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Published and updated annually, Russia and Eurasia deals with the twelve independent republics that became members of the Commonwealth of Independent States following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1992.
List of contents
Introduction
The Russian Federation
The Land and the People
History
The Communist Era
Stalin's Revolution of the 1930s
The Post-Stalin Era
The Brezhnev Era
Government Transition
The Gorbachev Era
An Independent Russia is Reborn
The Putin Presidency
Russian Foreign Policy since Independence
Government of the Russian Federation
Constitution of the Russian Federation
Culture
The Changing Economy
The Commonwealth of Independent States
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Commonwealth of Independent States
Economy under the CIS
Some Regional Problems of the CIS
Western Republics
Belarus
Ukraine
Moldova
Transcaucasian Republics
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Central Asian Republics
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Web Sites and Bibliography
About the author
Brent Hierman is an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies and Political Science at Virginia Military Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His fieldwork for his dissertation was conducted in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and was funded by a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship. Prior to earning his Ph.D., he served in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan. Brent has published some of his research on Eurasian politics in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Problems of Post-Communism and Nationalities Papers. The courses that he regularly teaches at VMI include Post-Soviet Politics and Central Asian Politics. He last visited the region in 2017.
Summary
Published and updated annually, Russia and Eurasia deals with the twelve independent republics that became members of the Commonwealth of Independent States following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1992.
