Select Bibliography on Post-Communism

Select Bibliography on Post-Communism

Section 1. General

Andor, Laszlo and Martin Summers. Market Failure. Eastern Europe’s ‘Economic Miracle’. L.: Pluto Press, 1998

Cohen, Stephen. Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia. W.W.Norton, 2000

Crawford, Beverly (ed.). Markets, States, and Democracy: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformation. Boulder: Westview, 1995

Dahrendorf, Ralf. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Times Books, 1990

Dallago, Bruno, Horst Brezinski and Wladimir Andreef. Convergence and System Change. The Convergence Hypothesis in the Light of Transition in Eastern Europe. Dartmouth Publishing, 1992

Eyal, Gil, Eleanor Townsley and Ivan Szelenyi. Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe. London: Verso, 2001

Gowan, Peter. The Global Gamble: Washington’s Faustian Bid for World Dominance. Verso, 1999

Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2005

Holmes, Leslie. Post-Communism: An Introduction. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997

Isham, Heyward and Natan Shklyar (ed.). Russia’s Fate Through Russian Eyes: Perspectives of a New Generation. Westview Press, 2000

Katsiaficas, George (ed.). After the Fall. 1989 and the Future of Freedom. Routledge, 2001

Klein, Lawrence and Marshall Pomer (ed.) The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry. Stanford University Press, 2001

Lane, David. The Rise and Fall of State Socialism. Industrial Society and the Socialist State. Polity Press, 1996

Lindblom, Charles. The Market System. What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make Of It. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001

Marquand, David. The New Reckoning. Capitalism, States and Citizens. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997

McBride, William L. Philosophical Reflections on the Changes in Eastern Europe. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999

Nolan, Peter. China’s Rise, Russia’s Fall: Politics, Economics and Planning in the Transition from Stalinism. New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1995

Offe, Claus. Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience. Cambridge: the MIT Press, 1997

Pickles, John and Adrian Smith (ed.). Theorising Transition. The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations. L.: Routledge, 1998

Reddaway, Peter, and Dmitry Glinsky. The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms : Market Bolshevism Against Democracy. Washington: US Institute of Peace, 2001

Smith, Graham. The Post-Soviet States: Mapping the Politics of Transition. L.: Arnold, 1999

Staniszkis, Jadwiga. Post-Communism: The Emerging Enigma. Warsaw: Institute of Political Studies, 1999

Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and its Discontents. W.W.Norton, 2002

Szacki, Jerzy. Liberalism after Communism. Central European University Press, 1995

Teeple, Gary. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform: Into the Twenty-First Century. Aurora: Garamond Press, 2000

Van Brabant, Jozef M.. The Political Economy of Transition. Coming to Grips with History and Methodology. L.: Routledge, 1998

Verdery, Katherine. What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? Princeton University Press, 1996

Von Beyme, Klaus. Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe. L.: Macmillan, 1996

White, Stephen. Communism and its Collapse. Routledge, 2001

Webber, Mark. The International Politics of Russia and the Successor States. Manchester University Press, 1996

Wedel, Janine. Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe. New York: St.Martin’s Press, 2000

Section 2. Politics, the State, Problems of Democracy

Alexeev, Mikhail A. Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled. Longman-Macmillan, 1999.

Allensworth, Wayne. The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia. Rowman and Littlefield, 1998

Baker, Peter and Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution. Scribner’s: 2005

Berdahl, Daphne, Matti Bunzl and Martha Lampland (ed.). Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. University of Michigan Press, 2000

Colton, Timothy. Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in Russia. Harvard University Press, 2000

Cook, Linda, Mitchell Orenstein and Marilyn Reuschemeyer (ed.) Left Parties and Social Policy in Postcommunist Europe. Westview Press, 1999

Crnobrnja, Mihailo. The Yugoslav Drama. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996

Dannreuther, Roland and Luke March (ed.). Russia and Islam : state, society and radicalism. London, New York : Routledge, 2010

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

Dawisha, Karen and Bruce Parrott (ed.). The Consolidation of Democracy in East-Central Europe. Cambridge University Press, 1997

Eckstein, Harry, Frederick Fleron, Erik Hoffmann, Gabriel Almond, and William Reisinger (ed.). Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State-Society Relations. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1998

Einhorn, Barbara, Mary Kaldor and Zdenek Kavan (ed.). Citizenship and Democratic Control in Contemporary Europe. Edward Elgar, 1996

Elster, Jon, Claus Offe, and Ulrich K.Preuss. Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies. Rebuilding the Ship at Sea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Gill, Graeme and Roger Marwick. Russia’s Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin. Oxford University Press, 2000

Goldman, Marshall. Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia. Oxford University Press, 2010

Glad, Betty and Eric Shiraev(ed.). The Russian Transformation: Political, Sociological, and Psychological Aspects. St. Martin’s Press, 1999

Grey, Robert D. (ed.) Democratic Theory and Post-Communist Change. Prentice Hall, 1997

Hosking, Geoffrey and Robert Service. Russian Nationalism Past and Present. L.: Palgrave, 1998

Jack, Andrew: Inside Putin’s Russia: Can there be Reform Without Democracy? Oxford University Press, 2004

Kagarlitsky, Boris. Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy. Pluto’s Press, 2002

Khazanov, Anatoly. After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States. University of Wisconsin Press, 1995

Klebnikov, Paul and Drenka Willen. Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia. Harcourt Brace, 2000

Lester, Jeremy: Modern Tsars and Princes: The Struggle for Hegemony in Russia. L.: Verso, 1995

Lieven, Anatol. Chechnya, Tombstone of Russian Power. Yale University Press, 1998

Lukin, Alexander. The Political Culture of the “Russian Democrats”. Oxford University Press, 2000

Marsh, C. Making Russian Democracy Work: Social Capital, Economic Development, and Democracy. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000

Miller, William, Stephen White and Paul Heywood. Values and Political Change in Postcommunist Europe. Palgrave, 1998

Nagy, Piroska Mohacsi. The Meltdown of the Russian State: The Deformation and Collapse of the State in Russia. Edward Elgar, 2000

Pickvance, Katy. Democracy and Environmental Movements in Eastern Europe. Westview, 1998

Pravda, Alex and Jan Zelonka (ed.). Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe (Oxford Studies in Democratization). Oxford University Press, 2001

Ramet, Sabrina (ed.). The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999

Satter, David. Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. Yale University Press, 2003

Sharlet, Robert. Constitutional Politics in Russia. M.E.Sharpe, 2001

Shenfield, Stephen. Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, and Movements. M.E. Sharpe, 2000

Sperling, Valerie (ed.). Building the Russian State: Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic Governance. Westview Press, 2000

Urban, Michael. Cultures of power in post-Communist Russia : an analysis of elite political discourse. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Weigle, Marcia. Russia’s Liberal Project. State-Society Relations in the Transition from Communism. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000

White, Stephen. Russia’s New Politics: The Management of a Post-Communist Society. Cambridge University Press, 2000

Section 3. Economic issues

Aslund, Anders (ed.). Market Socialism or Restoration of Capitalism? Cambridge University Press, 1992

Behrend, Hanna (ed.). German Unification: The Destruction of an Economy. L.: Pluto Press, 1995

Berglof, Eric and Romesh Vaitilingam (ed.). Stuck in Transit: Rethinking Russian Economic Reform. Center for Economic Policy Research, 2000

Brady, Rose. Kapitalizm: Russia’s Struggle to Free Its Economy. Yale University Press, 2000

Collins, Susan and Ani Rodrik. Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the World Economy. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1991

Estrin, Saul, Kirsty Hughes and Sarah Todd. Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: Multinationals in Transition. Pinter Publishers, 1997

Freeland, Chrystia. Sale of the Century: Russia’s Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism. Doubleday Canada, 2000

“From Plan to Market. World Development Report 1996.” The World Bank – Oxford University Press, 1996

Gustafson, Thane. Capitalism Russian-Style. Cambridge University Press, 1999

Hoffman, David. The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. Public Affairs Press, 2003

Kaufman, Robert, Stephan Haggard and Janos Kornai. Reforming the State: Fiscal and Welfare Reform in Post-Socialist Countries. Cambridge University Press, 2001

Kolodko, Grzegosz. Post-Communist Transition: The Thorny Road. University of Rochester Press, 2000

Kornai, Janos. Highways and Byways: Studies on Reform and Post-Communist Transition. MIT Press, 1995

Logue, John, Sergey Plekhanov and John Simmons (ed.). Transforming Russian Enterprises: From State Control to Employee Ownership. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995

Puffer, Sheila, Daniel McCarthy and Alexander Naumov. The Russian Capitalist Experiment. From State-owned Organizations to Entrepreneurships. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000

Smith, Alan. The Return to Europe. The Reintegration of Eastern Europe into the European Economy. Macmillan Press, 2000

Woodruff, David. Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism. Cornell University Press, 1999

Zwass, Adam. Incomplete Revolutions. The Successes and Failures of Capitalist Transition Strategies in Post-Communist Economies. Armonk: M.E.Sharpe, 1999

Section 4. Social and Environmental Problems

Adam, Jan. Social Costs of Transformation to a Market Economy in Post-Socialist Countries: The Cases of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1999

Ashwin, Sarah. Russian Workers: The Anatomy of Patience. Manchester University Press, 1999

Ashwin, Sarah (ed.). Gender, State and Society in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. Routledge, 2000

Atal, Yogesh (ed.) Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty. Recent Developments in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Russia, Mongolia. UNESCO – Berghahn Books, 1999

Baker, Susan and Petr Jehlicka (eds.). Dilemmas of Transition: The Environment, Democracy, and Economic Reform in East Central Europe. Frank Cass, 1998

Braithwaite, Jeanine, Christiaan Grootaert and Branko Milanovic. Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries. St.Martin’s Press, 2000

Berry, Ellen E. (ed.). Post-communism and the Body Politic. New York University Press, 1995

Buckley, Mary (ed.). Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia. Cambridge University Press, 1997

Cockerham, William. Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe. Rourledge, 1999

Cook, Linda. The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers’ Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin. Harvard University Press, 1994

Handelman, Stephen. Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya. Yale University Press, 1997

Powell, David. The Russian Health Care Crisis: History, Evaluation, and Recommendations. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 2001

Remington, Thomas. The politics of inequality in Russia. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Webster, William (ed.). Russian Organized Crime and Corruption: Putin’s Challenge. Washington: CSIS, 2000