Select Bibliography on Post-Communism
Section 1. General
Andor, Laszlo and Martin Summers. Market Failure. Eastern Europe’s ‘Economic Miracle’. L.: Pluto
Press, 1998
Cohen, Stephen. Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia. W.W.Norton,
2000
Crawford, Beverly (ed.). Markets, States, and Democracy: The Political Economy of Post-Communist
Transformation. Boulder: Westview, 1995
Dahrendorf, Ralf. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Times Books, 1990
Dallago, Bruno, Horst Brezinski and Wladimir Andreef. Convergence and System Change. The
Convergence Hypothesis in the Light of Transition in Eastern Europe. Dartmouth Publishing, 1992
Eyal, Gil, Eleanor Townsley and Ivan Szelenyi. Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: The New Ruling
Elites in Eastern Europe. London: Verso, 2001
Gowan, Peter. The Global Gamble: Washington’s Faustian Bid for World Dominance. Verso, 1999
Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press, 2005
Holmes, Leslie. Post-Communism: An Introduction. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997
Isham, Heyward and Natan Shklyar (ed.). Russia’s Fate Through Russian Eyes: Perspectives of a New
Generation. Westview Press, 2000
Katsiaficas, George (ed.). After the Fall. 1989 and the Future of Freedom. Routledge, 2001
Klein, Lawrence and Marshall Pomer (ed.) The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry. Stanford University
Press, 2001
Lane, David. The Rise and Fall of State Socialism. Industrial Society and the Socialist State. Polity Press,
1996
Lindblom, Charles. The Market System. What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make Of It. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2001
Marquand, David. The New Reckoning. Capitalism, States and Citizens. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997
McBride, William L. Philosophical Reflections on the Changes in Eastern Europe. Lanham: Rowman and
Littlefield, 1999
Nolan, Peter. China’s Rise, Russia’s Fall: Politics, Economics and Planning in the Transition from
Stalinism. New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1995
Offe, Claus. Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience. Cambridge: the
MIT Press, 1997
Pickles, John and Adrian Smith (ed.). Theorising Transition. The Political Economy of Post-Communist
Transformations. L.: Routledge, 1998
Reddaway, Peter, and Dmitry Glinsky. The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms : Market Bolshevism Against
Democracy. Washington: US Institute of Peace, 2001
Smith, Graham. The Post-Soviet States: Mapping the Politics of Transition. L.: Arnold, 1999
Staniszkis, Jadwiga. Post-Communism: The Emerging Enigma. Warsaw: Institute of Political Studies,
1999
Stiglitz, Joseph. Globalization and its Discontents. W.W.Norton, 2002
Szacki, Jerzy. Liberalism after Communism. Central European University Press, 1995
Teeple, Gary. Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform: Into the Twenty-First Century. Aurora:
Garamond Press, 2000
Van Brabant, Jozef M.. The Political Economy of Transition. Coming to Grips with History and
Methodology. L.: Routledge, 1998
Verdery, Katherine. What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? Princeton University Press, 1996
Von Beyme, Klaus. Transition to Democracy in Eastern Europe. L.: Macmillan, 1996
White, Stephen. Communism and its Collapse. Routledge, 2001
Webber, Mark. The International Politics of Russia and the Successor States. Manchester University
Press, 1996
Wedel, Janine. Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe. New York:
St.Martin’s Press, 2000
Section 2. Politics, the State, Problems of Democracy
Alexeev, Mikhail A. Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled.
Longman-Macmillan, 1999.
Allensworth, Wayne. The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia.
Rowman and Littlefield, 1998
Baker, Peter and Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution.
Scribner’s: 2005
Berdahl, Daphne, Matti Bunzl and Martha Lampland (ed.). Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition
in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. University of Michigan Press, 2000
Colton, Timothy. Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in Russia. Harvard University
Press, 2000
Cook, Linda, Mitchell Orenstein and Marilyn Reuschemeyer (ed.) Left Parties and Social Policy in
Postcommunist Europe. Westview Press, 1999
Crnobrnja, Mihailo. The Yugoslav Drama. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996
Dannreuther, Roland and Luke March (ed.). Russia and Islam : state, society and radicalism. London,
New York : Routledge, 2010
Dawisha, Karen and Bruce Parrott. Russia and the New States of Eurasia: The Politics of Upheaval.
Cambridge University Press, 1994
Dawisha, Karen and Bruce Parrott (ed.). The Consolidation of Democracy in East-Central Europe.
Cambridge University Press, 1997
Eckstein, Harry, Frederick Fleron, Erik Hoffmann, Gabriel Almond, and William Reisinger (ed.). Can
Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State-Society Relations. Rowman and
Littlefield Publishers, 1998
Einhorn, Barbara, Mary Kaldor and Zdenek Kavan (ed.). Citizenship and Democratic Control in
Contemporary Europe. Edward Elgar, 1996
Elster, Jon, Claus Offe, and Ulrich K.Preuss. Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies.
Rebuilding the Ship at Sea. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Gill, Graeme and Roger Marwick. Russia’s Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin. Oxford
University Press, 2000
Goldman, Marshall. Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia. Oxford University Press, 2010
Glad, Betty and Eric Shiraev(ed.). The Russian Transformation: Political, Sociological, and Psychological
Aspects. St. Martin’s Press, 1999
Grey, Robert D. (ed.) Democratic Theory and Post-Communist Change. Prentice Hall, 1997
Hosking, Geoffrey and Robert Service. Russian Nationalism Past and Present. L.: Palgrave, 1998
Jack, Andrew: Inside Putin’s Russia: Can there be Reform Without Democracy? Oxford University Press,
2004
Kagarlitsky, Boris. Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: Neo-Liberal Autocracy. Pluto’s Press, 2002
Khazanov, Anatoly. After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of
Independent States. University of Wisconsin Press, 1995
Klebnikov, Paul and Drenka Willen. Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of
Russia. Harcourt Brace, 2000
Lester, Jeremy: Modern Tsars and Princes: The Struggle for Hegemony in Russia. L.: Verso, 1995
Lieven, Anatol. Chechnya, Tombstone of Russian Power. Yale University Press, 1998
Lukin, Alexander. The Political Culture of the “Russian Democrats”. Oxford University Press, 2000
Marsh, C. Making Russian Democracy Work: Social Capital, Economic Development, and Democracy.
Edwin Mellen Press, 2000
Miller, William, Stephen White and Paul Heywood. Values and Political Change in Postcommunist
Europe. Palgrave, 1998
Nagy, Piroska Mohacsi. The Meltdown of the Russian State: The Deformation and Collapse of the State
in Russia. Edward Elgar, 2000
Pickvance, Katy. Democracy and Environmental Movements in Eastern Europe. Westview, 1998
Pravda, Alex and Jan Zelonka (ed.). Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe (Oxford Studies in
Democratization). Oxford University Press, 2001
Ramet, Sabrina (ed.). The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. The Pennsylvania
State University Press, 1999
Satter, David. Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. Yale University Press, 2003
Sharlet, Robert. Constitutional Politics in Russia. M.E.Sharpe, 2001
Shenfield, Stephen. Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, and Movements. M.E. Sharpe, 2000
Sperling, Valerie (ed.). Building the Russian State: Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic
Governance. Westview Press, 2000
Urban, Michael. Cultures of power in post-Communist Russia : an analysis of elite political discourse.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
Weigle, Marcia. Russia’s Liberal Project. State-Society Relations in the Transition from Communism.
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000
White, Stephen. Russia’s New Politics: The Management of a Post-Communist Society. Cambridge
University Press, 2000
Section 3. Economic issues
Aslund, Anders (ed.). Market Socialism or Restoration of Capitalism? Cambridge University Press, 1992
Behrend, Hanna (ed.). German Unification: The Destruction of an Economy. L.: Pluto Press, 1995
Berglof, Eric and Romesh Vaitilingam (ed.). Stuck in Transit: Rethinking Russian Economic Reform.
Center for Economic Policy Research, 2000
Brady, Rose. Kapitalizm: Russia’s Struggle to Free Its Economy. Yale University Press, 2000
Collins, Susan and Ani Rodrik. Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the World Economy.
Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1991
Estrin, Saul, Kirsty Hughes and Sarah Todd. Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe:
Multinationals in Transition. Pinter Publishers, 1997
Freeland, Chrystia. Sale of the Century: Russia’s Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism. Doubleday
Canada, 2000
“From Plan to Market. World Development Report 1996.” The World Bank – Oxford University Press,
1996
Gustafson, Thane. Capitalism Russian-Style. Cambridge University Press, 1999
Hoffman, David. The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia. Public Affairs Press, 2003
Kaufman, Robert, Stephan Haggard and Janos Kornai. Reforming the State: Fiscal and Welfare Reform in
Post-Socialist Countries. Cambridge University Press, 2001
Kolodko, Grzegosz. Post-Communist Transition: The Thorny Road. University of Rochester Press, 2000
Kornai, Janos. Highways and Byways: Studies on Reform and Post-Communist Transition. MIT Press,
1995
Logue, John, Sergey Plekhanov and John Simmons (ed.). Transforming Russian Enterprises: From State
Control to Employee Ownership. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995
Puffer, Sheila, Daniel McCarthy and Alexander Naumov. The Russian Capitalist Experiment. From Stateowned Organizations to Entrepreneurships. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2000
Smith, Alan. The Return to Europe. The Reintegration of Eastern Europe into the European Economy.
Macmillan Press, 2000
Woodruff, David. Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism. Cornell University Press,
1999
Zwass, Adam. Incomplete Revolutions. The Successes and Failures of Capitalist Transition Strategies in
Post-Communist Economies. Armonk: M.E.Sharpe, 1999
Section 4. Social and Environmental Problems
Adam, Jan. Social Costs of Transformation to a Market Economy in Post-Socialist Countries: The Cases
of Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. New York: St.Martin’s Press, 1999
Ashwin, Sarah. Russian Workers: The Anatomy of Patience. Manchester University Press, 1999
Ashwin, Sarah (ed.). Gender, State and Society in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia. Routledge, 2000
Atal, Yogesh (ed.) Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty. Recent Developments in Hungary,
Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Russia, Mongolia. UNESCO – Berghahn Books, 1999
Baker, Susan and Petr Jehlicka (eds.). Dilemmas of Transition: The Environment, Democracy, and
Economic Reform in East Central Europe. Frank Cass, 1998
Braithwaite, Jeanine, Christiaan Grootaert and Branko Milanovic. Poverty and Social Assistance in
Transition Countries. St.Martin’s Press, 2000
Berry, Ellen E. (ed.). Post-communism and the Body Politic. New York University Press, 1995
Buckley, Mary (ed.). Post-Soviet Women: From the Baltic to Central Asia. Cambridge University Press,
1997
Cockerham, William. Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe. Rourledge, 1999
Cook, Linda. The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers’ Politics from
Brezhnev to Yeltsin. Harvard University Press, 1994
Handelman, Stephen. Comrade Criminal: Russia’s New Mafiya. Yale University Press, 1997
Powell, David. The Russian Health Care Crisis: History, Evaluation, and Recommendations. New York:
Twentieth Century Fund, 2001
Remington, Thomas. The politics of inequality in Russia. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
Webster, William (ed.). Russian Organized Crime and Corruption: Putin’s Challenge. Washington: CSIS,
2000