Introduction : why Russia matters and how -- Russia's historical roots -- Russia's new political system and succession … policies -- Challenges of demography and health -- Are Russians moving backwards? -- Russia as a post-imperial power -- Summing … up the balance sheet : implications for US policy toward Russia -- Fact sheet on Russia, 2000-2008 …

Introduction and methodology -- A critical historicism for post-Soviet Russia within international political economy … -- Examining Russia's post-communist transitional political economy -- The embedding of Russian state-sanctioned multipolarity in … economy -- Aleksandr Dugin's Eurasianism : co-opting or co-opted in Russia's Putin era civilizational project? -- The legacy …