... culture autocracy democracy communism Crimea Ukraine NATO Boris Yeltsin Boris Nemtsov Dmitry Medvedev 251 Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for so long that it s hard to imagine Russia without him. He has been Russia s central decision maker as president or prime minister for nearly two...

... Soviet Union Berlin Wall Boris Yeltsin Vladimir Putin © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets , by Svetlana Alexievich Random House , 2016 It has now been a quarter-century since...

...Daniel Treisman From the turmoil of recent decades, Russians have inherited … a belief that the existing income distribution is arbitrary and unjust. Daniel Treisman Russia income inequality Vladimir Putin Boris Yeltsin economy democracy capitalism communism 264 From the turmoil...

... the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the events of December 1991. To explore this paradox, O Clery focuses on the two men who engineered the dismantling of the Soviet Union: Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. O Clery, drawing on memoirs and news accounts in both English and Russian, along...

... History. All rights reserved. 2010 The Regents of the University of California David Engerman Soviet Union United States sovietology Boris Yeltsin 310 BOOKS A bunch of freaks and nuts. That s how one academic assessed Soviet scholars in America during the 1940s. They were a motley crew...

... with the possibility that their edifice of privatization will periodically shift and crack and may even collapse. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Vladimir Putin Russia economy Lukoil nomenklatura communism Boris Yeltsin Boris Berezovsky...

... of the University of California Russia Chechnya Vladimir Putin Colin Powell terrorism Aslan Maskhadov Budennovsk United States Boris Yeltsin George Bush 313 As long as President Putin insists on framing the war in Chechnya as a strug- gle with international terrorism . . . and as long...