Substantially revised and updated the second edition of this highly acclaimed text is both a
vital guide and a valuable critical analysis. The book provides a contemporary comparative …

This book presents a fresh view of Russian political change in the Gorbachev and early post-
Soviet periods not by examining perestroika and glasnost in and of themselves, but by …

The decade and a half since Gorbachev came to power has been a tumultuous time for
Russia. It has seen the expectations raised by perestroika dashed, the collapse of the Soviet …

U nder the impact of glasnost and perestroika, nationalism, long a serious po tial threat to
Soviet political life, has become the principal force affecting the fu of the Soviet state …

There is an abundance of writings describing the intellectual trends that led to the shaping of
the official ideology of the Soviet regime in the form in which it appeared by the middle of the …

This is a thought-provoking analysis on why democracy succeeds in some countries but not
others, comparing the post-transition experiences of two cases of contemporary …

In large and heterogenous countries, cross-regional inequality often fuels political conflict
over redistributive demands. Standard economic theory holds that initial inequality in …

An American political scientist reviews existing theories of transition from communism to
democracy. Novel arguments suggesting that both regimecentered and society-centered …

For Sovietology today is widely, even reflexively, assailed by both practitioners and
consumers." Western Sovietology, so assiduously fostered over the past four decades, has …

THE EVENTS OF AUGUST 1991 have at last opened up the possibility of radical reform in
the former Soviet Union. Although Soviet politics have changed dramatically since 1985 …