The collapse of USSR had led the Russian Federation to a political change of democracy which resulted a new constitution, presidential election, and democratic legislative and federal reform in 1993. After Vladimir Putin became the president of Russia in 2000, he actively implemented the political reform and stabilized the development of the state. Through the process of democratization both of Mikhail Gorbachev and Yeltsin, the purpose of this thesis is to investigate Putin’s reform of centralization which includes: creating federal districts and the presidential plenipotentiary envoys, party politics and parliamentary election reform, and control over the mass media. The author suggests that Putin's "managed democracy" not only was characterized by authoritarianism, also it has been the heritage of communism. Though Putin's centralized reform has been speculated as the political retrogression, his reforms, on the other hand, has brought effectiveness and made Russian politics more stabilized.