Russia After Communism

by Fawn,Rick

• ISBN13: 9780714682587
• ISBN10: 0714682586
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-03-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Russia's transition from communism holds great significance not only for that country but also for the wider world. This collection of essays examines the broad spectrum of Russia's transition since 1991 - considering not only the pattern of events but also what the changes have meant for Russians themselves, and for their future. Particular attention is given to political attitudes and foreign policy, to the changing status of women, to religion and censorship, and to the continuing war in Chechnya.

Table of Contents

Preface	1	(2)
Correcting the Incorrigible? Russia's Relations with the West over Chechnya	3	(18)
Rick Fawn
Censorship in Russia, 1991 and 2001	21	(14)
Martin Dewhirst
Ten Years On, What Do the Russians Think?	35	(16)
Stephen White
A Liberation from Emancipation? Changing Discourses on Women's Employment in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia	51	(22)
Rebecca Kay
Mujahedeen, Mafia, Madmen: Russian Perceptions of Chechens During the Wars in Chechnya, 1994--96 and 1999--2001	73	(24)
John Russell
Church and State in Contemporary Russia: Conflicting Discourses	97	(20)
Edwin Bacon
Developments in the Russian Language in the Post-Soviet Period	117	(22)
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
The Russian Media in the 1990s	139	(22)
Laura Belin
The Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy in the 1990s	161	(22)
Allen C. Lynch
Abstracts	183	(3)
Notes on Contributors	186	(1)
Index	187