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....

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Roots of Iran's Relations with the Eastern Powers -- 1. Iran and the World Order: Russia and China as a Bulwark Against the West -- Iran's Place in the World -- Iran's Relations with Russia - China and Revising...

Politics and Economics in the Russian Far East addresses the key issue of what the Russian Far East and its Northeast Asian neighbours can do to further closen economic and co-operative relationships. The question of to what extent the state should intervene to stimulate economic growth in the...

In recent years the Russian government, concerned about sustaining its economic performance, has sought to promote more diversified and broader economic growth beyond the profitable natural-resource sector. Economic officials would like to see something closer to a "knowledge-based economy." One...