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  • The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century

    How the Past Informs the Present

    by Barbara Ann Chotiner, Linda J. Cook, Andrea Chandler, Gerald M. Easter, Michael S. Klecheski, Bruce Parrott, Cynthia Roberts, Mikael Sandberg, Kate Schecter0, Andrew Sherlock1, Thomas Sherlock2, Susan Gross Solomon3, Stephen Wegren4, Peter H. Solomon6 ...
    The Post-Communist World in the Twenty-First Century presents studies by senior scholars and practitioners that are highly relevant to contemporary political challenges. The democratic vision that accompanied the collapse of communist regimes in the Soviet Union and East Central Europe has been replaced by a range of authoritarian, semi-authoritarian and democratic regimes, and growing division ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Social Capital and Social Cohesion in Post-Soviet Russia

    by Judyth L. Twigg, Kate Schecter ...
    This work shows that the collapse of socialist employment and social service systems - and of the USSR itself - has had profoundly damaging effects, manifested in dislocation and homelessness, ethnic strife, family breakdown, declining life expectancy, and soaring rates of violence and crime. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business

    by Alena V. Ledeneva ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the ... Read more

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  • Taking Stock of Shock

    Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions

    by Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein ...
    Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of populism in Eastern Europe. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, more than 400 million people suddenly found themselves in a new reality, a dramatic transition from state socialist and centrally ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy

    Edited by Michael Alexeev, Shlomo Weber ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    By 1999, Russia's economy was growing at almost 7% per year, and by 2008 reached 11th place in the world GDP rankings. Russia is now the world's second largest producer and exporter of oil, the largest producer and exporter of natural gas, and as a result has the third largest stock of foreign exchange reserves in the world, behind only China and Japan. But while this impressive economic growth ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes

    The Putin Years and Afterwards

    Edited by Andrey Makarychev, Andre Mommen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Russian Politics Today

    Stability and Fragility

    Edited by Susanne A. Wengle ...
    Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility provides an accessible and nuanced introduction to contemporary Russian politics at a time of increasing uncertainty. Using the theme of stability versus fragility as its overarching framework, this innovative textbook explores the forces that shape Russia's politics, economy, and society. The volume provides up-to-date coverage of core themes – ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Transition Economics

    Two Decades On

    by Peter Luke, Gerard Turley ...
    Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems. Given the passage of time, Transition Economics: Two Decades On reviews and accounts for the outcomes in the so-called transition economies and, from an academic perspective, takes the reader through ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Tax Politics in Eastern Europe

    Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise

    by Hilary Appel ...
    “This is the first book to systematically examine the variation in policies of Eastern European countries. There is a theoretical contribution to understandings of variation in tax policies, but just as impressive is the in-depth empirical analysis and in particular the data from interviews with key players in the process.”—Yoshiko Herrera, University of Wisconsin-MadisonPost-Communist tax reform, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • The Political Economy of Putin’s Russia

    by Pekka Sutela ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia’s economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After the slow decline and sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked upon a multi-faceted change. This included transition from central management to a market economy, from one-party rule to democracy, from multi-national ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • From Communists to Foreign Capitalists

    The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe

    by Nina Bandelj ...
    From Communists to Foreign Capitalists explores the intersections of two momentous changes in the late twentieth century: the fall of Communism and the rise of globalization. Delving into the economic change that accompanied these shifts in central and Eastern Europe, Nina Bandelj presents a pioneering sociological treatment of the process of foreign direct investment (FDI). She demonstrates how ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Authoritarian Modernization in Russia

    Ideas, Institutions, and Policies

    Edited by Vladimir Gel'man ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. Why did Russia (unlike many countries of post-Communist Europe) pursue authoritarian ... Read more

    $65.99 USD