Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One The Current State of Economic Transformation -- 1. Shared Aspirations, Diverging Results -- 1. Introduction -- 2. GDP Estimates for 1992 -- 3. Production -- 4. Domestic Absorption --...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Problem of Social Order -- 1. Institutions and Social Order: Sociological and Economic Approaches -- 2. Self-Governance and Social Order: A More Political Approach -- 3. Benign Neglect:...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Russian Federation map -- Introduction -- Definitions of Democracy and Market Economy -- Theses of This Book -- The Structure of This Book -- Chapter 1 Perestroika-The Great Awakening: 1985-87 -- Why Perestroika Started --...

The story of Russia's First World War remains largely unknown, neglected by historians who have been more interested in the grand drama that unfolded in 1917. In Russia's First World War: A Social and Economic History Peter Gatrell shows that war is itself 'revolutionary' - rupturing established...

Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Oil, Gas, and Modernization is an in-depth analysis on the impact of oil and gas abundance on political, economic, and social developments of Russia and other post-Soviet states and nations (such as Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan). The chapters of the book...

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Topic and Method -- 1 A Land of Cities -- 2 The Thirteenth- Century Decline -- 3 Moscow and Novgorod -- 4 The ' English Tsar' -- 5 The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century -- 6 Empire of the Periphery -- 7 Peter the Great -- 8 The Eighteenth- Century Expansion --...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction Counter-Shock and Counter-Revolution -- Part I: Oil Prices in Context -- 1. Price Regimes, Price Series and Price Trends: Oil Shocks and Counter-Shocks in Historical Perspective -- 2....