Prof. Neil Robinson
Biography
Neil Robinson BA (CNAA), MA, PhD (Essex) is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Limerick. Prior to his appointment at Limerick he taught at the universities of York and Essex. His research interests focus on Russian and post-communist politics, particularly the political economy of post-communism and post-communist state building. He is the author of Ideology and the collapse of the Soviet system. A critical history of Soviet ideological discourse ( Edward Elgar, 1995), and Russia: a state of uncertainty (Routledge, 2002), Contemporary Russian Politics (Polity, 2018), and co-author (with Karen Henderson) of Post-communist politics (Prentice Hall, 1997). He is the editor or co-editor of Institutions and and political change in Russia (Macmillan, 2000), Reforging the weakest link: global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Ashgate, 2004), (with Aidan Hehir) State-building. Theory and practice (Routledge, 2007), and (with Todd Landman) The Sage handbook of comparative politics (Sage, 2009), The political economy of Russia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), and (with Rory Costello) Comparative European politics. Distinctive democracies, common challenges (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is the author of several book chapters and journal articles in, among other places, Soviet Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transitional Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Demokratizatsiya, Review of International Political Economy, International Political Science Review, Russian Politics.Research Interests
Russian politics; post-communist politics; political economy of Russia, especially the influence of international economy on Russia; state and institution buidling in Russia;Professional Activities
Committee
- 2002 Post-Soviet Politics, Ashgate Publishers, 2002 to date, *
- 2001 National Advisory Committee, Europe-Asia Studies, 2001 to date, *
- 2000 British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, 2000-2002, *
Association
- 2001 Vice president, 2008-2009; President, 2010-2012; Secretary 2012-, Irish Association for Russian and East European Studies
- 1991 Politics and International Relations Subject stream convenor, 2000-2002, Executive committee member, 2000-2, Treasurer, 2002-7, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
Employment
- 1995 University of Essex - Lecturer
- 1992 University of York - Lecturer
Education
- 1993 University of Essex - PhD
- 1988 University of Essex - MA
- 1987 Portsmouth Polytechnic - BA
Language
- Russian
Books
Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System. A critical history of Soviet ideological discourse
Prof. Neil Robinson
1995
Cheltenham
Edward Elgar
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Book Chapters
Why not more conflict in the former USSR?: Russia and Central Asia as a zone of relative peace
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Conclusion: the political dysfunctions of Russian capitalism
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
Lanham, MD
Rowman & Littlefield
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Parliamentary politics under Gorbachev: opposition and the failure of socialist pluralism
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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The contexts of Russia's political economy: Soviet legacies and post-Soviet policies
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
Lanham, MD
Rowman & Littlefield
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Russian presidents and state power: elections, institutional power and reform in Russia under Yeltsin and Putin
Prof. Neil Robinson
2002
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Natural states and the development of democracy'
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
Volgograd
Uchitel
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Introduction: the political problems of Russian capitalism
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
Lanham, MD
Rowman & Littlefield
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A fickle benefactor: Russia and the global economy as a resource for change
Prof. Neil Robinson
2004
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The Commonwealth of Independent States as an international institution
Prof. Neil Robinson
1999
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Russian patrimonial capitalism and the international financial crisis
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
London
Routledge
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State-building and international politics The emergence of a 'new' problem and agenda
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
London
Routledge
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State-building and international politics: The emergence of a 'new' problem and agenda
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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Classifying Russia's party system. The problem of relevance in a time of uncertainty
Prof. Neil Robinson
1998
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The 'normalization' of Russian politics and Europe
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
London
Anthem Press
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Corporate interests and the politics of transition in Russia, 1991-1994
Prof. Neil Robinson
1998
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The edges of Europe: conflict and resistance in the eastern marches and the problematic nature of a 'wider Europe'
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
Manchester
Manchester University Press
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State building and international politics: the emergence of a 'new' problem and agenda
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
London
Routledge
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Why not more conflict in the former USSR? Russia and Central Asia as a zone of relative peace?
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
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Russia: limiting the impact of crisis in a post-communist transitional economy
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
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Edited Books
Comparative European Politics. Distinctive Democracies, Common Challenges
Prof. Neil Robinson
2020
Oxford
Oxford University Press
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State-builidng. Theory and practice
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
London and New York
Routledge
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Reforging the weakest link. Global political economy and post-Soviet change in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
Prof. Neil Robinson
2004
Aldershot
Ashgate
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Institutions and political change in Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2000
Basingstoke and New York
Macmillan/St Martin's Press
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Peer Reviewed Journals
Political barriers to economic development in Russia: Obstacles to modernization under Yeltsin and Putin
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
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From coup to coup to...? The post-communist experience in Russia, 1991-1993.
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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August 1998 and the development of Russia's post-communist political economy
Prof. Neil Robinson
2009
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`Introduction' (to special section on Russia), New Political Economy,
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Economic and political hybridity: patrimonial capitalism in the post-Soviet sphere'
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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Institutional factors and Russian political parties: the changing needs of regime consolidation in a neo-patrimonial system
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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The politics of partial democracy: stability and instability in Russian politics
Prof. Neil Robinson
2003
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Institutional factors and Russian political parties: The changing needs of regime consolidation in a neo-patrimonial system
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Populism and political development in hybrid regimes: Russia and the development of official populism
Prof. Neil Robinson
2017
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Gorbachev and the place of the party in Soviet reform, 1985-1991.
Prof. Neil Robinson
1992
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Russian patrimonial capitalism and the international financial crisis
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
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Russia: Limiting the Impact of Crisis in a Post-Communist Transitional Economy
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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So what changed? The 1998 financial crisis and Russia's economic and political development
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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The political is personal: Corruption, clientelism, patronage, informal practices and the dynamics of post-communism
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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Why not more conflict in the former USSR? Russia and Central Asia as a zone of relative peace
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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What was Soviet ideology? A comment on Joseph Schull and an alternative
Prof. Neil Robinson
1995
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The economy and prospects for anti-democratic development in Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2000
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Sign of the times: the last draft of the CPSU Programme and the crisis of party power, 1990-1991.
Prof. Neil Robinson
1992
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The myth of equilibrium: winner power, fiscal crisis and Russian economic reform
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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Parliamentary politics under Gorbachev: opposition and the failure of socialist pluralism.
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Classifying Russia's party system. The problem of relevance in a time of uncertainty.
Prof. Neil Robinson
1998
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Vlast' pobeditelei i fiskal'nii krizis: gosudarstvo i ekonomicheskie reformy v Rossii
Prof. Neil Robinson
2002
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Other Journals
Conference Publications
Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference,
Prof. Neil Robinson
Assoc. Prof. Maura Adshead
2009
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Fourth ECPR Standing Group on International Relations International Conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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Irish Social Sciences Platform Conference, After the Celtic Tiger,
Prof. Neil Robinson
Assoc. Prof. Maura Adshead
2008
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Workshop on ¿Political transformation in the Soviet successor states¿, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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Workshop on ¿The evolution and transformation of the modern state: processes of change¿, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions
Prof. Neil Robinson
1998
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Irish Social Sciences Platform Conference, After the Celtic Tiger, 11-12 September
Prof. Neil Robinson
Assoc. Prof. Maura Adshead
2008
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British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies annual conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2005
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VI International Council for Central and East European Studies World Congress
Prof. Neil Robinson
2000
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Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, University of Manchester, 10-12 April
Prof. Neil Robinson
Assoc. Prof. Maura Adshead
2009
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Irish Association of Russian, Central and East European Studies annual conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2009
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The regional dynamics of Northeast Asia and Russia¿s globalization in the 21st century: cooperation, competition or conflict?
Prof. Neil Robinson
2004
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International Studies Association/Central and East European International Studies Convention
Prof. Neil Robinson
2003
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Fifth ECPR Standing Group on International Relations International Conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2004
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Irish Association of Russian and East European Studies annual conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2002
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Fourth ECPR Standing Group on International Relations International Conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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International Political Economy Group of the British International Studies Association
Prof. Neil Robinson
1997
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Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers annual conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies annual conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2002
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XII mezhdunarodnaya nauchnaya konferentsiya po problemam razvitiya ekonomiki i obshchestva
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Irish Association of Russian, Central and East European Studies annual conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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¿The role of the state and the political process¿, conference on Privatization and Socio-Economic Change in Central and Eastern Europe
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Workshop on ¿National models of political economy¿, European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions
Prof. Neil Robinson
1999
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Workshop on Political Economy of the Post-Soviet Space: Between Empires, Histories, and Uncertain Futures, EISA European Workshops in International Studies
Prof. Neil Robinson
2018
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5th International Conference on Democracy and Development, Venice
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies annual conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies annual conference
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Conference on ¿Political culture and civil society in the Black Sea Region¿
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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Workshop on ¿Democratization and the role of external actors¿, ECPR Standing Group on International Relations Third Pan-European International Relations Conference and Joint Meeting with the ISA
Prof. Neil Robinson
1998
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Conference Contributions
Published Reports
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Editorials
Book Reviews
Can Russia Modernise? 'Sistema', Power Networks and Informal Governance.
Prof. Neil Robinson
2014
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Review of L. Holmes, The end of communist power. Anti-corruption campaigns and legitimation crises, (Polity, 1993) The Times Higher
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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Review of A. Pravda ed.), The end of the outer empire. Soviet-East European Relations in transition, 1985-1990, (Sage, 1992), Journal of Communist Studies, 1993, 9 (3): 297
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Post-communist Regime Change: A Comparative Study
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Malden
Wiley-Blackwell
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Review of S. White, G. Gill and D. Slider, The politics of transition: shaping a post-Soviet future, (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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Review of T. Thompson, Ideology and policy. The political uses of doctrine in the Soviet Union, (Westview, 1989)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1991
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Understanding Post-communist Transformation: A Bottom Up Approach
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Malden
Wiley-Blackwell
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Moscow, the fourth Rome. Stalinism, cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of Soviet culture, 1931-1941
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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Communism and the emergence of democracy by Harald Wydra, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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Re-examining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985-2000: Generations, Ideas and Changes
Prof. Neil Robinson
2016
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The Currency of Power: The IMF and Monetary Reform in Central Asia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Review of D. Filtzer, The Khrushchev era: de-Stalinisation and the limits of reform in the USSR, 1953-1964, (Macmillan, 1993)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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R. Smyth, Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy Without Foundation
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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A. Barnes, Owning Russia. The struggle of factories, farms, and power, (Cornell University Press, 2006)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture 1931-1941
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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State Building in Putin's Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Review of S. Hanke, L. Jonung and K. Schuler, Russian currency and finance: a currency board approach to reform, (Routledge, 1993)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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Review of K. Gerner and S. Hedlund, Ideology and rationality in the Soviet model ¿ a legacy for Gorbachev, (Routledge, 1989)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1990
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P. Chaisty, Legislative politics and economic power in Russia, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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Mirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Review of T.F. Remington (ed.) Politics and the Soviet system, (Macmillan, 1989)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1989
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Review of L. March, The Communist Party in post-communist Russia, (Manchester University Press, 2002
Prof. Neil Robinson
2003
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The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Malden
Wiley-Blackwell
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R. Smyth, Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy Without Foundation (Cambridge University Press),
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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E. Carnaghan, Out of order: Russian political values in an imperfect world, (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Review of Kukathas, C., D. Lovell and W. Maley (eds) The transition from Socialism: state and civil society in Gorbachev¿s USSR, (Longman, 1991) and S. Berglund and J.A. Dellenbrant The new democrac....
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Review of R. Sakwa, Russian politics and society, (Routledge, 1993), in Irish Slavonic Studies
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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K. O'Connor, Intellectuals and apparatichiks. Russian nationalism and the Gorbachev revolution, (Lexington Books, 2006)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Review of A. Pravda ed.), The end of the outer empire. Soviet-East European Relations in transition, 1985-1990, (Sage, 1992), Journal of Communist Studies, 1993, 9 (3): 297
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Review of J. Miller, Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, (Macmillan, 1993)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Malden
Wiley-Blackwell
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Other Publications
Can Russia Modernise? 'Sistema', Power Networks and Informal Governance.
Prof. Neil Robinson
2014
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Review of L. Holmes, The end of communist power. Anti-corruption campaigns and legitimation crises, (Polity, 1993) The Times Higher
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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Review of A. Pravda ed.), The end of the outer empire. Soviet-East European Relations in transition, 1985-1990, (Sage, 1992), Journal of Communist Studies, 1993, 9 (3): 297
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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The collapse of a single party system. The disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Prof. Neil Robinson
1995
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Russia's experience of the global financial crisis
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
Oxford Brookes University
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Patrimonial capitalism and the financial crisis in Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Montreal
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Understanding Post-communist Transformation: A Bottom Up Approach
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Malden
Wiley-Blackwell
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Structure/agency, state/regime: Russia as an outlier and modal case in postcommunist political studies
Prof. Neil Robinson
2005
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Communist and post-communist states, and path dependent political economy
Prof. Neil Robinson
2003
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Political culture in post-communist Russia: formlessness and recreation in transition
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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Tattered banners: Labor, conflict and corporatism in post-communist Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
1997
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Review of S. White, G. Gill and D. Slider, The politics of transition: shaping a post-Soviet future, (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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Review of T. Thompson, Ideology and policy. The political uses of doctrine in the Soviet Union, (Westview, 1989)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1991
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Central Asia : international dimensions'
Prof. Neil Robinson
2015
Centre Européen de recherches internationales et stratégiques, Brussels
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State capture and business capture? Political and corporate power under neo-patrimonialism
Prof. Neil Robinson
2014
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In the shadow of violence : the political economy of Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
university of Birmingham
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Types of natural state and transitions to democracy'
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
San Francisco
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Conflict in the post-Soviet space: expectations and authoritarian peace
Prof. Neil Robinson
2010
Department of Politics, Queen's University Belfast
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Regime building versus state building in post-communist Russia: explaining the drive to modernization and its weaknesses
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Moscow
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Tour de force is a challenge to silence of Spain's bloody unresolved past
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Between democracy and authoritarianism: what can Russia tell us about state and regime development in post-Soviet systems?
Prof. Neil Robinson
2005
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Economy and anti-democracy in Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2000
Colchester
Department of Government, University of Essex,
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Democracy and its alternatives. Understanding post-communist societies
Prof. Neil Robinson
1999
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Getting Putin right: expectations of change in contemporary Russian politics
Prof. Neil Robinson
2002
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Russia First: Breaking with the West, (I.B. Taurus, 1997), in Slavonica
Prof. Neil Robinson
1999
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Democracy from scratch. Opposition and regime in the new Russian revolution
Prof. Neil Robinson
1996
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The post-communist experience in Russia: from stalemate to stalemate
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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R. Smyth, Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy Without Foundation
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Central Asia: neo-patrimonialism and stagnation'
Prof. Neil Robinson
2015
Centre Européen de recherches internationales et stratégiques, Brussels
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State, regime and economic sustainability in Central Asia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2010
CERIS Brussels
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Regime building versus state building in post-communist Russia: towards a theory of Russian political development
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
University of Iceland
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Life of Molotov challenges perception that Stalin's henchmen were drones
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Communism and the emergence of democracy by Harald Wydra, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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Rethinking Soviet collapse. Sovietology, the death of communism and the new Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
1999
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Winners and losers: the new political economy of neo-liberalism in the post-communist world
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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Re-examining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985-2000: Generations, Ideas and Changes
Prof. Neil Robinson
2016
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The Currency of Power: The IMF and Monetary Reform in Central Asia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Review of D. Filtzer, The Khrushchev era: de-Stalinisation and the limits of reform in the USSR, 1953-1964, (Macmillan, 1993)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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A. Brown (ed.) The demise of Marxism-Leninism, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2006
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The transition from Socialism: state and civil society in Gorbachev's USSR; and The new democracies in Eastern Europe: party systems and political cleavages
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Review of K. Gerner and S. Hedlund, Ideology and rationality in the Soviet model ¿ a legacy for Gorbachev, (Routledge, 1989)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1990
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Author argues that the roots of conflict can be found in our DNA
Prof. Neil Robinson
2018
Ireland
Irish Examiner
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'Russophobia' in official Russian political discourse
Prof. Neil Robinson
2018
International Studies Association
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Putin and the new Russian neo-conservatism
Prof. Neil Robinson
2014
SPIRE, Keele University
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Soviet-type systems and the development of democracy
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
Moscow State University
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The sustainability of patrimonial capitalism in the former USSR
Prof. Neil Robinson
2010
St Anthony's College, University of Oxford
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A. Barnes, Owning Russia. The struggle of factories, farms, and power, (Cornell University Press, 2006)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2007
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Transformatsiia v Rossii: politicheskii rezhim i demokraticheskaia oppozitsiia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2002
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State, reform and presidential regime in Russia: the dynamics of reform under Yeltsin and the prospects under Putin
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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The global economy and the crisis of economic transformation in Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
1998
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Ideology, rationality and legality in the political thought of Mikhail Gorbachev
Prof. Neil Robinson
1995
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Competing political platforms and political organization in the late Soviet state
Prof. Neil Robinson
1992
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The rise of the Russian democrats. The causes and consequences of the elite revolution
Prof. Neil Robinson
1996
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Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture 1931-1941
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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State Building in Putin's Russia: Policing and Coercion after Communism
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Review of S. Hanke, L. Jonung and K. Schuler, Russian currency and finance: a currency board approach to reform, (Routledge, 1993)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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T. Troxel, Parliamentary power in Russia, 1994-2001. President vs parliament, (Palgrave, 2003), Slavonic and East European Review
Prof. Neil Robinson
2005
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The end of communist power. Anti-corruption campaigns and legitimation crises
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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The end of the outer empire. Soviet-East European Relations in transition
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Review of L. March, The Communist Party in post-communist Russia, (Manchester University Press, 2002
Prof. Neil Robinson
2003
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Vladimir Putin, such a vastly overrated leader: We are one tweet away from bad relations
Prof. Neil Robinson
2017
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Beginning of the end or end of the beginning? Putin, opposition and regime evolution in Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
Dundee
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Wounded Russia striving to find its identity and be great once again
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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Resisting Patrimonial Capitalism in Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
Queens University Belfast
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The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Malden
Wiley-Blackwell
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P. Chaisty, Legislative politics and economic power in Russia, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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The struggle for reform in Russia, 1991-1993: corporatist interests versus 'shock therapy'
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
Glasgow
Department of Politics, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Participation and democracy east and west. Comparisons and interpretations
Prof. Neil Robinson
1999
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Why did the socialist system collapse in central and eastern European countries?
Prof. Neil Robinson
1996
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Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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Mirrors of the Economy: National Accounts and International Norms in Russia and Beyond
Prof. Neil Robinson
2012
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Review of T.F. Remington (ed.) Politics and the Soviet system, (Macmillan, 1989)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1989
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T. Bjorkman, Russia's road to deeper democracy, (Brookings Institute, 2003
Prof. Neil Robinson
2004
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The Khrushchev era: de-Stalinisation and the limits of reform in the USSR, 1953-1964
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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R. Smyth, Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation: Democracy Without Foundation (Cambridge University Press),
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Ideology and perestroika: Western political science explanations of change in the USSR and the absence of a concept
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
York
Department of Politics, University of York
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Economic reform and corporate resistance in Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
Department of Politics, University of York
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The limits of perestroika: the March elections and the Congress of People's Deputies and the I-RDG
Prof. Neil Robinson
1989
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Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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E. Carnaghan, Out of order: Russian political values in an imperfect world, (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Review of Kukathas, C., D. Lovell and W. Maley (eds) The transition from Socialism: state and civil society in Gorbachev¿s USSR, (Longman, 1991) and S. Berglund and J.A. Dellenbrant The new democrac....
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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P. Shankar Jha, The perilous road to the market, (Pluto Press, 2002), in Political Studies: Review, 2004
Prof. Neil Robinson
2004
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Russian currency and finance: a currency board approach to reform
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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Ideology and policy. The political uses of doctrine in the Soviet Union
Prof. Neil Robinson
1991
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Review of J. Miller, Mikhail Gorbachev and the end of Soviet power, (Macmillan, 1993)
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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A vision of Westminster's future marred by Machiavellian politics
Prof. Neil Robinson
2015
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Moscow, the fourth Rome. Stalinism, cosmopolitanism, and the evolution of Soviet culture, 1931-1941
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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Types of natural state and transitions to democracy
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
San Francisco
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Adapting Neo-patrimonialism to the Study of post-Soviet Political Development
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Washington, DC
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Empire of the Periphery: Russia and the World System
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Malden
Wiley-Blackwell
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Russian security in a globalized world: policies, concerns and capacities
Prof. Neil Robinson
2004
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Can democracy take root in post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in state-society relations
Prof. Neil Robinson
1998
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The party is sacred to me': Gorbachev and the place of the party in Soviet reform, 1985-1990
Prof. Neil Robinson
1991
Colchester
Centre for Russian Studies, University of Esse
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Review of R. Sakwa, Russian politics and society, (Routledge, 1993), in Irish Slavonic Studies
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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K. O'Connor, Intellectuals and apparatichiks. Russian nationalism and the Gorbachev revolution, (Lexington Books, 2006)
Prof. Neil Robinson
2008
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Review of A. Pravda ed.), The end of the outer empire. Soviet-East European Relations in transition, 1985-1990, (Sage, 1992), Journal of Communist Studies, 1993, 9 (3): 297
Prof. Neil Robinson
1993
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Ideology and rationality in the Soviet model: a legacy for Gorbachev
Prof. Neil Robinson
1990
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Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
Prof. Neil Robinson
2013
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Post-communist Regime Change: A Comparative Study
Prof. Neil Robinson
2011
Malden
Wiley-Blackwell
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The new international politics of Central Asia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2004
Université de Paris XI - Faculté Jean Monnet/Centre Européen de recherches inter
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Reconstructing the state. Personal networks and elite identity in Soviet Russia
Prof. Neil Robinson
2001
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The limits of Soviet democracy: the origins and prospects of the Inter-Regional Group
Prof. Neil Robinson
1989
Colchester
Department of Government, University of Essex
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Russia's New Politics. The Management of a Postcommunist Society.
Prof. Neil Robinson
2000
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Western analysis of perestroika and post-Soviet political economy
Prof. Neil Robinson
1994
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Russia's 1996 presidential election. The end of polarized politics
Prof. Neil Robinson
1998
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