🍂 Autumn reading time! Let our AI Librarian find your perfect cozy read 🫖
Explore the literary world of this author
A Life
Even after his death in April 2007, Boris Yeltsin remains the most controversial figure in recent Russian history. Although Mikhail Gorbachev presided...
What Everyone Needs to Know
Examines "the origins, evolution, and current affairs of the Russian state and society. The story begins with Russia's geographic endowment, proceeds ...
Governing the Socialist Metropolis
Linchpin of the Soviet system and exemplar of its ideology, Moscow was nonetheless instrumental in the Soviet Union's demise. It was in this metropoli...
The Structure of Soviet Military Politics
For six decade the Soviet system has been immune to military rebellion and takeover, which often characterizes modernizing countries. How can we expla...
The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia
Disorder erupted in Ukraine in 2014, involving the overthrow of a sitting government, the Russian annexation of the Crimean peninsula, and a violent i...
Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia
Subjects obey. Citizens choose. Transitional Citizens looks at the newly empowered citizens of Russia's protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot bo...
The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000
Twice in the winter of 1999-2000, citizens of the Russian Federation flocked to their neighborhood voting stations and scratched their ballots in an a...
Russian Democracy and the Election of 1993
Growing Pains is a detailed study of the 1993 election and of its implications for Russian development and for the country's relations with the West. ...
From Empire to Nations
The failed coup by Communist hardliners in Moscow in August 1991 marked the inevitable disintegration of the Soviet Union. No single event since the e...
...
Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto
Civil-military Relations from Brezhnev to Gorbachev
How much power does the Soviet military exert on the politics of the Kremlin? This is one of the most controversial questions in the study of the Sovi...