Commentary
While France and Australia are seeking to establish the legal obligations of messaging apps like Telegram, Russia wants total subordination.
Maria Kolomychenko
Book
Russia After Communism
This book features chapters written by pairs of leading Russian and American scholars, and provides an overall assessment of what has been accomplished and what has failed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Published on Jan 1, 1999
Source: Washington
Michael McFaul and Nikolai Petrov analyze the Russian elections since 1989 and assess voting behavior. Lilia Shevtsova and Martha Brill Olcott address the question of whether Russia has become a stable pluralist society. Valery Tishkov and Martha Brill Olcott focus on the nature of the Russian nation as well as regional relations. Russia has become a market economy, but what kind of capitalism is being formed? Anders Åslund and Mikhail Dmitriev examine the continuing challenge of economic reform. Sherman Garnett and Dmitri Trenin analyze Russia's relations with its nearest neighbor.
About the Authors
Anders Aslund
Former Senior Associate, Director, Russian and Eurasian Program
Martha Brill Olcott
Former Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Program and, Co-director, al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia
Olcott is professor emerita at Colgate University, having taught political science there from 1974 to 2002. Prior to her work at the endowment, Olcott served as a special consultant to former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger.
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