1. Transformation of the Sino-Russian relationship : from Cold War to the Putin era / Niklas Swanstrom -- 2. Political and cultural roots of Sino-Russian partnership / Lowell Dittmer -- 3. The Russia-China-US triangle and its post-Cold War fate / Bobo Lo -- 4. Russia and the geopolitics of...

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:...