Recently added articles from Social Research:
Endangered scholars worldwide.(scholars arrested)
Mar 22, 2009; ... CHINA LIU XIAOBO is a prominent writer and human rights advocate who wrote for the "China in Transition" issue of Social Research (73:1, 2006). Liu was arrested on December 8, 2008 on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power" after coauthoring Charter 08, a declaration ...
Editor's introduction.
Mar 22, 2009; ... IN KEEPING WITH OUR POLICY TO PUBLISH RECURRING ISSUES ON PLACES in the world undergoing or recently having undergone marked changes (see our issues on China [Volume 73:1, Spring 2006] and South Africa [Volume 72:3, Fall 2005]), this issue looks at current aspects of the Russian state and ...
Why market reform succeeded and democracy failed in Russia.
Mar 22, 2009; ... POSTCOMMUNIST TRANSFORMATION HAS LED TO VARIED RESULTS. * Today, all the countries in Central and Eastern Europe, from the three Baltic states to Slovenia, Romania, and Bulgaria, have become market economies with predominate private ownership. They are also democracies. Ten countries in ...
The "other" Russian economy: how everyday firms view the rules of the game in Russia.
Mar 22, 2009; ... A NEW NARRATIVE HAS COME TO DOMINATE VISIONS OF BUSINESS-STATE relations in Putin's Russia. * This view depicts the rise of Russia as a natural resource state bent on using its oil, gas, and mineral fiches to restore Russia's place in the world and to ensure high levels of economic growth ...
Russia: a petrostate in a time of worldwide economic recession and political turmoil.
Mar 22, 2009; ... THE SUDDENNESS AND THE RANGE OF THE ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL THAT began in 2008 has hit most of the world by surprise, Russia included. How promising the world economic situation and globalization all seemed to be as recently as the summer of 2008. But like the sweep of the ocean tides, no ...