Russia. A History

M. McFaul, Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change (Ithaca, NY, 2001), political overview from perestroika to 1996 election.

P. Nagy, The Meltdown of the Russian State (Cheltenham, 2000), detailed critique of politics and economy policy in the 1990s.

R. Sakwa, Gorbachev and his Reforms, 1985–1990 (New York, 1991), positive assessment of Gorbachev as reformer.

A. Shleifer and D. Treisman, Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia (Cambridge, 2000), vigorous defence of economic policies advocated by outside consultants.

G. Smith (ed.), The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union (London, 1990), wide-ranging coverage.

S. S. Smith, The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma (Princeton, NJ, 2001), on presidential and Duma politics in the late 1990s.

S. L. Solnick, Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions (Cambridge, Mass., 1999), shows how decentralization enabled local officials to divert assets and resources to own ends.

K. Stoner-Weiss, Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge), on the complex interrelationship of the centre and provinces under Yeltsin.

L. M. Sundstrom, Funding Civil Society: Foreign Assistance and NGO Development in Russia (Stanford, Calif., 2006), study of selected NGOs and the role of foreign assistance.

R. G. Suny, The Revenge of the Past (Stanford, Calif., 1994), on nationalism and the demise of the Soviet system.

J. Wedel, Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe, 1989–1998

(New York, 1998), trenchant critique of Western aide to the former Eastern bloc countries.

S. White, Gorbachev and After (3rd edn., Cambridge, 1992), short narrative of perestroika.

B. Yeltsin, Against the Grain (London, 1990), autobiography, with revealing insights into the author’s rise to power.

W. Zimmerman, The Russian People and Foreign Policy: Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives, 1993–2000 ( Princeton, NJ, 2002), on the contrast between the international values of élites and the isolationist indifference of lower classes.

15. REBUILDING RUSSIA

P. Baev (ed.), Russian Energy Policy and Military Power: Putin’s Quest for Greatness (London, 2008), essays examining hydrocarbon revenues and their impact on military power and reform.

T. J. Colton and S. Holmes (eds.), The State after Communism: Governance in the New Russia (Lanham, Md., 2006), examination of Putin’s emphasis on the state and effective governance.

———and M. McFaul, Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000 (Washington, DC, 2003), sophisticated analysis of the Duma and presidential elections which inaugurated the Putin era.

D. R. Herspring, Putin’s Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain (Lanham, Md., 2003), articles sketching Russia at the start of the new millennium.

R. Kanet (ed.), Russia: Re-emerging Great Power (New York, 2007), essays on Russian foreign policy under Putin.

A. Ledeneva, How Russia Really Works; The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business

(Ithaca, NY, 2006), modus operandi of politics and business in the post-Soviet era.

A. Politkovskaya, A Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin’s Russia (New York, 2007), report by investigative journalist whose murder in 2006 became a cause célèbre and ignited much criticism of the Putin regime.

A. Pravda (ed.), Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective (Oxford, 2005), essays on Putin’s first term.

V. Putin, First Person (New York, 2000), political statement in first presidential campaign.