin's "middle course" theory to his ultimate aim and directing thoughts, from the "effective economy" to "controllable democracy" and "economic and pragmatic diplomacy". The forth part mainly describes the characteristic of Putin's "middle course" theory and the revelation to the construction of Chinese modernization.The keys of this text are the third and forth part, of which the third part is a connecting link between the preceding and the following and it is not only the nature prolongation of the first and second parts but the precondition of the forth part. It is the key to the whole text to grasp basic elements of Putin's "middle course" theory completely and deeply. And at the same time, the third part is also the difficulty of this text. Though President Putin has been in power for more than 6 years and his inside and outside policies trend has made sure approximately, it is more difficult to orientate well and truly Putin's "middle course" theory, and thus summarize general cognition in order to make this text reliable, theoretic and real because of the changing situations of the international politics, economy and Russia conditions. Moreover, it is more difficult to grasp completely due to a long period of time when comparing the mode of interior and diplomacy in Putin's era with that in Yeltsin's days. The forth part is the staying and the end-result of the text. Based on simple outline of the characteristics of Putin's "middle course" theory, this part summarizes the inspiration that Putin's "middle course" theory gives us, in the meaning of Chinese modernization construction: The band of the use for reference and the innovation should be established in the situation of our country ; both market-oriented and democratization are a gradual and long process; the two basic links to building market economic system are to quicken strategic adjustment of national economy and to alter the functions of the government; keeping a foothold in harmony and raising the people's living standards are the ultimate targets of building an overall well-to-do society, which is one big brightened dots of the text and also the maximal significance in writing this text. In addition, there are also two brightened dots in the text: The one is that Putin's theory origin of the "middle course" has been made excavate in depth to find the Putin's "middle course" theory basis and make it more cogent. The other is that looking on Putin's "middle course" theory connotation, guiding ideology, economy tactics, politics tactics and diplomacy strategy etc. as an entire system to inspect the state policy, to make people know Putin's state policies more clearly and more objectively.