Ksenia Gonchar, Russia's Defense Industry at the Turn of the Century, Brief 17, Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Bonn November 2000, 60 pp. Summaries in English, German and Russian.

Social science in general and peace research in particular have developed only insufficient tools with which to analyse Soviet-type societies. The confusing diversity of regions and nation-states on the territory of the former Soviet Union requires a meticulous analysis of its foundations, as a...