April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Country: Russia
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Reexamining Russia: Institutions and Incentives
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Economic Reform and Democracy: Beyond Shock Therapy
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
The Case for Radical Reform
July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Rethinking Civil Society: Russia’s Fourth Transition
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Explaining the Vote
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Toward Presidential Rule
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Instability and Fragmentation
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Is Russian Democracy Doomed? A Return to Stability
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Is Russian Democracy Doomed? A Communist Setback
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Zhirinovsky’s World
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Is Russian Democracy Doomed? The Ascent of the Inflationists
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
Is Russian Democracy Doomed? The Politics of Resentment
July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
Politics After Communism: Weimar Russia?
April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
The Morass in Moscow: Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Four Crises
April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
The Morass in Moscow: The Democrats in Disarray
January 1992, Volume 3, Issue 1
Russia’s Emerging Political Parties
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
Russia’s New Constitution
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
The Return of Russian Nationalism
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
Why Putin Must Be Defeated
The more determined democracies are to avoid war, the greater the risk that autocracies will wage it.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
Putin’s Inevitable Invasion
Why did Russia invade Ukraine? And why are Russian forces fighting so poorly? The internal logic of its personalist dictatorship is to blame.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
Do Russians Support Putin?
More than window dressing, public-opinion surveys and elections provide a crucial insight into the Russian people’s relationship with their regime.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
How Putin’s War in Ukraine Has Ruined Russia
The first two months of the war alone turned the Russian clock back decades, undoing thirty years of post-Soviet economic gains and reducing the country to an international pariah state.
What Mattered to You in 2022
In 2022, we began publishing shorter, exclusively online pieces. No topic mattered more to you than Russia’s disastrous war in Ukraine. We also published essays from the sharpest minds on protests in China and Iran, instability in Pakistan, and more.
Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy
In recent years, as leading authoritarian countries such as China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela have become emboldened within the global arena, challenging the liberal international political order, the advanced democracies have retreated rather than responding to this threat.
Democracy after Communism
Is the challenge of building and consolidating democracy under postcommunist conditions unique, or can one apply lessons learned from other new democracies? The essays collected in this volume explore these questions, while tracing how the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have fared in the decade following the fall of communism.