V monografii analiziruyutsya problemy stanovleniya i dinamiki rossiyskoy partiynoy sistemy v 1990-2000-e gg. Dannye protsessy predstavleny kak chast' obshchey transformatsii politicheskogo rezhima v nashey strane. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno sovremennomu sostoyaniyu instituta politicheskikh partiy, faktoram partogeneza, a takzhe osobennostyam formirovaniya i funktsionirovaniya partiy na regional'nom urovne, rassmotrennym na materialakh Altayskogo kraya, Kemerovskoy i Novosibirskoy oblastey. Kniga rasschitana na spetsialistov, prepodavateley i studentov - istorikov i politologov, i vsekh, kto interesuetsya politicheskimi partiyami i politicheskimi protsessami v sovremennoy Rossii.