The paper reviewed the monograph of Yu.A. Nisnevich “Electoral Corruption in Russia: Political and Legal Analysis of Federal Election Campaigns in 2003?2012” (Moscow, 2014). It outlines both the advantages of the book (thoroughness and particularity of the presentation, wide source base) and its shortcomings (reduction of electoral corruption to the abuse of the ‘administrative resource’, gaps in the presentation, an arguable interpretation of some facts).