... 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...

... 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California Putin Russia Yeltsin When Vladimir Putin was elected to theRussian presidency in a landslide victoryin 2000, observers who had written eulogies for Russian democracy first after the coup of 1991...

... United States Putin Pentagon Russia Soviet Union Yeltsin 313 Realistic Engagement: A New Approach to American Russian Relations MICHAEL MCFAUL Ten years after the collapse of the SovietUnion and the end of the cold war, it is strik-ing how many remnants of that era remain. Tens of thousands...

... by internal struggles, basically looks after itself. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California authoritarian democracy Federation Council FSB Gazprom Kremlin Putin rule law Russia Yeltsin President Vladimir Putin s consolidation...

... that Russian ‘reform’ could unfold through ordinary, not extraordinary, means? © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California capitalist communist democracy Gorbachev Putin reform revolution Russia Soviet Union Yeltsin 330 The last decade...

... in strengthening a free media. © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California advertising Gorbachev Kremlin media press Putin reformist Russia television Yeltsin 343 The Russian Media: From Popularity to Distrust FLORIANA FOSSATO President Putin...