April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
Region: Eurasia
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
What Went Wrong in Russia? The Roots of the Economic Crisis
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
What Went Wrong in Russia? The Problem of Fiscal Federalism
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
What Went Wrong in Russia? Creating Perverse Incentives
January 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1
Galina Starovoitova (1946-1998)
On the evening of 20 November 1998, Galina Vasilievna Starovoitova was shot to death outside her St. Petersburg apartment. She was the sixth member of the Russian Duma to have been murdered since that body’s creation in 1993. Most observers agree that this was a political assassination. Starovoitova was a tireless, persistent voice for freedom,…
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
Armenia’s New Autocrats
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
Public Opinion in New Democracies: Where Are Postcommunist Countries Going?
January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
Where is Russia Headed? An Uncertain Prognosis
January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
Where is Russia Headed? Toward Stability or Crisis?
April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2
Russia Between Elections: The Vanishing Center
April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2
Russia Between Elections: The Travails of Liberalism
April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2
The Persistence of Postcommunist Elites
April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2
Defending Glasnost
January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1
Nation Building in the Former USSR
October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
Armed Forces and Democracy: The Postcommunist Wars
July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
Two Sides of the New Russia
July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
Kazakhstan’s Quandry
July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
Departures from Communism
A review of From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union, by Minxin Pei and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era, by Merlec Goldman.
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Reexamining Russia: Crime Without Punishment
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Reexamining Russia: Institutions and Incentives
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Economic Reform and Democracy: Beyond Shock Therapy
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Georgia’s Identity Crisis
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Ukraine at the Crossroads
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Tyranny and Myth
A review of The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, by Martin Malia and Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age, by Daniel Chirot.
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
The Case for Radical Reform
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
Understanding Postcommunist Transitions
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
January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
Kyrgyzstan: The Trials of Independence
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 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1
Central Asia on Its Own
October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
Nationalism and Democracy
October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
Comments on Nationalism and Democracy
April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
Problems of Postcommunism: Civil Society Then and Now
April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
Problems of Postcommunism: Toward a Civil Economy
April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
Problems of Postcommunism: The Military Under Democracy
April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
Problems of Postcommunism: The Battle of the Trade Unions
January 1992, Volume 3, Issue 1
Russia’s Emerging Political Parties
January 1992, Volume 3, Issue 1
Societal Takeover in China and the USSR
Fall 1991, Volume 2, Issue 4
After the Moscow Coup
Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3
The USSR’s Protracted Crisis
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
Russia’s New Constitution
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
The Crisis of Perestroika
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
The Nations of the USSR
A review of Hidden Nations: The People Challenge the Soviet Union, by Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky.
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
The Return of Russian Nationalism
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
Pressing for Democracy in the USSR
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
The Suicide of Soviet Communism
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
The Last Empire
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
The Legacy of Andrei Sakharov
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
The Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc: Squaring the Soviet Circle
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.
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