1. Getting to Democracy 3. The Contradictions of Communism 5. Free at Last? Democracy in the Newly Independent States 6. Varieties of Authoritarianism 7. Democracy for Whom? The Baltic States 8. Russiaś Third Try 9. Russia: The Context of Freedom 10. The Struggle Continues
Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collaps…
Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collaps…
"A number of recent events in the last decade have renewed interest in Russian discourses on international law. This book evaluates and presents a contemporary analysis of Russian discourses on international law from various perspectives, including sociological, theoretical, pol…
"From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful…
Focuses on the ways in which working-class youth graduating from vocational colleges in the province of Ulianovsk negotiates and experiences transition from school to work. Discusses changes in the vocational education system and the reproduction of social identities and inequal…
"A native of Yalta, Constantine Pleshakov is intimately familiar with Crimea's ethnic tensions and complex political history. Now, he offers a much-needed look at one of the most urgent flash points in current international relations: the first occupation and annexation of one E…
"A revelatory, behind-the-scenes account of Russian-American relations from the optimistic days of the end of communism in the Reagan-Gorbachev era to the confrontational era of Putin. In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join President-elect…
"Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national secur…
One of the most enduring features in the modern history of Northern Eurasia has been the nationalities question. Not only did the resurgence of nationalism in the late 1980s prove pivotal to the ending of the twentieth century's last empire, the Soviet Union, but it has remained…
Since 1991, when the Russian Federation became an independent state, hundreds of organisations have been created to champion human rights causes, with varying strategies, and successes. The response of the authorities has ranged from being supportive, or indifferent, to openly h…
by Sakwa, Richard, Kuzio, Taras, Laruelle, Marlene, Galeotti, Mark, Wilson, Andrew, Hutchings, Stephen, Dyczok, Marta, Rutland, Peter, Chaisty, Paul, D'Anieri, Paul, Connolly, Richard, Marples, David, Katchanovski, Ivan, Pikulicka-Wilczewska, Agnieszka, Petro, Nicolai N., Onuch, Olga, Kiryukhin, Denys, Uehling, Greta, Pogrebinskiy, Mikhail, Walker, Edward W., Whitefield, Stephen, Chebankova, Elena, Szostek, Joanna, Molchanov, Mikhail A., Bacon, Edwin, Osipov, Alexander
"When, on 21 November 2013, former Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych decided to postpone an EU Association Agreement, few would have predicted that this would lead to a prolonged inter-communal conflict in Europe's borderland. What started as a peaceful demonstration of supp…
The Politics of Energy Dependency explores why these states were unable to move towards energy diversification. Through extensive field research using previously untapped local-language sources, Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals a complex picture of local elites dealing with the co…
"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, Marel H. Van Herpen analyzes in detail how Putin's wars were …
