Russia today
Series: Social research -- v. 76, no. 1 (Spring 2009); Social research -- v. 76, no. 1
Publisher: New School for Social Research
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781933481166
Subjects: Politics and government; Social conditions
Notes: Cove title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Endangered scholars worldwide; title: Editor's introduction  -- Arien Mack; title: Why market reform succeeded and democracy failed in Russia  -- Anders Åslund; title: The "other" Russian economy: how everyday firms view the rules of the game in Russia  -- Timothy Frye, -- Andrei Yakovlev, -- and -- Yevgeny Yasin; title: Russia: a petrostate in a time of worldwide economic recession and political turmoil  -- Marshall Goldman; title: "Stop the invasion!": money, patriotism, and conspiracy in Russia  -- Sergei Alex. Oushakine; title: Putin's Russia: the quest for a new place  -- Fyodor Lukyanov; title: Vladimir Putin: his continuing legacy  -- Dale R. Herspring; title: Property: what it is good for?  -- Jessica Allina-Pisano; title: Russian higher education  -- Andrei Kortunov; title: Regional developments in Russia: territorial fragmentation in a consolidating authoritarian state  -- Tomila Lankina; title: From Russia with blat: can informal networks help modernize Russia?  -- Alena Ledeneva; title: The Russian Orthodox Church in contemporary Russia: structural problems and contradictory relations with the government, 2000-2008  -- Nikolay Mitrokhin; title: Islam in Russia  -- Alexei V. Malashenko; title: Historical memory in post-Soviet gothic society -- Dina Khapaeva.