The only Reader on post-Soviet Russian politics, this important book brings together the best published work from a wide variety of sources. Unusually for a Reader, it also includes many up-to-date, specially commissioned contributions.  Meer

The most comprehensive analysis of new thinking in Soviet politics yet undertaken, embracing writing on the Soviet economy, the political system, the national question, foreign policy and the future of world communism.  Meer

Mackenzie Prize for Best Political Science Book of the Year 2010The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century.  Meer