%0 Journal Article %T Immensit¨¦ et despotisme, le pouvoir en Russie. %A Pascal Marchand %J EspacesTemps.net %D 2011 %I Association Espaces Temps.net %X Depuis le 16¡ã si¨¨cle, la Russie est un pays immense. Historiquement, le pouvoir s'y est toujours exerc¨¦ de fa on despotique : ¨¤ l'autocratie tsariste a succ¨¦d¨¦ la dictature du prol¨¦tariat sovi¨¦tique. Depuis 1992, le projet officiel est d'essence d¨¦mocratique mais des obstacles structurels entravent sa mise en pratique. Les r¨¦gimes tsariste (sauf entre 1861 et 1917) et sovi¨¦tique ont en effet veill¨¦ ¨¤ interdire toute structuration spatiale susceptible de constituer des p les de r¨¦sistance ¨¤ leur toute-puissance politique et ce, ¨¤ l'¨¦chelle individuelle (propri¨¦t¨¦ priv¨¦e du sol), comme ¨¤ l'¨¦chelle institutionnelle (pouvoir urbain ou r¨¦gional). Quinze ans apr¨¨s la chute de l'U rss , cette structuration reste incertaine or, de son affirmation d¨¦pend celle de l'¨¦tat de droit en Russie. Since the sixteenth century, Russia has been a vast country when compared to other states. Historically, power has always been exercised in a despotic way : the Tsarist autocracy led the way to the dictactorship of the Soviet proletariat. Since 1992, the official project has been a tendancy towards democracy but spatial inertia has impeded this development. Tsarist regimes (except between 1861 and 1917) and the Soviet regime have been carefully preventing any change to the spatial structure that could possibly favour the emergence of any kind of resistance to their political power. Both at an individual level (private ownership of land) and at an institutional level (urban or regional power). Fifteen years after the collapse of the U ssr , the building of these structures remains uncertain. Unfortunately, the emergence of the Rule of Law in Russia depends on it. %U http://www.espacestemps.net/document8868.html