Recently added articles from Social Research:
Endangered scholars worldwide.(scholars arrested)
Mar 22, 2009; Clegg, John ... CHINA LIU XIAOBO is a prominent writer and human rights advocate who wrote for the "China in Transition" issue of Social Research (73:1, 2006). Liu was arrested on December 8, 2008 on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power" after coauthoring Charter 08, a declaration ...
Editor's introduction.
Mar 22, 2009; Mack, Arien ... IN KEEPING WITH OUR POLICY TO PUBLISH RECURRING ISSUES ON PLACES in the world undergoing or recently having undergone marked changes (see our issues on China [Volume 73:1, Spring 2006] and South Africa [Volume 72:3, Fall 2005]), this issue looks at current aspects of the Russian state and ...
Why market reform succeeded and democracy failed in Russia.
Mar 22, 2009; Aslund, Anders ... POSTCOMMUNIST TRANSFORMATION HAS LED TO VARIED RESULTS. * Today, all the countries in Central and Eastern Europe, from the three Baltic states to Slovenia, Romania, and Bulgaria, have become market economies with predominate private ownership. They are also democracies. Ten countries in ...
The "other" Russian economy: how everyday firms view the rules of the game in Russia.
Mar 22, 2009; Frye, Timothy ... A NEW NARRATIVE HAS COME TO DOMINATE VISIONS OF BUSINESS-STATE relations in Putin's Russia. * This view depicts the rise of Russia as a natural resource state bent on using its oil, gas, and mineral fiches to restore Russia's place in the world and to ensure high levels of economic growth ...
Russia: a petrostate in a time of worldwide economic recession and political turmoil.
Mar 22, 2009; Goldman, Marshall I. ... THE SUDDENNESS AND THE RANGE OF THE ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL THAT began in 2008 has hit most of the world by surprise, Russia included. How promising the world economic situation and globalization all seemed to be as recently as the summer of 2008. But like the sweep of the ocean tides, no ...
"Stop the invasion!": money, patriotism, and conspiracy in Russia.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Oushakine, Sergei Alex. ... The practices of conspiracy theory form a tensely articulated pact with therapeutic culture through the logics of stress, trauma, injustice, self-made agency, and redemption. Taken separately and together, conspiracy theory and therapeutic culture constitute fields of feeling that channel ...
Putin's Russia: the quest for a new place.(Vladimir Putin)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Lukyanov, Fyodor ... ON MAY 7, 2008, DMITRI MEDVEDEV TOOK OFFICE AS PRESIDENT OF THE Russian Federation. By that time, it was already known that former President Vladimir Putin would be appointed prime minister. The new system of power that emerged in Russia was immediately called "tandemocracy" and it was ...
Vladimir Putin: his continuing legacy.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Herspring, Dale R. ... VLADIMIR PUTIN CONFRONTED A STAGGERING ARRAY OF PROBLEMS when he became interim president of Russia on January 1, 2000. "Russia," he noted, "is in the midst of one of the most difficult periods in its history. For the first time in the past 200-300 years, it is facing a real threat of ...
Property: what is it good for?(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Allina-Pisano, Jessica ... I PRIVATIZATION IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIA MOST OFTEN HAS BEEN understood as part of the post-Soviet transition, a step on the path to market coordination of the economy after 70 years of communism. But the massive property transfers of the 1990s in postcommunist Europe were not ...
Russian higher education.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Kortunov, Andrei ... IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT EDUCATION IS ONE OF THE MOST CONSERVATIVE social institutions, resisting change and innovation, protecting its traditions and autonomy to the greatest extent possible. On the other hand, education is also an important economic factor that has to respond to changing ...
Regional developments in Russia: territorial fragmentation in a consolidating authoritarian state.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; Lankina, Tomila ... REGIONS AND REGIONALISM HAVE BEEN KEY FACTORS IN POST communist Russia's state building. The Yeltsin-era's "hyperfederalism" is credited with preserving Russian nascent statehood as much as are the centralist reforms of Vladimir Putin and his successor, Dimitri Medvedev. Territorial ...
From Russia with blat: can informal networks help modernize Russia?(Lecture)
Mar 22, 2009; Ledeneva, Alena ... SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION, MOSCOW HAS BECOME A global city with a vibrant urban and cultural life--one of the most expensive capitals in the world with famous clubs and restaurants as well as one of the most popular destinations for city workers and diplomats. Has corruption ...
The Russian orthodox church in contemporary Russia: structural problems and contradictory relations with the government, 2000-2008.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Mitrokhin, Niklolay ... THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, OR ROC, IS THE LARGEST CENTRALIZED religious organization in the post-Soviet space. According to the Patriarch Aleksy II, the late leader of the ROC, the Church in Russia as of June 2008 had 14,290 parishes, which is approximately 50 percent of all ...
Islam in Russia.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Malashenko, Alexei V. ... ACCORDING TO THE 2002 CENSUS, THE MUSLIM POPULATION OF RUSSIA was 14.5 million people. By 2008, the number of Muslim citizens exceeded 15 million, not taking into account legal or illegal migration. If we add Azerbaijanis to this count--"by most modest estimates 1.5" million (Sadovskaya, ...
Historical memory in post-Soviet Gothic society.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Khapaeva, Dina ... ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2006, SAINT PETERSBURG WITNESSED THE REBURIAL of Maria Fedorovna, mother of the last Russian emperor. Her ashes were brought from Denmark to Russia. Russian society as well as the Russian government tried their best to rise to the occasion. The event was carefully planned ...
