Russia and Eurasia 2018-2019

by Brent Hierman

Overview

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. The text focuses strongly on recent economic and political developments with shorter sections dealing with foreign policy, the military, religion, education, and specific cultural elements that help to define each republic and differentiate one from the other. Approximately one-third of the book is devoted to Russia, but also includes sections on Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. How the Commonwealth of Independent States came into being and how it has evolved since 1992 is also discussed. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475841541
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/30/2018
Series:	World Today (Stryker)
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	33 MB
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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.

Table 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