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July 27, 1997   

This Date's Issues:   1088  1089  

Johnson's Russia List
#1088
27 July 1997
djohnson@cdi.org [info@cdi.org until July 28]

[Note from David Johnson:
1. Reuter: TV lashes out at Russian privatisation bid winner.
2. Gary Kern: How to Get Rid of Lenin.
3. From InterPress Service: Andrei Ivanov and Judith Perera, 
RUSSIA: Sick And Suicidal Russian Population In Decline.

4. Reuter: Zyuganov predicts wave of Russian protest in autumn.
5. The Independent on Sunday (UK): Phil Reeves, Nationalists 
smoke themselves to death for Mother Russia.

6. CNN: From Marxism 101 to Capitalism 101. Russian university 
changes its name, curriculum. (Ex-Lumumba University).

7. Recent and forthcoming books on Russia. (DJ: A long list,
including works of a number of JRL recipients).]


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#1
TV lashes out at Russian privatisation bid winner
By Alastair Macdonald 
MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuter) - Russia's top television
station, ORT, launched a bitter attack on Saturday on a Russian-German
consortium which won a quarter share of the state telecoms holding company in
Moscow's biggest privatisation. 
The astonishingly outspoken assault during a current affairs programme
appeared to be one more indication of growing rifts over the division of
state assets among the wealthy magnates who bankrolled President Boris
Yeltsin's re-election last year. 
Well-known ORT presenter Sergei Dorenko devoted 20 minutes of his weekly show
to a denunciation of former minister Vladimir Potanin and his associates in
the Cyprus-registered consortium which on Friday won 25 percent of telecoms
holding Svyazinvest. 
A rival bid including Spanish telecommunications group Telefonica de Espana
SA <TEF.MC> would have invested much more in improving Russia's outdated
telephone network, Dorenko said. 
A government source said on Friday that a driving force behind the losing bid
had been associates of Boris Berezovsky, a tycoon currently on secondment to
the Kremlin Security Council. 
Berezovsky's business empire includes a big stake in ORT. 
Kremlin sources say a group of business leaders who buried their rivalries to
finance Yeltsin's election campaign last July has broken up into feuds over
who gets what privatised assets. 
Previous state auctions, often run by banks on behalf of the state, have
resulted in groups close to those banks winning with bids well below what
analysts felt to be a fair market price. 
However, the Svyazinvest auction, which will raise $1.875 billion, appeared
to have been more competitive and was settled well above the reserve price of
$1.18 billion. 
The rival bidder, the Dutch TeleFAM, offered $1.71 billion. 
Russian news agencies said the group included Spain's Telefonica de Espana
SA, Russia's Alfa-Bank and the international investment bank CS First Boston.
Industry sources said Russia's Most-Bank may also have taken part. 
ORT's Dorenko said the winning consortium, which he alleged might use its
Cypriot registration to avoid Russian taxes, would invest less than the
losers in Russia's telephone system. 
"It's totally obvious that investors from the offshore company Unexim are in
no way strategic investors," he said, although he gave no detailed
explanation of this opinion. 
Cypriot-based Mustcom includes Uneximbank, Russia's third biggest bank headed
by Potanin, and Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (DMG), the London-based investment
banking arm of Germany's Deutsche Bank AG, and Moscow investment bank
Renaissance Capital. 
Dorenko described some of the financial backers of the group as "seasoned
speculators who have never for a moment been professionally involved in
telecommunications." 
He alleged that Alfred Kokh, the liberal deputy prime minister who runs the
privatisation programme, systematically favoured Potanin, who was a first
deputy premier until a cabinet reshuffle in March. 
Accusing Potanin of abusing state sell-offs, Dorenko said he was linked to
former deputy finance minister Andrei Vavilov. 
Vavilov was cited by the head of the central bank this month in allegations
about the disappearance of huge sums of government money. Vavilov has denied
the allegations. 

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#2
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 17:47:36 -0700
From: Gary Kern <gkern@ucr.campus.mci.net>
Subject: How to Get Rid of Lenin

Boris Kagarlitsky's long essay in JRL #1087 on "Yeltsin and the
Mausoleum" demonstrates how prolonged and agonized has been the Lenin
question. Clearly Russia cannot move ahead into the future until it
jettisons the garbage of the past. Imagine if we had a monument to King
George III in place of the Lincoln Memorial. Or even better, suppose
Berlin kept a museum with the moustache of Hitler and his right arm
fixed in a salute, both laid out on a beautiful swastika flag and
guarded reverentially by goose-stepping troopers, and newlywed Germans
rushed to observe the display before starting their honeymoon. You'd
have to wonder about the strength of the German government if it feared
to upset neo-Nazis by removing the Führer's holy relics. So you have to
wonder why Yeltsin can't get rid of that ugly little mummy in Red
Square.

Here's my proposal for dumping it:
1. Close the Mausoleum on Tuesday for repairs.
2. Bury Lenin in Ulyanovsk on Wednesday (or melt down the wax effigy and
make memorial candles). Take a video of the event to forestall later
claims of resurrection.
3. Renovate the interior of the Mausoleum, transforming it into a
"Museum of Progress." Fill it with displays of great Russian scientists,
exhibits of the space program, snazzy interactive models of the latest
technology--and plan to update the site often, like a website.
4. Announce on Friday that Lenin has been buried and the Museum of
Progress will open the next day. Give black-and-white copies of the
burial video to the media, plus dazzling color commercials for the
exciting new museum.
5. Appear on Saturday at the Grand Opening (with bodyguards) for a
photo-op. Counter complaints from the Old Guard with the question: 
"Are you against progress?" Stand next to a little kid who is operating
a virtual-reality spaceship and pat him on the head. It worked for
Stalin, it works for Clinton, and it will work for you.

If someone in Moscow on the Yeltsin team should happen to read this
proposal, please pass it on to Boris Nik. We all want democracy in
Russia, but a costly national referendum on the founder of Gulag is
ridiculous! Drop-kick him out of Red Square!

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#3
>From InterPress Service
RUSSIA: Sick And Suicidal Russian Population In Decline
By Andrei Ivanov and Judith Perera

MOSCOW, Jul 23 (IPS) - The crashing decline in the physical
and mental health of the Russian male in the post Cold War era
is literally sending millions to an early grave.
Western-style 'reform' has ravaged the old Soviet social services,
overseen the return of life-threatening poverty to a once mighty
superpower and dragged its life expectancy figures down to African
levels.
In the 1960s, Russia was a par with other developed states
in terms of life expectancy, says professor Leonid Rybakovsky,
head of the demography centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
''Today, Russian men are 135th in the world, and women, 100th
-- similar to the poor African states,'' he says. ''But not even
in Africa is there such a difference in life expectancy between
men and women''.
So bad is the situation that nearly half the sixteen year olds
in Russia today will die before they reach pensionable age.
Russia's State Statistics Committee has forecast a continuing
decline in the country's population in the foreseeable future,
with the total expected to fall by 4.2 percent from 147.1 million
at the beginning of this year to 141 million in 2010.
Immigration, mostly from still more troubled nations of the
former Soviet Union is thought likely to exceed emigration over
the period, but the net inflow is not expected to outweigh the
natural decrease resulting from the low birth rate and the high
mortality rate.
Average life expectancy is forecast at 65 years in 2005, the
same as at present, rising to 66.2 years in 2010. Women's life
expectancy, however, is expected to be 13 years greater than
men by then, and there will be up to 11 million more women than
men compared with an excess of 9.1 million at present.
The health of Russian schoolchildren has deteriorated in recent
years, according to Yekaterina Lakhova, chairwoman of the
presidential commission on issues of women, family and demography.
The deterioration is greatest for teenagers. Since 1991 blood-
related
illnesses have increased by 160 percent and endocrine and metabolic
disorders by 120 percent among children aged 15-17.
''Only 10 percent of school-leavers can be described as healthy,''
she says. Some 50 percent of children suffer from various ailments
and 40 percent are chronically ill.
Lakhova is especially concerned about the rise of infections,
in particular those connected with poor living conditions.
Tuberculosis rose 70 percent in the period from 1990 to 1995. The number of
cases of syphilis increased by a factor of 49 among teena
gers, and by a factor of 33 among adults.
The chairman of the Duma health committee, Nikolai Gerasimenko
says the notion of national security loses its meaning if there
are no guarantees of security and quality of life for each
individual.
''There is an exceptionally harmful environment in Russia today,''
he warns. ''Some 70 percent of the population live in polluted
cities, 50 percent of the people drink water that is below all
public health norms, over six million people have been exposed
to radiation.
In addition, alcohol, drugs, smoking and heavy emotional stresses,
all rooted in economic difficulties, combine to reduce the life
span of 70 percent of the people.'' He notes that in 1897, trends
suggested that Russia's population would grow to 400 mill
ion within a century, some 2.7 times the actual figure.
Rybakovsky says the natural loss of the population has been
3.5 million people, or 2.5 percent ''a staggering figure in
peacetime''.
There are two main reasons: a falling birth rate and a rapidly
rising death rate. While the former is common to all developed
countries, the latter is not. A new term has been coined to
describe the death rate -- super-mortality.
''It means that the vast majority of the deceased are people
in their prime,'' he explains.
As a result, Russian society is fast growing older. Demographers
say that there is one non-working person per 1.3 workers, a unique
index for a developed country. The correlation may be 1:1 in
2003-2005.
Rybakovsky says the decrease is most evident in central Russia,
the agricultural 'golden ring' which is the main habitat of ethnic
Russians. And the depopulation is of a protracted nature.
''We will not see the end of it either in 2000 or 2005. The
U.N. indicates that if the trend persists, Russia's population
will have decreased by 20-30 million people in 50 years' time.
I see two main reasons: the demise of the health system and the
runaway prices.''
He says two main groups comprise up to 75 percent of Russia's
population ''those who have enough money to buy food and nothing
else, and those who do not have enough money to buy even food.''
People were no prepared with the economic changes and stress
plays a large part in the rising death rate.
''The current structure of mortality in Russia is unprecedented
in human history: a third of the deceased in any given year,
i.e. 672,000 people, die before they reach pensionable age. Of
that number, 550,000 are men.
''In the past five years, the country lost three million young
men, dozens of times more than the loss of life in the Afghan
and the Chechen wars.'' Rybakovsky says.
''These days, men are dying not of bullets; they die in accidents
and of poisonings and traumas. This index is 4-5 times higher
than in Europe, the US or Japan.''
He is concerned about the new generation who ''prefer low-quality
drink or drugs, rather than Pepsi or Coke''. Russia's death rate
is higher than the birth rate.
''Russian statistics can give you a heart attack: between 1987
and 1996, the number of yearly births dropped from 2.5 million
to 1.3 million,'' he notes. ''But this is not the worst thing.
The trouble is not the quantity, but the quality of new-borns.''
Currently a third of young men of conscription age cannot be
drafted for health reasons. The figure for 1985 was only five
percent.
Fifteen percent of draftees are undernourished, 12 percent
are alcoholics and eight percent are drug addicts.
According to minister of health Tatyana Dmitriyeva, only 10
percent of teenagers can be described as healthy. The number
of socially-significant diseases is growing.
Some 75 percent of girls have chronic diseases. Russia is also
seeing an increase in mental illness: 31.5 percent of teenagers
have psychic disorders, and 33 percent are mentally deficient
or psychopathic.
AIDS is a further threat with 1,500 new HIV cases registered
last year. The Health Ministry expects this figure to grow to
800,000 by the end of this century.
If present trends continue, says Dmitriyeva, only 54 percent
of teenagers who are under 16 now will live to pensionable age.

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#4
Zyuganov predicts wave of Russian protest in autumn
MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuter) - Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov forecast
that parliament would overturn President Boris Yeltsin's veto of a
controversial bill on religion and warned on Saturday of a wave of popular
protests this autumn. 
Zyuganov, defeated in last July's presidential election, told Interfax news
agency that the veto of the religion bill and of parliament's version of a
new Land Code last week showed Yeltsin had "begun a new stage in his campaign
against Russia." 
But the Communist leader, who has abandoned his party's Soviet-era atheism in
favour of a staunchly nationalistic defence of the Russian Orthodox Church,
said he was sure the Communist-led State Duma lower house of parliament would
overturn Yeltsin's veto on the religion bill. 
The president ruled that the bill, which would discriminate against religions
not registered with the Soviet authorities 15 years ago, was incompatible
with the constitution and Russia's international commitments on human rights.
The bill was criticised by the U.S. Senate and the Vatican who argued it
would not only limit the development of extremist sects but also harm the
likes of the Roman Catholic church and protestant creeds. 
But the Orthodox Church, as well as Russia's Moslem and Buddhist leaders,
have criticised Yeltsin's veto. 
In contrast to the religion bill veto, Zyuganov said the Duma would find it
extremely difficult to overturn Yeltsin's veto on parliament's version of the
new Land Code. 
Nonetheless, the Communists would block any attempt to introduce a free
market in land. 
"The president has already sold off two thirds of the country, with two
rounds of privatisation. Now, by preparing a third division of property, he
wants to deal even in land, but we won't let this pass," Zyuganov said. 
The president rejected the Land Code because it did not allow the free sale
and purchase of land, something the government believes is necessary to
develop Russian agriculture but to which communists and nationalists are
bitterly opposed. 
"The Communist party and (its allies in) the National Patriotic Union of
Russia are now considering a plan to carry out in the autumn a general
protest action against Mr. Yeltsin's programme, which is ruinous for the
country," Zyuganov told Interfax. 
He gave no details. Several million people turned out across Russia for
strikes and demonstrations on March 27 but the effect was unclear. The new
government has since paid off huge arrears on pensions and promises to do the
same for public sector wages by the end of the year. 
Zyuganov said his party had gathered three million signatures calling for
Yeltsin to step down. 

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#5
The Independent on Sunday (UK)
27 July 1997
[for personal use only]
Nationalists smoke themselves to death for Mother Russia
And their favourite brand makes big profits for a US firm, reports Phil 
Reeves in Moscow 

IMAGINE you are a tobacco baron. Western markets are stagnant, throttled 
by new laws, lawsuits, and anti-smoking lobbies. So you are hacking a 
path towards the Third World and the former Soviet Union. 
In Russia the market's crowded and you need a new brand. So what do you 
do? Maybe find a rival to the Marlboro Man - a quintessentially American 
Mr Cool who can stalk the billboards in the hope of lassooing millions 
of new smokers in a country which cares less about abstract matters of 
health and the environment than the daily struggle to survive? Or 
perhaps lure them in with a cartoon character like Joe Camel? 
But that's not so easy these days. There was a time when your clients 
were crazy about Americana, but not any more. Cynicism about the West 
has taken root amid the social despair that followed the end of the 
Soviet Union. Nationalist sentiment has uncoiled, a longing to become a 
great Russian empire again. Yet there's also money to be made. Russian 
men are excellent potential clients, though they are dying like flies, 
and have an average life expectancy of only 58. Two out of three smoke. 
Some 250 billion cigarettes are consumed every year; more and more are 
foreign-made. So what do you do? 
The answer for the US tobacco giants, R J Reynolds, was to go native, by 
appealing to the new mood. Manufactured in St Petersburg and released 
nationwide last year, their brand of "Pyotr I" cigarettes - in other 
words, Peter the Great - has taken the lower end of the Russian market 
by storm, becoming one of the top brands in the "economy" sector. Peter 
was, after all, the tsar who popularised smoking; earlier in the 17th 
Century, tobacco had been condemned as "unholy herb" by the Orthodox 
church; smoking was punishable by death or, for the more fortunate, slit 
nostrils. 
The new brand is not subtle. The packet is jet black, decorated with a 
gold double-headed eagle, the national symbol, in which are inset the 
words "Great Russia". The blurb on the back promises to satisfy those 
who "believe in the revival of the traditions and grandeur of the 
Russian lands". 
The company's explanation of its strategy is simple: "Our job is to 
bring to the market something Russians want to buy," said Andre Benoit, 
director of external relations at the St Petersburg plant. 
He believes one should not judge a person by his or her smoke. "It's 
very difficult to say why people make decisions about what they buy. 
General Alexander Lebed, for instance, smokes Camels, and yet he is 
often perceived as a nationalist". 
Others disagree. "This is a blatant attempt to appeal to Russian 
nationalism," said Karen Lewis of the US-based Advocacy Institute, an 
anti- tobacco group. "Tobacco companies study what's going on in 
politics and try to exploit these sentiments." 
Two months ago a rival to Pyotr I appeared on the streets called 
"Imperator" (Emperor). It features a portrait of the last tsar, Nicholas 
II, a figurehead for monarchists and assorted right-wing groups. The 
Russian makers say the former tsar (himself a smoker) now arouses 
negative sentiments among only one per cent of potential consumers. 
A third brand launched this year, Russian-made "Peter the Great" 
cigarettes, are also selling well. "People identify with him as a great 
Russian symbol," explained an industry insider. "Five years ago it would 
have bombed. But now - while the American images are still strong - 
market research shows Russians are looking to their European heritage." 
Ten years ago, this pro-Russian phenonemon would have been unimaginable. 
Soviet cigarettes were seen as evil-smelling and second-rate. Russians 
had already seen clumsy attempts to use their fondness for tobacco to 
foster patriotic impulses. Take, for example, the Belomorkanal, one of 
20 brands of papirosy cigarettes, which looked like roll-your-owns but 
were manufactured. 
Launched in 1933 under Stalin, they commemorated the opening of the 
White Sea - Baltic Sea canal, a project that cost the lives of some 
300,000 of the Gulag prisoners who built it.They are still for sale, 
though no longer popular. 
Now it is Peter the Great, not Stalin who sells cigarettes in Russia. 
You could argue that this is an improvement. A few years ago, tthe newly 
independent former Soviet states were swamped with fake American brands, 
with names like Kennedy, Clinton, and Johnson. Even this month the 
markets of Armenia were stocked with packets invoking the joys of 
democracy and consumerism: New Freedom, Taste of America, American Dream 
and Business Class. 
No holds are barred when it comes to making money in a world which is 
learning to fight back against tobacco. It could be worse. The kids 
behind Russian bike sheds could be smoking Thatchers. 

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#6
CNN
26 July 1997
>From Marxism 101 to Capitalism 101
Russian university changes its name, curriculum
>From Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty 

MOSCOW (CNN) -- The university opened its doors in 1960, at the height 
of the Cold War, providing a training ground for young communists from 
developing countries. 
The terrorist Carlos the Jackal studied at this university, along with 
guerrillas and revolutionaries from Latin America, Africa and Asia. 
It was called Patrice Lumumba University, in honor of a first prime 
minister of the former Zaire, who was killed in a coup blamed on the 
United States. 
Russia's terror university 
Now, with the Cold War over and Russian communism in tatters, the 
institution has a new name: Russian People's Friendship University. And 
students who once were schooled in Marxist philosophy now take courses 
in capitalist business. 
The university is now forced to survive in a free market economy. And 
since it gets only about a third of its budget from the government, most 
of the rest comes from student tuition fees, which run about $2,000 a 
year for international students. 
In order to attract students, the university added new courses and spent 
$350,000 on new equipment, including computers. "We've learned the rules 
of the market economy and adapted as much as you can in Russia, and 
we're doing quite well, especially when compared to other colleges I've 
seen," said the university's Vice Rector Dimitri Bilibin. 
During the days of Soviet communism, two thirds of the university's 
8,000 students were from other countries; now it's just over a quarter. 
But the school's strong academic reputation and diverse student body has 
an added attraction for Russian students. "I'm really interested in 
international relations, that's why I like it here," said one student. 
"A lot of my friends studied here. It's a cool atmosphere." 
And while some graduates fear the fervor of revolution has been lost 
forever, the young people studying at the Russian People's Friendship 
University say living through an evolution is exciting, too. 
  
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#7
Recent and forthcoming books on Russia.
This information is from Amazon Books. (This is not an endorsement).
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Democracy and the Fall of Communism
by George J. Mitchell
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published by Kodansha
Publication date: May 1, 1997
List: $25.00 

War Scare : Nuclear Countdown After the Soviet Fall
by Peter Vincent Pry
Hardcover
Published by Turner Pub
Publication date: April 1, 1997
List: $22.95 

Vodka, Tears, and Lenin's Angel: My Adventures in the 
Wild and Woolly Former Soviet Union
by Jennifer Gould
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published by St Martins Pr (Trade)
Publication date: June 1, 1997

Beyond Borders : How Russia and the United States Form 
Astonishing Mirror Images
by Kathleen Braden, Raymond Krishchyunas,
Russian American Geography pa
Hardcover
Published by MacMillan General Reference
Publication date: June 1997
List: $32.50 

Dead Again : The Russian Intelligentsia After Communism
by Masha Gessen
Paperback, 256 pages
Published by Verso Books
Publication date: June 1, 1997
List: $18.00 

Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, 
Belarus, and Moldova (Democratization and Authoritarianism in 
Postcommunist societi
by Karen Dawisha (Editor), Bruce Parrott (Editor)
Hardcover
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr (Short)
Publication date: July 1997
List: $64.95 

The Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation
by Roger E. Kanet (Editor), Alexander V. Kozhemiakin (Editor)
Hardcover
Published by St Martins Pr (Short)
Publication date: March 1997
List: $65.00 

Labor and Liberalization : Trade Unions in the New Russia
by Linda J. Cook
Paperback, 129 pages
Published by Brookings Inst
Publication date: February 1, 1997
List: $12.95 

A People's Tragedy : A History of the Russian Revolution
by Orlando Figes
Hardcover, 912 pages
Published by Viking Pr
Publication date: March 1, 1997
List: $39.95 

Public Opinion in Postcommunist Russia (Studies in Russian & East 
European History & Society)
by Matthew Wyman
Hardcover
Published by St Martins Pr (Short)
Publication date: January 1997
List: $65.00

The Rebirth of Politics in Russia
by Michael Urban, Vyacheslav Igrunov, Sergei Mitrokhin, miachae Urban
Paperback, 400 pages
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt)
Publication date: June 1, 1997
List: $24.95 

Resurrection : The Struggle for a New Russia
by David Remnick
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published by Random House
Publication date: February 1, 1997
List: $25.95 

Russia : People and Empire 1552-1917
by Geoffrey Hosking
Hardcover, 368 pages
Published by Harvard Univ Pr
Publication date: May 1, 1997
List: $29.95

The Rule of Law and Economic Reform in Russia (John M. Olin Critical 
Issues Series (Cloth))
by Jeffrey D. Sachs (Editor), Katharina Pistor (Editor)
Hardcover
Published by Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Publication date: August 1997
List: $70.00 

Russia's Communists at the Crossroads
by Joan Barth Urban, Valerii D. Solovei
Paperback, 256 pages
Published by Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Publication date: May 1, 1997
List: $28.00 

Russia's Constitutional Revolution: Legal Consciousness and the 
Transition to Democracy 1985-1996
by Robert B. Ahdieh
Paperback, 208 pages
Published by Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Publication date: May 1, 1997
List: $14.95

Soviet History in the Yeltsin Era
by R. W. Davies
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published by St Martins Pr (Short)
Publication date: July 1, 1997
List: $69.95 

Stranded in Moscow; An American's Story of Life in the New Russia
by Rick Furmanek
Hardcover
Published by Square Peg Press
Publication date: April 2, 1997
List: $19.95

Three 'Whys' of the Russian Revolution
by Richard Pipes
Paperback, 84 pages
Published by Vintage Books
Publication date: June 1, 1997
List: $11.00 

Towards a New Social Order in Russia : Transforming Structures and 
Everyday Life
by Timo Piirainen
Hardcover
Published by Dartmouth Pub Co
Publication date: March 1997
List: $63.95 

Beyond the Soviet Union : The Fragmentation of Power
by Max Beloff Beloff (Editor)
Hardcover
Published by Dartmouth Pub Co
Publication date: June 1997
List: $68.95

Constitutional Politics in Russia (The New Russian Political System)
by Robert Sharlet
Hardcover
Published by M E Sharpe
Publication date: August 1997
List: $59.95 

Continuity and Change in Rural Russia : A Geographical Perspective
by Grigory Ioffe, Tatiana Nefedova
Hardcover
Published by Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Publication date: May 1997
List: $60.00 

Dangerous Crossroads : Europe, Russia, and the Future of NATO
by Hall Cardner, Hall Gardner
Hardcover
Published by Praeger Pub Text
Publication date: August 1997
List: $59.00 

The Dark Mirror : American Literary Response to Russia (Comparative 
Cultures and Literatures, Vol. 10)
by Myler Wilkinson
Hardcover
Published by Peter Lang Publishing
Publication date: June 1997
List: $42.95

Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, 
Belarus and Moldova (Democratization and Authoritarianism in 
Post-Communist societi
by Karen Dawisha (Editor), Bruce Parrott (Editor)
Paperback
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt)
Publication date: July 1997
List: $24.95

Echoes of a Native Land : Two Centuries of a Russian Village
by Serge Schmemann
Hardcover, 384 pages
Published by Knopf
Publication date: October 1, 1997
List: $27.50 

Environmental and Housing Movements : Grassroots Experience in Hungary, 
Russia and Estonia
by Katy Lang-Pickvance (Editor), Nick Manning (Editor), Chris Pickvance
Hardcover
Published by Avebury
Publication date: March 1997
List: $72.95 

EXPERIMENTS IN EXPERIMENTS IN COOPERATION: Assessing U.S.-Russian 
Programs in Science and Technology (Russia in Transition Series)
by Glenn E. Schweitzer
*NR Edition 
Hardcover
Published by Twentieth Century Pr
Publication date: March 1997
List: $9.95 

Foreign and Security Policy Decisionmaking Under Yeltsin
by F. Stephen Larrabee, Theodore William Karasik, National Defense rese
*NR Edition 
Hardcover
Published by Rand Corp
Publication date: June 1997
List: $15.00

>From Submission to Rebellion : The Provinces Versus the Center in Russia
by Vladimir Shlapentokh, R. Levita, M. Ia Loiberg
Paperback
Published by Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Publication date: July 1997
List: $19.95 

A History of Russia : Medieval, Modern, Contemporary, C. 882-1996
by Paul Dukes
3 Ed
Hardcover
Published by Duke Univ Pr (Txt)
Publication date: September 1997
Price information not available.

The International Dimension of Post-Communist Transitions in Russia and 
the New States of Eurasia (International Politics of Eurasia, Vol 10)
by Karen Dawisha (Editor)
Paperback
Published by M E Sharpe
Publication date: June 1997
List: $29.95 

Intimacy and Terror : Soviet Diaries of the 1930s
by Veronique Garros (Editor), Natalia Korenevskaya (Editor)
Paperback, 408 pages
Published by New Pr
Publication date: March 1, 1997
List: $17.95 

Local Heroes : The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance
by Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Hardcover, 250 pages
Published by Princeton Univ Pr
Publication date: November 1, 1997
List: $35.00

Managing Conflict in the Former Soviet Union : Russian and American 
Perspectives (Csia Studies in International Security)
by Aleksei Georgievich Arbatov (Editor), Abram Chayes (Editor)
Paperback, 550 pages
Published by Mit Pr
Publication date: March 1, 1997
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Open Lands; Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places
by Mark Taplin
Hardcover, 375 pages
Published by Steerforth Pr
Publication date: October 1, 1997
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Politics and Economies in the Russian Far East; Changing Ties with the 
Asia Pacific
by Tsuneo Akaha
Paperback, 280 pages
Published by Routledge
Publication date: July 1, 1997
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Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia : Terror, Propaganda, and Dissent, 
1934-1941
by Sarah Rosemary Davies
Paperback
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt)
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Population Under Duress : The Geodemography of Post-Soviet Russia
by George J. Demko (Editor), Steven Pontius (Editor), Zh. A. 
Zaionchkovskaia
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published by Westview Pr (Short Disc)
Publication date: May 1, 1997
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Post-Communist Politics : An Introduction
by Karen Henderson, Neil Robinson
Hardcover
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Publication date: April 1997
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Post-Soviet Women - From the Battle to Central Asia : From the Baltic to 
Central Asia
by Mary Buckley (Editor)
Paperback
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The Rebirth of Russian Democracy : An Interpretation of Political 
Culture
by Nicolai N. Petro
Rep Edition 
Paperback, 240 pages
Published by Harvard Univ Pr
Publication date: September 1, 1997
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Recent Social Trends in Russia 1960-1995
by Irene A. Boutenko (Editor), Kyrill E. Razlogov (Editor)
Hardcover
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Publication date: July 1997
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Reforming Justice in Russia, 1864-1994 : Power, Culture, and the Limits 
of Legal Order
by Peter H. Solomon (Editor)
Hardcover
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Reinterpreting Russia : An Annotated Bibliography of Books on Russia, 
the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation, 1991-1996 (Magill 
Bibliographies)
by Steve D. Boilard, Steven D. Boilard
Hardcover
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Rethinking the Soviet Experience : Politics and History Since 1917
by Stephen F. Cohen
2nd Edition 
Hardcover
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Russia : A Country Study (Area Handbook Series)
by Glenn E. Curtis (Editor), Library of Congress Federal Research 
Division
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Russia : An Electoral History, 1989-1996
by Michael McFaul (Editor), Nikolai Petrov (Editor)
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Russia After Communism
by Anders Aslund
Paperback, 192 pages
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Russia and China on the Eve of a New Millennium
by Carl Linden, Jan S. Prybyla
Hardcover
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Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States : Documents, Data, and 
Analysis
by Zbigniew Brzezinski (Editor), Paige Sullivan (Editor), Center for 
strategi
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Russia in the Mid-1990's : The Social & Political Landscape
by Nikolai Petrov (Editor)
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Russia's 1996 Presidential Election : The End of Bipolar Politics 
(Hoover Institution Press Publication, No 442)
by Michael McFaul
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Russia's Constitutional Revolution : Constitutional Structures, Legal 
Consciousness, and the Emergence of Constitutionalism from Below, 
1985-1995
by Robert B. Ahdieh
Hardcover
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Publication date: May 1997
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Russia's Politics of Uncertainty
by Mary McAuley
Paperback, 380 pages
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Publication date: October 1, 1997
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Russia's Provinces : Authoritarian Transformation Versus Local Autonomy 
(Studies in Russian and East European History and Society Series)
by Peter Kirkow
Hardcover
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Russia's Tranformation : Snapshots Crumbling System
by Robert V. Daniels
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Russia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow - Voice of the New Generation
by Victor Pavlenkov
Paperback, 294 pages
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Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform
by Noreena Hertz
Hardcover, 256 pages
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The Russian Health Care Crisis : History, Evaluation, and 
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by David E. Powell
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Russian Organized Crime : The New Threat
by Phil Williams (Editor)
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Russian Politics : The Struggle for a New Order
by Joseph L. Nogee, R. Judson Mitchell
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Russia First : Breaking With the West
by Peter Truscott
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Russia's Economic Transformation in the 1990s
by Anders Aslund (Editor)
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The Search for Stability in Russia and the Former Soviet Union (Studies 
in Disarmament and Conflicts)
by David Carlton (Editor), Paul Ingram (Editor)
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Security Dilemmas in Russia and Eurasia
by R. Allison
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Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture
by Jane T. Costlow
Paperback, 372 pages
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The Soviet Experiment : Russia, the Ussr, and the Successor States
by Ronald Grigor Suny
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Women Organizing in Contemporary Russia
by Linda Racioppi, Katherine O'Sullivan See, Katherine Racioppi
Paperback, 264 pages
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Changing Channels : Television and the Struggle for Power in Russia
by Ellen Mickiewicz
Hardcover, 320 pages
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Comrade Criminal : Russia's New Mafiya
by Stephen Handelman
Paperback, 408 pages
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Down With Big Brother : The Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Michael Dobbs
Hardcover, 528 pages
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Gorbachev and His Revolution (European History in Perspective Series)
by Mark Galeotti
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Imperial Decline : Russia's Declining Role in Asia
by Steven J. Blank (Editor), Alvin Z. Rubenstein (Editor)
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Publication date: May 1, 1997
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Internationalizing Media Theory : Transition, Power, Culture : 
Reflections on Media in Russia, Poland and Hungary 1980-95 (Media, 
Culture and Society)
by John D. H. Downing
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Privatizing Russia
by Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny
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Russia and Europe : The Emerging Security Agenda
by Vladimir Baranovsky (Editor)
Hardcover
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The Russian Intelligentsia (Annual W. Averell Harriman Lecture)
by Andrei Sinyavsky
Hardcover, 112 pages
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Wars in the Caucasus, 1990-1995
by Edgar O'Ballance
Hardcover
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Who's Who in Russia and the Soviet Union : From 1900-1991
by Martin McCauley
Paperback
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Archives in Russia : A Directory and Bibliographic Guide to Holdings in 
Moscow and St. Petersburg
by M. D. Afanasev (Editor)
Hardcover
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Beyond the Monolith : The Emergence of Regionalism in Post-Soviet Russia 
(Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
by Peter J. Stavrakis (Editor), Joan Debardeleben (Editor), l Black
Hardcover
Published by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Publication date: April 1997
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The Longman Companion to Russia Since 1914 (Longman Companions to 
History)
by Martin McCauley
Paperback
Published by Longman Pub Group
Publication date: September 1997
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