Publisher's Synopsis
This volume offers a series of comprehensive, authoritative and documented analytic studies of Russia and a number of the other post-Soviet republics. It includes a factual overview of current political and economic trends, analysis of key institutions such as the political parties of Russia and the perspectives of policy-makes from the New Independent States and the current administration in the US including Secretary of Defence, William Perry and J. Brian Atwood, the Director of the US Agency of International Development. Also, the volume contains lively debates such as those between Peter Reddaway and Martin Malia about the political future of Russia and between James Millar and Anders Aslund about how best to achieve economic reform in Russia and other post-communist states.;Contributors include: Constantine Menges, Thomas G. Baker, Andrei P. Tsygankov, Carl Linden, Charles Elliot, William Cohen, Kenneth Duckworth, Roman Sporluk, Robert Krikorian, Norman Offstein, Paul Goble, Ambassador Oleh Bilorus, Ambassador Toomas Ilves, Daviat Khudonazarov, Ambassador Sergei Martynov, and Kenneth Wollack.
