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Guide to Further Reading Guide to Further Reading The listing that follows suggests a number of items that students and others may find particularly useful to consult on the themes that are covered by each chapter of this book. Current developments in Russian politics and related themes are regularly considered in academic journals such as Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies, eight issues annually); the Journal of Com­ munist Studies and Transition Politics (quarterly); Post-Soviet Affairs (quar­ terly); Communist and Post-Communist Studies (quarterly); Problems ofPost­ Communism (six issues annually); and Transition (monthly). Legal and constitutional issues are given particular attention in the Review of Socialist Law (quarterly) and the East European Constitutional Review (quarterly). The Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press (weekly) is a digest of translations from newspapers and journals; the BBC Summary of World Broadcasts and the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (daily) include radio and television broadcasts as well as periodical material. In addition, there are several useful internet sites including those maintained by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Part I of their Newsline, issued since 1997 at http: //www.rferl.org/ newsline/search/; it succeeded the Open Media Research Institute's Daily Digest, available at http://www.omri.cz/), and the Jamestown Foundation in Washington DC (http: //www.cdi.org/mailing/russiaf). Pockney (1991) and Ryan (1993) provide useful collections of statistics on social and economic developments over the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Chapter 1 From the USSR to Postcommunist Russia The debate over the reasons for the fall of the Soviet Union has spawned a growing literature. For a pungent recent analysis of Soviet history, see Malia (1994), and for a perceptive account of the post-war period, Keep (1996). There are many good general discussions of the failure of the Soviet system: see, for instance, Amason, 1993; Brzezinski, 1989; Daniels, 1993; Dibb, 1986; Ellman and Kontorovich, 1992; Hudelson, 1993; Jowitt, 1992; Kagarlitsky, 1992; Kennedy, 1988; Lane, 1996a; Laqueur, 1994; Matlock, 1995; Robinson, 1995; Roeder, 1993; Waller 1993; and for a good journalistic account, Remnick, 1995. A contrasting interpretation, which explains the end ofSoviet socialism in terms of the self-interested actions of its ruling elite, is Kotz (1997). The emergence of Russian politics is analysed by Adelman (1995), Barner-Barry and Hody (1995), Buckley (1993), DeBardeleben (1997), Devlin (1995), Dunlop (1993), Lapidus (1994), Lowenhardt (1995), Saikal and Maley (1994), Sakwa (1996a), and Steele (1994). 279 280 Guide to Further Reading Chapter 2 From Communism to Democracy? The Gorbachev reforms are given detailed consideration in Sakwa (1990), Miller (1993), White (1994a) and Brown (1996). Postcommunist develop­ ments are well covered in Sakwa (I996a) and in a detailed chronological account by Murrell (1997). Movements in public opinion may be followed through the Central and Eastern Eurobarometer (published by the European Commission, annually since 1990) and in the New Russia Barometer (pub­ lished by the Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, since 1992),as well as through the periodic reports of the All-Russian Centre for the Study of Public Opinion, Ekonomicheskie i sotsialnye peremeny: monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniya (six issues annually since 1993, with an English translation of the questions asked). Some of the issues of analysis that relate to survey research in postcommunist Russia, and of the results that have been obtained, are considered in Wyman (1997). A wider study, relating developments in postcommunist Russia to those in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine, is available in Miller, White and Heywood (1997);and for the question of Russian identities in the postcommunist 1990s, see McDaniels (1996) and Pilkington (1996). Chapter 3 Presidential Power Given the dynamic nature of post-Soviet institution building, political elite mobility, and policy making, the best sources for current information on the Russian federal executive include internet sites and scholarly journals. Especially useful journal articles include Kryshtanovskaya and White (1996), Lane (1996b), and Treisman (I996b). For a useful overview of post­ Soviet leadership developments in Russia and the other successor states, see Colton and Tucker (1995). For information on the life and career ofPresident Boris Yeltsin, see his two autobiographical volumes (1990 and 1994)and the biography by Morrison (1991). Postcommunist presidencies, in Russia and elsewhere, are considered in Taras (1997). There are several good sources for the discussion that has taken place on presidentialism more generally, among them Lijphart (1992), Shugart and Carey (1992), Mainwaring (1993), Holmes (1993/94), Sartori (1994)and Linz and Valenzuela (1994). For a more detailed treatment of selected post-Stalinist regimes, see Bialer (1980), Breslauer (1982), Brown (1989, 1996), Huskey (1992), Rigby (1990a, 1990b), and Willerton (1992). Chapter 4 From Soviets to Parliamentarism Detailed discussion of the electoral and representative institutions of the late Soviet and early post-Soviet periods may be found in White, Gill and Slider (1993) and White (1994a). Studies focusing on representative institutions include Urban (1990), Huber and Kelley (1991), Kiernan (1993), Chiesa (1993), Remington (1994),and Hahn (1996). Detailed discussion of politics in the post-1993 Russian parliament will be found in Remington and Smith Guide to Further Reading 281 (1995, 1996). On the wider issue of parliamentary and presidential systems, see the reading suggested for Chapter 3. On elections and electoral institu­ tions in Russia from the Soviet period to the present, including the 1996 presidential elections, see Chapter 6 and the more detailed account in White, Rose and McAllister (1997). Chapter 5 Parties and Public Organisations Significant works are beginning to appear in the West on Russian parties and particularly their functions in the electoral process and in parliament. Note especially White, Rose and McAllister (1997), McAllister and White (1995), and Remington and Smith (1995). Also, for an earlier study, Lentini (1995), which contains a useful appendix listing electoral associations and brief summaries of their programmes in the 1993 elections; Lentini (1994) offers a similar survey. For a collection of essays on various aspects of competing groups and the emerging lobby system, see Segbers and De Spiegeleire(1995); a pioneering study of such political activity in the Soviet period is Skilling and Griffiths (1967). A succinct account of the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union is Hill and Frank (1986); on its decline, see Rees (1992), White (1994b) and Gill (1994). The fortunes of the revived Communist Party in post-Soviet Russian politics are discussed in Ishiyama (1996), Sakwa (1996b), and White and McAllister (1996); party identities at the time of the 1995 Duma elections are considered in Rose, Tikhomirov and Mishler (1997). Chapter 6 Elections and Voting Behaviour A monograph which looks at the electoral process as a whole is White, Rose and McAllister (1997). For studies of the electoral mechanism in the Soviet period, see Zaslavsky and Brym (1978) and Pravda (1986). Studies of individual elections relevant to the discussion of voting behaviour include Whitefield and Evans (1994), Urban (1994), Hough (1994), Wyman et al. (1994, 1995), Hughes (1994), Sakwa (1995b), Lentini (1995), and Wyman (1996).The December 1995Duma elections are considered in detail in White, Wyman and Oates (1997). On regional patterns, see Medvedkov et al. (1996) and Slider et al. (1994). Moser (1995) is a useful study of the impact of the electoral system itself. For overviews of trends in mass attitudes, see Wyman (1997) and Miller, White and Heywood (1997). For reports on the media coverage of elections in December 1995 and June-July 1996, see Monitoring (1996a, 1996b). Chapter 7 The Progress of Human Rights On Gorbachev's legacy, see Sharlet (1992). For background on the Russian Constitution, see Sharlet (1993 and 1996). For a published translation of the Russian Constitution, see Ludwikowski (1996); see also Finer et al. (1995), which contains the texts of other constitutions, and Belyakov and Raymond 282 Guide to Further Reading (1994),which includes commentaries. Authoritative treatments in Russian are available in Topornin et al. (1994) and in an encyclopedic dictionary of the constitution which includes the text in several languages, Tumanov et al. (1995). For the German Constitution with an extensive analysis, see Currie (1994). An excellent set of essays on the evolution of human rights in the US can be found in Lacey and Haakonssen (1992),which also contains a copy of the US Constitution. For a lawyer's analysis of human rights under the 1993 Russian Constitution, see Korkeakivi (1994, 1995and 1997). For an analysis of Russian freedoms of speech and press, see Foster (1996a and 1996b), and for analysis by political scientists, see Sharlet (1994) and Juviler (1995). For the most comprehensive study of the Russian jury trial, see Thaman (1995). The emerging Russian legal system is comprehensively examined in Feld­ brugge (1993) and Smith (1996). Chapter 8 The Rocky Road from Plan to Market Given the rapid pace of developments in recent years, the best sources are journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs and Transition.
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