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Demokratizatsiya
The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization

SOVIET UNION

Perestroika

Mikhail Gorbachev: The Last Days of the Presidency
Yuri Schekochikhin (1.1)

Perestroika Versus the Command-Administrative System
Nikolai Zlobin (1.2)

Chess-Like Diplomacy at Novo-Ogarevo
Yuri Baturin (2.2)

The Making of a President
Yegor Kuznetsov (2.2)

We’Äôve Got a Special Way of Thinking
Interview with Georgy Shakhnazarov (2.2)

From the Archives: On the Establishment of the Soviet Presidency (Previously unpublished materials pertaining to closed Kremlin talks on the creation of the USSR presidency in 1989) (2.2)

Interpretations of Soviet State and Social Structure: Perceptions of Members of the First Russian Democratic Political Groups, 1985-1991
Alexander Lukin (3.4)

From the Archives: Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup: The Suppressed Transcripts, Part I (Transcript of the hearings in the Supreme Soviet of Russia by the Commission for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August Putsch [the Ponomarev Commission], on the subject of ’ÄúConcerning the Role of the Repressive Organs in the Putsch of 19-21 August 1991’Äù) (3.4)

Retrospectives on Perestroika at the Gorbachev Foundation
Mikhail Gorbachev, et al. (4.1)

Reflections on Perestroika
Georgy Shakhnazarov (4.1)

The Other Side of Perestroika
Brian Crozier (4.1)

From the Archives: Russian Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup: The Suppressed Transcripts, Part II (Transcript of the hearings in the Supreme Soviet of Russia by the Commission for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August Putsch [the Ponomarev Commission], on the subject of ’ÄúConcerning the Role of the Repressive Organs in the Putsch of 19-21 August 1991’Äù) (4.1)

From the Archives: Russian Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup: The Suppressed Transcripts, Part III (Transcript of the hearings in the Supreme Soviet of Russia by the Commission for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August Putsch [the Ponomarev Commission], on the subject ’ÄúAbout the Illegal Financial Activity of the CPSU’Äù) (4.2)

From the Archives: Russian Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup: The Suppressed Transcripts, Part IV (Transcript of the hearings in the Supreme Soviet of Russia by the Commission for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August Putsch [the Ponomarev Commission], on the subject ’ÄúHearings on the Participation of the Leadership of the Soviet Armed Forces’Äù) (4.4)

From the Archives: Russian Supreme Soviet Investigation of the 1991 Coup: The Suppressed Transcripts, Part V (Transcript of the hearings in the Supreme Soviet of Russia by the Commission for Investigating the Causes and Circumstances of the August Putsch [the Ponomarev Commission], on the subject ’ÄúHearings on the Participation of the Leadership of the Soviet Armed Forces’Äù, part II) (5.4)

Soviet Domestic Politics and Collapse of the Outer Empire, 1989
Fredo Arias-King (7.2)

Chernobyl and Its Political Fallout: A Reassessment
Nicholas Daniloff (12.1)

Dissolution

Does the Fate of the Soviet Union Await the Commonwealth of Independent States?
Vladislav Drobkov (1.1)

Unraveling the Soviet Union: Gorbachev’Äôs Change in World View
Susanne Sternthal (6.3)

Founding Presidents of Soviet Successor States: A Comparative Study
David C. Brooker (12.1)

Pre-Gorbachev

The Command-Administrative System in Russia
Nikolai V. Zlobin (1.1)

From the Archives: Imposing Soviet Power in the Caucasus (Letters to Lenin and Stalin by Ordzhonikidze) and Suicide in the Early Red Army (statistics and letters from the USSR’Äôs Supreme Court Procuracy) (1.3)

From the Archives: Thirteen Letters from Stalin’Äôs Archives (previously unpublished personal documents from the secret Stalin files at the former Central Committee Archives in Moscow) (1.4)

From the Archives: Letters from Stalin, Lenin and Ordzhonikidze (3.3)

From the Archives: Twelve Documents from the Secret Archives of the Central Committee (Letters and telegrams from Lunacharsky, Stalin, Lenin, Martov, Potresov, Pavlov, Stoklitsky, Gorbunov and others) (5.4)

POST-SOVIET STATES, GENERAL

Does the Fate of the Soviet Union Await the Commonwealth of Independent States?
Vladislav Drobkov (1.1)

Will Democratization Survive Executive Power in the Ex-USSR?
Peter Juviler (1.1)

A Strategy to Encourage Democracy in the Newly Independent States
Constantine C. Menges (2.1)

Nuclear Proliferation Dangers in the NIS: An Interim Assessment
James E. Doyle (2.2)

Post-Soviet Organized Crime
Louise Shelley (2.3)

Bull in a China Shop: USAID’Äôs Post-Soviet Mission
Peter J. Stavrakis

Correspondence: Responses to Stavrakis’Äôs critique of U.S. aid policy by Richard Armitage, George Burrill and a response by Peter Stavrakis (4.3)

The Role of Antimonopoly Committees in the Former Soviet Union
Thomas A. Timberg (5.2)

’ÄúThey Pretend to Pay Us’Ķ’Äù The Wage Arrears Crisis in Post-Soviet States
Daniel Rosenblum (5.2)

The Writing on the Wall: More political humor from the post-Soviet states

What Is the State of Democracy in the Post-Communist Countries?
Bruce L.R. Smith (5.4)

The Dynamics of Integration: Russia and the Near Abroad
Jan S. Adams (6.1)

Environmental Challenges in the NIS: Recommendations for the New U.S. Administration
Nancy Lubin (8.4)

Trafficking in Human Beings in Georgia and the CIS
Georgi Glonti (9.3)

Founding Presidents of Soviet Successor States: A Comparative Study
David C. Brooker (12.1)

The Tyranny of Small Differences: The Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Democracy in the Former Socialist Bloc
Scott Radnitz (12.4)

UKRAINE

Foreign and Security Issues

Ukrainian Independence and National Security
Paula J. Dobriansky (2.1)

Economic Liberalism and Security Preferences: A Comparative Case Study of Russia and Ukraine in the 1990s
Benjamin E. Goldsmith (9.3)

Apart from Russia or Part of Russia: A Sad Saga of Ukrainian-Russian Relations
Igor Torbakov (9.4)

Economic Issues

The State and Economic Reform in Ukraine
Volodymyr Zviglyanich (3.2)

Economic Liberalism and Security Preferences: A Comparative Case Study of Russia and Ukraine in the 1990s
Benjamin E. Goldsmith (9.3)

Party and Civil Society Issues

Ukrainian Free Trade Unions
Seymon Karikov (3.2)

The Communist Parties of Russia and Ukraine on the Eve of the 1999 Elections: Similarities, Contrasts, and Interactions
Joan Barth Urban (7.1)

Ukrainian Higher Education in Transition: Perspectives and Policy Implications
William Gleason (9.3)

Can Ukrainian Communists and Socialists Evolve to Social Democracy?
Olexiy Haran’Äô (9.4)

Constitutional and Legal Issues

Democratization in Ukraine: Constitutions and the Rule of Law
Gregory H. Stanton (1.1)

The Proposed Constitution of Ukraine: Continuity Under the Banner of Change
David Lempert (2.2)

The Proposed Constitution of Ukraine
Bohdan Futey (2.4)

The Role of the Courts in the Electoral Process of Ukraine
Viktor Shishkin (2.4)

Legal Reform in Ukraine: Life in the Trenches
Christopher Lehmann (7.2)

An Evaluation of Ukrainian Legislation to Counter and Criminalize Human Trafficking
Olga Pyshchulina (11.3)

Organized Crime

Organized Crime and Corruption in Ukraine: Impediments to the Development of a Free Market Economy
Louise I. Shelley (6.4)

An Evaluation of Ukrainian Legislation to Counter and Criminalize Human Trafficking
Olga Pyshchulina (11.3)

General

Transition to Democracy in Ukraine
Bohdan Harasymiw (1.3)

Nationalism and Democracy in Ukraine
Paula J. Dobriansky (3.2)

The Specter of Integration in Russia: Lessons for the West and Ukraine
Volodymyr Zviglyanich (4.4)

The Social-Psychological Roots of Ethnic Problems in Crimea
Carina Korostelina (8.2)

Ukraine: Vagaries of the Post-Soviet Transition
Igor Torbakov (8.4)

The 2002 Parliamentary Elections as an Indicator of the Sociopolitical Development of Ukraine
Oleksandr Sushko (10.4)

BELARUS

The Belarusian National Dilemma
Kathleen Mihalisko (2.1)

Problems in American Assistance Policy toward the Former Soviet Union: The Belarus Prism
David H. Swartz (4.1)

Post-Soviet Youth: Engagement in Civil Society’ÄîBelarus and Beyond
Larissa G. Titarenko (7.3)

The Walls That Have Yet to Fall: Belarus as a Mirror of CIS Transition
Larissa G. Titarenko (8.2)

Foreign Trade Policymaking in Belarus: Current Practices and Problems
Irina E. Tochitskaya (8.2)

Belarus: Self-Identification and Statehood
Stanislau Shushkevich (8.3)

Belarus’Äôs Relations with NATO and Russia in the Context of European Security
Andrei Fedorov (8.3)

Borderland Identities or Steering a Sinking Ship?
Michael Szporer (8.4)

Religion and Politics in Neighboring Belarus and Poland: Gender Dimensions
Larissa Titarenko (9.4)

Lost Civilization: The Thorough Repression of Civil Society in Belarus
Mark Lenzi (10.3)

Belarus: To Democracy Through Neo-Communism
Stanislau Shushkevich (11.1)

Belarus Will Soon Be Liberated
Stanislau Shushkevich (interview) (12.1)

MOLDOVA

Moldova’Äôs Flawed Constitution
Andrew Lester (2.2)

The Politics of Language in Moldova
Jeffrey Chinn (2.2)

Moldova Under Lucinschi
Paul D. Quinlan (10.1)

Georgia, Moldova and Bulgaria: Dismantling Communist Structures Is Hardly Extremism
Irina Sarishvili-Chanturia, Iurie Rosca and Philip Dimitrov (interview) (12.2)

Back to the Future: An Overview of Moldova Under Voronin
Paul D. Quinlan (12.4)

Socialism with Unclear Characteristics: The Moldovan Communists in Government
Luke March (12.4)

Federalization and Constitution-Making as an Instrument of Conflict Resolution
Steven D. Roper (12.4)

The Foreign Policy of the Voronin Administration
Robert Weiner (12.4)

Interview with Dumitru Braghi‰ü (12.4)

The Democrats Must Cooperate
Iurie Ro‰üca (interview) (12.4)

ESTONIA

Ethnic Relations in Estonia and What They Mean for the World
Klara Hallik (2.4)

Estonia’Äôs Knight Returns
Mel Huang (10.4)

Introduction (to Estonia Special Issue)
Mel Huang (11.4)

’ÄúJust Do It’Äù
Mart Laar (interview) (11.4)

Reminiscing with the ’ÄúFather of the Kroon’Äù
Siim Kallas (interview) (11.4)

Free Trade in the 1990s: Understanding Estonian Exceptionalism
Magnus Feldmann (11.4)

Challenges to Estonia’Äôs Economic Policymaking at the Eve of EU Enlargement
Andreas Freytag (11.4)

Stabilizing Estonia: The International Dimension of State Security and Ethnic Integration Policy
Gregory Feldman (11.4)

Security in Flux: International Integration and the Transformations of Threat in Estonia
Merje Kuus (11.4)

Changing Media in a Changing Society
Peeter Vihalemm (11.4)

Social Contradictions Shadowing Estonia’Äôs ’ÄúSuccess Story’Äù
Marju Lauristin (11.4)

Key Moments in the History of Estonia
(compiled by Mel Huang) (11.4)

Estonia: Toward Post-Communist Reconstruction
Aadu Oll (12.3)

LATVIA

Legacy of a Shattered System: The Russian-Speaking Population in Latvia
Brian Boeck (1.2)

Breaking the Shackles: Latvia after the USSR
Rasma Karklins (2.1)

LITHUANIA

Brazauskas in Power: An Assessment
Julius Smulkstys (2.2)

Coalitional Behavior in the Lithuanian Parliament: The First Four Years
Terry D. Clark (3.1)

Toward Reform of the Lithuanian Economy
Thomas Grennes (3.1)

Lithuania: A Problem of Disclosure
Tomas Skucas (12.3)

BALTIC STATES

Russia, the Baltic States and the West
Rita Putins Peters (2.4)

The Baltic Reborn: Challenges of Transition
Walter C. Clemens, Jr. (6.4)

Baltic-Russian Relations in Light of Expanding NATO and the EU
Marko Mihkelson (11.2)

KAZAKHSTAN

The Bitter Fruits of ’ÄúDemocracy’Äù in Kazakhstan
Eric Rudenshiold (1.3)

Law-Making in Kazakhstan
Stanley Bach (1.4)

New Politics in Kazakhstan
Louise I. Shelley (3.3)

Development of Democracy in Kazakhstan
Kairbek Suleimenov and Zharmakan Tuyakbayev (3.3)

Kazakh Trade Unions
Gennady Nekitin (3.3)

Prospects for Kazakhstan’Äôs Asian Liberalism
Gregory Gleason (5.3)

On the Way toward Democracy: Women’Äôs Activism in Kazakhstan
Galiya Khassanova (8.3)

Halfway Home and a Long Way to Go: Russian and Kazakh Roads to Sectoral and Political Corruption
Keith E. Henderson (8.4)

TAJIKISTAN

Tajikistan in Ruins
Svetlana Lolaeva (1.4)

Regional and Religious Politics in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan: Some Preliminary Notes
Keith Martin (5.3)

UZBEKISTAN

One-Man Rule in Uzbekistan
C (pseudonym) (1.4)

In How Many Ways Will Russia Resemble Uzbekistan?
Steny H. Hoyer

Regional and Religious Politics in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan: Some Preliminary Notes
Keith Martin (5.3)

Unraveling the Mysteries of the Tashkent Bombings: Theories and Implications
Abdumannob Polat and Nickolai Butkevich (8.4)

KYRGYZSTAN

Kyrgyzstan: Central Asia’Äôs Democratic Alternative
Askar Akayev (2.1)

Constraining Democratic Development: Institutions and Party System Formation in Kyrgyzstan
Gregory Koldys (5.3)

TURKMENISTAN

The Evolution of Authoritarianism in Turkmenistan
Kareem Al-Bassam (5.3)

CENTRAL ASIA

Democracy and Statebuilding in Central Asia: Challenges for U.S. Policy-Makers
Martha Brill Olcott (2.1)

Pollution, Politics and Public Opinion in Central Asia
Nancy Lubin (2.1)

Russian Policy and Central Asian Energy, Economics, and Security
Stephen Blank (3.2)

Media and Politics in Central Asia
Mehrdad Haghayeghi (3.2)

The Central Asian States: An Overview of Five Years of Independence
Martha Brill Olcott (5.4)

Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Political Dynamics in Central Asia
Gregory Gleason (7.2)

Toward a Theory of Post-Imperial Space: The Case of Central Asia
Ariel Cohen (7.2)

Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Central Asia: New Dilemmas and Challenges Facing Youth and Children
Kathleen Kuehnast (8.2)

The War on Terrorism in Central Asia and the Cause of Democratic Reform
Martha Brill Olcott (11.1)

GEORGIA

Dynamics of State-Building in Georgia
Ghia Nodia (6.1)

Georgian Politics and the Conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Rusudan Gorgiladze (6.1)

Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict: View from Abkhazia
Liana Kvarchelia (6.1)

Recent Elections in Georgia: At Long Last, Stability?
Darrell Slider (8.4)

Georgia at the Crossroads
Georgi Glonti (8.4)

Trafficking in Human Beings in Georgia and the CIS
Georgi Glonti (9.3)

Georgia: Rise and Fall of the Faˆßade Democracy
Jaba Devdariani (12.1)

Georgia, Moldova and Bulgaria: Dismantling Communist Structures Is Hardly Extremism
Irina Sarishvili-Chanturia, Iurie Rosca and Philip Dimitrov (interview) (12.2)

AZERBAIJAN

Azerbaijan and the Caspian Basin: Pipelines and Geopolitics
Jayhun Molla-Zade (6.1)

The United States, Iran, Russia, and Turkey: The Struggle for Azerbaijan
S. Rob Sobhani (6.1)

CAUCASUS, GENERAL

The Political Underpinnings of U.S. Bilateral Aid to the Countries of the Transcaucasus
Ekaterine Metreveli and Ester Hakobyan (9.3)

COMPARATIVE TRANSITIONS

China’Äôs Path to Reform: And Russia’Äôs Example
Interview with Fang Lizhi (1.2)

Destasification: A Midcourse Appraisal
Jefferson Adams (1.3)

Disposing of the Stasi Legacy
Joachim Gauck (1.3)

Dismantling the Czechoslovak Secret Police
Jaroslav Basta (1.3)

Transition in Bulgaria: Paradigm, Outcomes and Lessons for the Late Starters
Atanas Gotchev (3.1)

’ÄúExcuse Me ’Ķ I’Äôve No Machinery, No Money and No Market: How Do I Farm?’Äù
Jeffrey Levine (3.1)

Bulgaria’Äôs Transition to a Market Economy
Alfred Levinson (3.1)

’ÄúVirtual’Äù Property and Post-Communist Globalization
Maria Los (6.1)

Georgia, Moldova and Bulgaria: Dismantling Communist Structures Is Hardly Extremism
Irina Sarishvili-Chanturia, Iurie Rosca and Philip Dimitrov (interview) (12.2)

Czech Republic: Cui Bono, Cui Prodest?
Jaroslav Ba‰°ta (12.3)

East Germany: The Stasi and De-Stasification
John O. Koehler (12.3)

Tropical Chekists: The Secret Police Legacy in Nicaragua
J. Michael Waller (12.3)

Poland: Continuity and Change
Andrzej Grajewski (12.3)

 

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