Vladimir Putin has emerged as one of the key leaders of the twenty-first century. However, he is also recognized as one of the most divisive. Abroad, his assertion of Russia’s…

A landmark analysis of Putin’s presidency, neither condemning nor praising but providing a sober evaluation of how Russia changed under Putin, and how the world began to come to terms…

The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, in October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. In this book, the author examines…

Fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Russia over the last decade, the fifth edition of this classic text builds on the strengths of previous editions to…

An exploration of the Soviet system, from its rise in 1919 to its collapse in 1991. The book is divided into five parts, which focus on aspects of Soviet politics…

This political biography of Vladimir Putin builds on the strengths of the previous volumes by the same author to provide the most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his…

Bringing together a range of specialists, the book provides a combination of original research with fundamental questions about why states stay together, and above all why sometimes they fall apart…

In Developments in Russian Politics 9 an international team of experts provide a comprehensive and critical discussion of the country’s most recent developments, offering substantive coverage of the key areas…