Islam political parties

Party-political Aspect of Politization of Islam in 1990s: Russia and Volga Region Projection

The paper studies an attempts of building of stable Russian Muslim political parties and movements. The author argues that created at 1990s Islam parties and organizations could not be able to build an effective channels for political representation of Muslim population in whole of Russia as well as at regional political level, mainlyat Volga-area.Muslim party building process was used by some political activists as an important resource for recruitment into Russian political elite through federal electoral machine.