| Agriculture and the State in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia | Stephen Wegren | This comprehensive, original and innovative analysis of the social, economic and political factors affecting contemporary Russian reform is based upon extensive field work, interviews, archival documents, and published and unpublished source material conducted over a six-year period. This book is organized around the central question of the role of the state and its effect on the course of Russian agrarian reform. |
| Between Nation and State | Nicholas Miller | Miller chronicles the politics in Croatia prior to the first World War. The failures of the Croat-Serbian Coalition led to their inability to create a cohesive civic/democratic union during the war years, and prevail to this day. |
| Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics | Zvi Gitelman | Collection of essays by prominent historians, political scientists, and professors of literature that examine the political, social, and cultural impact of Zionism and Bundism on Jewish society. |
| Institutions and the Fate of Democracy | Michael Bernhard | A detailed investigation of the development of democratic political institutions, this book offers insight into the emerging governments of these two countries. |
| New Capitalist Order | Hilary Appel | Examines why privatization was so popular immediately after the fall of communism, and why it has failed in its intended goals of improving the economies of postcommunist countries. |
| Organized Labor in Postcommunist States | Paul Kubicek | Examination of why the power and role of workers’ unions have greatly diminished in the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries since the fall of Communism. Generally surprising turn of events, since organized labor played a large role in regime change. |
| Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy | Richard Herrmann | This book discerns Soviet leaders' views of the United States and sees them in relation to foreign policy statements and actions. |
| Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel | Aviezer Tucker | Aviezer Tucker examines how the political philosophy of Jan Patocka (1907–1977), founder of Charter 77, influenced the thinking and political leadership of Vaclav Havel as dissident and president. |
| Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions | Mitchell Orenstein | The editors of this volume contend that transnational actors have exerted a powerful influence in postcommunist transitions. They demonstrate that transitions to democracy, capitalism, and nation-statehood, which scholars thought were likely to undermine one another, were facilitated by the integration of Central and East European states into an international system of complex interdependence. Transnational actors turn out to be the “dark matter” that held the various aspects of the transition together.
Leading scholars debate the role and impact of transnational actors and present a promising new research program for the study of this rapidly transforming region. |
| Truth of Authority | Thomas Remington | Thomas Remington views the methods used by the Communist Party in official communications to Soviet society during the 1970s and 1980s. |
| Unexpected Outcomes | Robert Moser | Robert Moser offers a sophisticated analysis of Russia’s complex electoral system, and its effects on political parties and representation in Russia during the 1990s. |
