Select Bibliography:
Useful Sources on Post-Communist Politics

This list was compiled by Andrea Chandler.


Eastern Europe:


Brada, Josef C. "The Transformation from Communism to Capitalism: How Far? How Fast?" Post-Soviet Affairs , vol. 9, no. 2, 1993, pp. 111-140; Peter Murrell, "What is Shock Therapy? What did it do in Poland and Russia?" Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 9, no. 2, 1993, pp. 111-140.

Deacon, Bob and Paul Stubbs. "International Actors and Social Policy Development in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Globalism and the New Feudalism," Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 8, no. 2, May 1998, pp. 99-115.

Istvan Deak, "Post-Post Communist Hungary," New York Review of Books, vol. 41, no. 14, August 11, 1994.

Gagnon, V.P.Jr. "Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: the Case of Serbia" International Security, vol. 19, no. 3, winter 1994-95, pp. 130-166.

Gowan, Peter. "Neo-Liberal Theory and Practice for Eastern Europe," New Left Review, no. 213, September-October 1995, pp. 3-60.

Holc, Janine P. "Liberalism and the Construction of the Democratic Subject in Post-Communism: the Case of Poland" Slavic Review, vol. 56, no. 3, fall 1997, pp. 401-28.

Judah, Tim. "How Milosevic Hangs on," New York Review of Books July 16, 1998, pp. 44-47.

Claus Offe, "The Politics of Social Policy in East European Transitions: Antecedents, Agents and Agenda of Reform" Social Research, vol. 60, no. 4, winter 1993, pp. 649-84.

Stephen White, Judy Batt and Paul G. Lewis, Developments in East European Politics, London: Macmillan, 1993.

Russia:



Fish, M. Steven. "Democratization's Requisites: the Postcommunist Experience." Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 14, no. 3, 1998, pp. 212-47.

Friedgut, Theodore H. and Jeffrey W. Hahn. Local Power and POst-Soviet Politics. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1994.

Hanson, Philip. "What Sort of Capitalism is Developing in Russia?" Communist Economies and Economic Transformation vol. 9, no. 1, 1997, pp. 27-41.

Kirkow, Peter. "Local Self-government in Russia: Awakening from Slumber?" Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 49, no. 1, 1997, pp. 43-58.

Kuzio, Taras. "International Reaction to the Chechen Crisis." Central Asian Survey, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 97-109.

Millar, James R. "From Utopian Socialism to Utopian Capitalism: The Failure of Revolution and Reform in Post-Soviet Russia," Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 42, no. 3, May-June 1995, pp. 7-14.

Nogee, Joseph L. and R. Judson Mitchell. Russian Politics: the Struggle for a New Order. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1997.

Ordeshook, Peter C. "Russia's Party System: Is Russian Federalism Viable?" Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 195-217.

Parrish, Scott. "Presidential Decree Authority in Russia 1991-95" in John H. Carey and Matthew Soberg Shugart, eds. Executive Decree Authority, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

David Remnick, "How Russia is Ruled" New York Review of Books, April 9, 1998, pp. 10-15.

Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR and the Successor States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Matthew Wyman, "The Russian Elections of 1995 and 1996," Electoral Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 1997, pp. 79-86.

The Collapse of Communism



Dallin, Alexander. "Causes of the Collapse of the USSR." Post-Soviet Affairs, vol. 8, no. 3, October-December 1992, pp. 279-302.

Karklins, Rasma. "Explaining Regime Change in the Soviet Union." Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, 1994, pp. 29-45.

Odom, William E. "Soviet Politics and after: Old and New Concepts." World Politics vol. 45, October 1992, pp. 66-98.

Roeder, Philip G. Red Sunset: the Failure of Soviet Politics Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Slezkine, Yuri. "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism." Slavic Review, vol. 53, no. 2, summer 1994, pp. 414-452.

Ethnicity in Post-Communist States:


Mikhail A. Alexseev, "Early Warning, Ethnopolitical Conflicts and the United Nations: Assessing the Violence in Georgia/Abkhazia," Nationalities Papers vol. 26, no. 2, 1998, pp. 191-211.

Timothy Edmunds, "Power and Powerlessness in Kazakstani Society: Ethnic Problems in Perspective," Central Asian Survey vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 463-470.

Daniel R. Kempton,"The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): The Evolution of Centre-Periphery Relations in the Russian Federation," Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 48, no. 4, 1995, pp. 587-613.

Szporluk, Roman, ed. National Identity and Ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

The Soviet Successor States



Abdullaev, Rasheed and Umed Babakhonov, "Thank the Taliban for the Tajik Peace Agreement," Transitions, October 1997, pp. 46-51.

Bremmer, Ian and Ray Taras, eds. New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Chinn, Jeff and Steven D. Roper, "Ethnic Mobilization and Reactive Nationalism: the Case of Moldova," Nationalities Papers vol. 23, no. 2, 1995, pp. 291-323.

Colton, Timothy J. and Robert C. Tucker. Patterns in Post-Soviet Leadership Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995.

Dawisha, Karen and Bruce Parrott, Russia and the New States of Eurasia: the Politics of Upheaval New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Dunlop, John B. The Rise of Russia and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Gall, Carlotta and Thomas deWaal, Chechnya: a Small Victorious War. London: Pan, 1997.

Kusainova, Azahar and Gregory Gleason. "Constitutional Reform and Regional Politics in Kazakstan," Nationalities Papers, vol. 26, no. 3, 1998, pp. 531-544.

Kuzio, Taras and Andrew Wilson. Ukraine: Perestroika to Independence. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studiess Press, 1994.

Rakowska-Harmstone, Teresa. "Russia's Monroe Doctrine: Peacekeeping, Peacemaking or Imperial Outreach?" pp. 231-265 in Maureen Appel Molot and Harald von Riekhoff, eds. A Part of the Peace. Canada among Nations 1994. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1994.

Remington, Thomas F. Parliaments in Transition: the New Legislative Politics in the former USSR and Eastern Europe Boulder: Westview Press, 1994.

Roy, Olivier, "The Ties that Bind," Index on Censorship vol. 28, no. 2, March-April 1998, pp. 130-134.

Rubin, Barnett R. "The Fragmentation of Tajikistan," Survival vol. 35, no. 4, winter 1993-94, pp. 71-91.

Szporluk, Roman, ed. National Identity and Ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

Foreign Policy:



S.J. Ball, The Cold War: an International History, 1947-91. London: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Blum, Douglas W. "Domestic Politics and Russia's Caspian Policy." Post-Soviet Affairs vol. 14, no. 2, 1998, pp. 137-164.

Kennan, George F. At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995, New York: Norton, 1996.

Kennan, George F. "Witness to the Fall," New York Review of Books , November 16, 1995, pp. 7-10.

Powaski, Ronald E. The Cold War: the United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Women and Gender



Heinen, Jacqueline, "Public/private: Gender-social and Political Citizenship in Eastern Europe," Theory and Society, vol. 26, August 1997, pp. 577-97.

Racioppi, Linda and Katherine O'Sullivan See, "Organizing Women Before and After the Fall: Women's Politics in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia," Signs summer 1995, pp. 818-849.

Rzhanitsyna, L.S. and G.P. Sergeeva, "Women in the Russian Labour Market," Russian Education and Society August 1996, pp. 67-79.

Verdery, Katherine. "From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe." East European Politics and Societies vol. 8, no. 2, spring 1994, pp. 225-255.

Zalewski, Marysia. "Well, what is the feminist perspective on Bosnia?" International Affairs vol. 71, no. 2, 1995, pp. 339-356.