Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 248 p. In the 1990s, as the Soviet Empire lay in ruins, the Russian and Ukrainian governments undertook a project to dismantle the collective farm system that was created under Stalin and in the process privatize an expanse of farmland larger than Australia. Ordinary people were supposed to benefit from the reform, but local government...
American Enterpise Institute, Washington. 2015. — 175 p. Leon Aron has gathered a supremely talented group of academics from Russia to help illuminate the many polit-ical, economic, and social dilemmas facing their country. Underlying all the essays are a sensitivity to political context on a wide range of topics that few works can match. Even seasoned Russia hands will learn...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 228 p. — ISBN10: 0230612245; ISBN13: 978-0230612242 This unprecedented book examines the explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia from the turbulent years of the immediate post-communist era through the more troubling recent developments of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Focusing on concepts of sexuality, gender, and national...
Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002. — 539 p. Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective studies two regions beset with extreme corruption, organized crime extending into warlordism, the disintegration of human services and economic institutions, and the breakdown of state after state. The book examines state...
Routledge, 2015. — 256 p. — (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series) The term "tandem" was used to describe the Putin-Medvedev combination which ruled Russia from 2008 to 2012, when Medvedev was president and Putin prime minister. Many people saw Putin as the real wielder of power, with Medvedev as his puppet. Others, however, saw Medvedev as a visionary,...
William Collins, 2019. — 320 p. — ISBN: 9780008300074. Version: 2019-11-05. The explosive, untold story of how Russia mastered the art and science of targeted assassination – and why even the most powerful nations in the world have failed to stop Putin. They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs,...
Mulholland Books, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0316417238. ISBN13: 978-0316417235. The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the...
Mulholland Books, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0316417238. ISBN13: 978-0316417235. The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the...
Mulholland Books, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0316417238. ISBN13: 978-0316417235. The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat. Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the...
Mulholland Books, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0316417238. ISBN13: 978-0316417235. The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad-while Western spies watched in horror as their governments failed to guard against the threat Unflinchingly documenting the growing web of death on British and American soil, Heidi Blake bravely exposes the...
The Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence organizations of the Departments of State, Defense, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, 1964. — 69 p. As considered in this estimate, Soviet general purpose forces include: (a) theater forces, i.e., ground combat and tactical air forces plus their associated command, support, and service elements, up through the level of...
Librairie Artheme Fayard, 2010. — 604 p. Après l’effondrement du régime communiste, la Russie a tenté avec Eltsine de normaliser ses relations avec l’Occident. Que reste-t-il de cette ambition? Tandis que Poutine a rendu puissance extérieure et fierté intérieure aux Russes, l’Occident se méfie de la Russie qu’il voit comme un pays où règne la corruption, peu regardant sur les...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 384 p. Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 289 p. Today's Russia, also known as the Russian Federation, is often viewed as less powerful than the Soviet Union of the past. When stacked against other major nations in the present, however, the new Russia is a formidable if flawed player. Russia: What Everyone Needs to Know provides fundamental information about the origins,...
Dmitry Medvedev , former First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation during a session at the Annual Meeting 2007 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2007.
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 508 p. The breakup of the U.S.S.R. was unexpected and unexpectedly peaceful. Though a third of the new states fell prey to violent civil conflict, anarchy on the post-Soviet periphery, when it occurred, was quickly cauterized. This book argues that this outcome had nothing to do with security guarantees by Russia or the United Nations and...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015 — 396 p. — ISBN10: 900429144X; ISBN13: 978-9004291447. The break-up of the Soviet Union is a key event of the twentieth century. The 39th IIS congress in Yerevan 2009 focused on causes and consequences of this event and on shifts in the world order that followed in its wake. This volume is an effort to chart these developments in empirical and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 506 p. This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 506 p. This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war...
Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 0745696260; ISBN13: 978-0745696263 The Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular opposition. In this sweeping new account of the protests, Mischa Gabowitsch challenges these...
Ebury Press, 2019. — 160 p. Meet the world's most dangerous man. Or is he? Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose networks of power reach into the very...
Ebury Press, 2019. — 160 p. Meet the world's most dangerous man. Or is he? Who is the real Vladimir Putin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions of words written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand one of the world's most powerful politicians, whose influence spans the globe and whose networks of power reach into the very...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 222 p. — ISBN10: 3319432001; ISBN13: 978-3319432007 — (New Security Challenges) Countless attempts at analyzing Russia’s actions focus on Putin to understand Russia’s military imbroglio in Ukraine, hostility towards America, and disdain of ‘Gayropa’. This book invites its readers to look beyond the man and delve into the online lives of...
London: Routledge, 2003. — 296 p. Russia's financial buccaneers: the wild and woolly East. Setting the stage: the Russian economy in the post-communist era. The legacy of the czarist era: untenable and unsavory roots. It's broke, so fix it: the Stalinist and Gorbachev legacies. Privatization: good intentions, but the wrong advice at the wrong time. The nomenklatura oligarchs....
Yale University Press, 2019. — 296 p. A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin’s grip on power is more fragile then we think. What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences of ordinary Russians and elites alike,...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 352 p. How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grigas illustrates how — for more than two decades — Moscow has consistently used its compatriots in bordering nations for its territorial ambitions. Demonstrating how this policy has been implemented in Ukraine and Georgia,...
Cold War International History Project, 1998. — 209 p. “Why Is Stalin’s Archive Still Locked Away?” Archival Legal Reform The Archival Fond of the Russian Federation Overall Archival Organization and Agency Control The Role of Rosarkhiv Economic Problems and Preservation: “Closed for Remont” and Unpaid Vacation Archival Destruction and Retention Policies “Trophy” Archives and...
Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. — 281 p. Regional Russia in Transition: Studies from Yaroslavl' examines democracy in a central region of Russia, a largely industrialized heartland off the beaten path from Moscow and Leningrad. Yaroslavl' has been the subject of a series of studies since 1990 by a...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 296 p. This book offers the first systematic analysis of Putin's two wars, placing the Second Chechen War and the War with Georgia of 2008 in their broader historical contexts. Drawing on extensive original Russian sources, Marcel H. Van Herpen analyzes in detail how Putin's wars were prepared and conducted and why they led to...
By Maksymilian Czuperski, John Herbst, Eliot Higgins, Alina Polyakova, and Damon Wilson. — Atlantic Council, Washington, Dc (usa). May 2015. 40 p. This Atlantic Council report, Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin’s War in Ukraine, collects and brings to light the facts that the Kremlin is trying to keep in the dark. It exposes the breadth and depth of Russian military involvement in...
Brookings Institution Press, 2003. — 327 p. Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union’s collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia’s geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic...
Public Affairs, 2011. — 608 p. — ISBN: 9781610390705. A relatively “old” book in that it first deals with the rise of oligarchs in the Yeltsin era and how some of them helped Putin’s rise to power. Thereafter he beat them in the political game. The rest is history.
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. - 456 p. Follows the transformation of Russian nationalist discourse in the 21st century, from imperialism to ethno-nationalism Russian nationalism, previously dominated by ‘imperial’ tendencies – pride in a large, strong and multi-ethnic state able to project its influence abroad – is increasingly focused on ethnic issues. This new...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. — 392 p. — ISBN10: 0199241503; ISBN13: 978-0199241507. Providing a challenging and controversial explanation of the recent events in Russia, this volume examines the causes, processes, and consequences of Russia's political development. Drawing on and criticizing the existing literature, the book shows how the recent Russian experience can...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. — 222 p. — ISBN10: 146964066X, 13 978-1469640662. When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a great power. How did he do it? What principles have guided Putin's economic policies?...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. — 696 p. From the former Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times comes The New Tsar, an epic and incisive portrait of Vladimir Putin, one of the most important and destabilizing world leaders in recent history. In a gripping narrative of Putin's rise to power as Russia's president, Steven Lee Myers recounts Putin's origins - from his childhood...
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1998. — 112 p. One of the great surprises in modern military history is the collapse of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1991 — along with the party-state with which it was inextricably intertwined. In this important book, a distinguished United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and fall of the Soviet military, arguing that it...
New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1998. — 544 p. — ISBN-10: 0300082711; ISBN-13: 978-0300082715 One of the great surprises in modern military history is the collapse of the Soviet Armed Forces in 1991 — along with the party-state with which it was inextricably intertwined. In this important book, a distinguished United States Army officer and scholar traces the rise and...
Atlantic Books, 2015. — 400 p. By tracing the history of modern Russia from Mikhail Gorbachev to the rise of ex KGB agent Vladimir Putin, Arkady Ostrovsky reveals how the Soviet Union came to its end and how Russia has since reinvented itself. Russia today bears little resemblance to the country that embraced freedom in the late eighties and gave freedom to others. But how did...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 0801475570; ISBN13: 978-0801475573. The sudden dissolution of the Soviet Union altered the routines, norms, celebrations, and shared understandings that had shaped the lives of Russians for generations. It also meant an end to the state-sponsored, nonmonetary support that most residents had lived with all their lives....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 272 p. Prozorov offers a radical reinterpretation of contemporary Russian politics in terms of Agamben's philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's conception of the end of history, that challenges the Hegelian thesis, Prozorov approaches post-communist Russia as a post-historical terrain, in which the teleological dimension of politics has been deactivated.
Washington, D.C.: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1997. — 289 p. ntroduction: Russian Regionalism in Post-Soviet Society. Peter J. Stavrakis . The historical setting . Center-Periphery Relations in Historical Perspective: State Administration in Russia. Don K. Rowney . Politics . The Development of Federalism in Russia. Joan DeBardeleben . Electoral Behavior and Attitudes in...
In a powerhouse bid that included the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Russia, has won the right to host the 2014 Winter Games.
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 289 p. — ISBN: 9780190659240. The author was a Moscow correspondent for the Guardian and Observer and, before that, the Independent. This work is the outcome of more than a decade’s experience of living in Russia. He has traveled far and wide in this vast land. The title of the book comes from a comparison in the book,“Russia was like a party...
Der Präsident der Russischen Föderation Wladimir Putin und seine Frau Ludmilla Putina besuchten im Rahmen ihres Staatsbesuches in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland am Dienstag, den25. September 2001, den Deutschen Bundestag. Nach der Begrüßung durch Bundestagspräsident Wolfgang Thierse und einer Eintragung ins Gästebuch des Deutschen Bundestages hielt der russische Präsident vor...
Der Präsident der Russischen Föderation Wladimir Putin und seine Frau Ludmilla Putina besuchten im Rahmen ihres Staatsbesuches in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland am Dienstag, den25. September 2001, den Deutschen Bundestag. Nach der Begrüßung durch Bundestagspräsident Wolfgang Thierse und einer Eintragung ins Gästebuch des Deutschen Bundestages hielt der russische Präsident vor...
Der Präsident der Russischen Föderation Wladimir Putin und seine Frau Ludmilla Putina besuchten im Rahmen ihres Staatsbesuches in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland am Dienstag, den25. September 2001, den Deutschen Bundestag. Nach der Begrüßung durch Bundestagspräsident Wolfgang Thierse und einer Eintragung ins Gästebuch des Deutschen Bundestages hielt der russische Präsident vor...
Tim Duggan Books, 2020. — 368 p. In this rich and novelistic tour of contemporary Russia, Joshua Yaffa introduces readers to some of the country’s most remarkable figures - from politicians and entrepreneurs to artists and historians - who have built their careers and constructed their identities in the shadow of the Putin system. Torn between their own ambitions and the...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 336 p. A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future. This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving...
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