Most Recent Articles from Social Research

• Endangered scholars worldwide 

  CHINA CHINA LIU XIAOBO is a prominent writer and human rights advocate who wrote for the "China in Transition" issue of Social Research (73:1,...

  03/22/09 by John Clegg · More from publication

• Editor's introduction 

  IN KEEPING WITH OUR POLICY TO PUBLISH RECURRING ISSUES ON PLACES in the world undergoing or recently having undergone marked changes (see our...

  03/22/09 by Arien Mack · More from publication

• Why market reform succeeded and democracy failed in Russia 

  POSTCOMMUNIST TRANSFORMATION HAS LED TO VARIED RESULTS. * Today, all the countries in Central and Eastern Europe, from the three Baltic states to...

  03/22/09 by Anders Aslund · More from publication

• The "other" Russian economy: how everyday firms view the rules of the game in Russia 

  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...

  03/22/09 by Timothy Frye; Andrei Yakovlev; Yevgeny Yasin · More from publication

• Russia: a petrostate in a time of worldwide economic recession and political turmoil 

  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...

  03/22/09 by Marshall I. Goldman · More from publication

• "Stop the invasion!": money, patriotism, and conspiracy in Russia 

  The practices of conspiracy theory form a tensely articulated pact with therapeutic culture through the logics of stress, trauma, injustice,...

  03/22/09 by Sergei Alex. Oushakine · More from publication

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