...This chapter explores changes in the history of Russia's women and of gender relations following the collapse of the Soviet Union. It begins by discussing how Cold War politics shaped the field of Russian and Soviet women's history. In particular, it considers the challenges faced by scholars...

...This chapter examines international adoption from Russia, which is a major source of children for Western Europeans and North Americans. In Russia, as in Brazil, cases of child trafficking and abuse involving foreign adoptive parents and adoption agencies recently captured media attention...

...This afterword examines the question of whether Russia is part of that entity known as “the West” or “Western civilization.” It argues that Russia developed as an alternative (to the Western) Christian Orthodox civilization. On the main issues of existence it never offered different solutions...

...China is making a major effort to improve relations with Russian and the countries of the EU. So far, it has been successful in Southern Europe and in some limited ventures with Russia. Its relationship with Russia, however, has a long history rife with conflict – so there are limits to how close...

... characterized post-Soviet politics in Russia and Ukraine and describes how the countries’ previous electoral systems operated in such contexts. This discussion lays the groundwork for the contention that both prospective democrats and aspiring autocrats had reason to view closed-list proportional representation...

...Since one expected consequence of the closed-list PR systems in Russia and Ukraine was limiting the influence of more independently minded legislators, chapter 2 examines the degree to which different parties nominated those incumbents commonly identified as the most unruly: district deputies...

... insurgencies, the efforts of the United States and China to encourage and provide better security in the region, and how the Central Asian countries themselves view their role in international politics and the global economy. It also covers key outside powers with influence in the region; Russia, with its...

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...This chapter situates the cumulative cycle of democratizations and de-democratizations in the macro-historical perspective of Russia's long-running modernizing efforts. Beyond the polemical élan of Russian intelligentsia, the chapter develops an alternative argument, which mainly derives from...

...This chapter argues that Russia can and should fit into a wider Europe, and that this will be good for both the Russians themselves and for other Europeans. In doing so the chapter examines what went wrong in the relations between Russia and the West over the first two decades after the end...

...This chapter reports on the linkages between the Socialist Party in New York to the new Bolshevik government in Russia. The prominence of individual Jews in the new government had drawn much comment from observers in the United States and Europe. The article names some prominent activists...

...The introduction reviews extant literature on electoral politics in both democratic and contemporary authoritarian regimes to highlight the degree to which the specific electoral system changes under investigation—the adoption of closed-list proportional representation in Russia and Ukraine...

... the conventional assertion that placing governors on the ruling party’s list increased the party’s regional vote shares and a previously unconsidered hypothesis that United Russia’s decision not to nominate certain governors could also work to the party’s advantage, thanks to the system of presidential...

...This chapter describes the legal treatment of social parents in Russia, examining the existing laws governing social parents, critiquing their efficacy, and offering new insights regarding Russia’s treatment of social parenthood. It addresses three common contexts of social parenthood: same-sex...

...States and international organizations (IOs) support PMC organizing. We document the institutional actors that provide clout to the PMC TANs, namely Russia and the Orthodox and Catholic churches, though we also examine their ties to multiple other states and religious institutions, including the US...

... our perspectives of possibilities for alimony in the United States and enrich any discussion of alimony reform. This chapter takes a brief look at the law of alimony in a few select countries (Ireland, Malaysia, Russia, Samoa) and at the Principles of European Family Law regarding Divorce...

...Party Politics in Russia and Ukraine examines how political parties navigate major election reforms by comparing two strikingly similar electoral system changes that occurred at roughly the same time in two states with diverging regime trajectories, Russia and Ukraine...

...In this book a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from around the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation in Russia. The book makes clear that neither politics nor economics alone holds the key to Russia's future...

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