During the 1990s, Russia underwent an extraordinary transformation from a communist dictatorship to a multi-party democracy, from a centrally planned economy to a market economy, and from a belligerent adversary of the West to a cooperative partner. Yet a consensus in the US circa 2000 viewed...

1. Master signifier in decay : evolution of Russian political discourse since Putin's comeback / Andrey Devyatkov -- 2. New media and political protest : the formation of a public counter-sphere in Russia, 2008-12 / Svetlana S. Bodrunova and Anna A. Litvinenko -- 3. Russian identity after the...