1. The making of a Russian engineer -- 2. First steps in railway engineering -- 3. Engineering professor -- 4. The Russian Revolution of 1905 -- 5. Applications of science on the Russian railways, 1908-1914 -- 7. America and the Bolshevik Revolution -- 8. Building the new Russia -- 9. The diesel...

1. Russian revolution or redistribution of rights -- 2. Winners and losers in the privatisation game -- 3. How successful are Russian companies? -- 4. Getting into Russian firms -- 5. Avtoelektronika -- 6. Avtovaz -- 7. Kondrovo Paper Company -- 8. Norilsk Nickel -- 9. Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper...

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...

1. Introduction -- 2. National television and the 2000 presidential election -- 3. Elite conflict and the end of independent television -- 4. Controlling the news agenda -- 5. National television and the 2003 State Duma elections -- 6. National television and the 2004 presidential election -- 7....

chapter 1 Introduction: Market Power on the Make -- chapter 2 A Taxonomy of Power Relationships -- chapter 3 Russian Power: Constructing an Ideal Type -- chapter 4 Continuity and Change in the Prevailing Model of Power: On Path-Dependence in Russian History -- chapter 5 Market as a Weapon:...

Why have anti-corruption efforts often failed? Current thinking on corruption has largely overlooked the profound implications of its contested nature, which paradoxically makes it an effective yet highly dysfunctional 'tool of government.' As a tool of government, it helps execute policies and...