The Legacy of the Soviet Union

Chapter 1 Introduction: Soviet Union in Retrospect – Ten Years After 1991

Chapter 3 Rival Versions of the East Slavic Idea in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

Chapter 4 Separatist States and Post-Soviet Conflicts

Chapter 5 Management of Ethnic Relations in Kazakhstan: Stability without Success

Chapter 6 Transactions in the US–Russia Relationship: Representational Gymnastics, Shifting Agency and Russia’s Decline

Chapter 7 Blat Lessons: Networks, Institutions, Unwritten Rules

Chapter 8 Administrative Regions and the Economy

Chapter 9 Law Reform and Civil Culture

Chapter 10 Censorship and Restrictions on Freedom of Speech in Russia: 1986–1991–2001

Chapter 11 Politics Beyond the Garden Ring: Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience

Chapter 12 Westernism, Eurasianism and Pragmatism: The Foreign Policies of the Post-Soviet States, 1991–2001

Chapter 13 Conclusion: Stalin’s Death 50 Years On