1. Introduction: What is at Stake? LECTURE

Scott Gehlbach and Edward Malesky: 2011. “The Great Experiment that Wasn’t.” in Institutions, Property Rights and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North, Sebastian Galiani and Itai Sened, eds. Cambridge University Press.

Timothy Frye, Who Is To Blame, What is to Be Done?

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/08/30/who-is-to-blame-and-what-s-to-be-done

Alexei Navalny, “My Fear and Hatred”

https://navalny.com/p/6651/

Recommended:

Video: Political Perestroika

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me6q4NT7kTg

Timothy Frye. 2012. “In From the Cold: Causal Inference and Postcommunism.” Annual Review of Political Science,

2. What Was Communism and Why Did it Collapse? DISCUSSION

Stephen Kotkin Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000. Pages. 1-57*

Katherine, Verdery What Was Socialism and What Comes Next, Princeton University Press, 1996. pages, 19-38.*

Leon Aron. 2011. “Everything you Know About the Collapse of Communism is Wrong.” Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/06/20/everything-you-think-you-know-about-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-is-wrong/

Recommended: Mary Macauley. Soviet Politics, 1917-1991. Oxford University Press. 1992. Chapters 6-8, conclusion.*

Stephen Kotkin 2010. Uncivil Society. Random House.

Francis Spufford. 2012. Red Plenty. Graywolf Press http://redplenty.com/Red_Plenty/Front_page.html , Part 1 introduction, chps 1-2, Part II. Introduction, Chapters 1-2, Part III. Introduction. Part IV. Chps 2-3.

Thomas Remington. 1992. "Sovietology and System Stability," Post-Soviet Affairs 8:4 (October-December), pp. 239-269.

Seweryn Bialer, Stalin’s Successors, chap. 8.*

Video: My Perestroika

3. Studying Postcommunism LECTURE

Herbert Kitschelt, 2003. “Accounting for Postcommunist Regime Diversity: What Counts as a Good Cause?” in Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson eds. Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, 49-86. New York: Cambridge University Press.*

Adam Przeworski. Democracy and the Market. Pages, 10-50.

Stephen Holmes. “Conceptions of Democracy in the Draft Constitutions of the Post-Communist Countries.” Markets, States, and Democracy: The Political Economy of Postcommunist Transformation. 1995. 71-81. Also printed as “Back to the Drawing Board” in East European Constitutional Review Winter 1993.*

Thomas Carothers, “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” Journal of Democracy, vol.13, no.4, January 2002, pp. 5-21.

Sergei Guriev and Ekatarina Zhuravskaya. 2009. “Unhappiness in Transition.” Journal Of Economic Perspectives, 23:2.

Recommended: Joan M. Nelson. “The Politics of Economic Transformation: Is the Third World Experience Relevant in Eastern Europe?” World Politics 45: 3, 433-63.

Offe, Claus. 1991. “Capitalism by Democratic Design? Democratic Theory Facing the Triple Transition in East Central Europe.” Social Research, 58, 865-92.

Valerie Bunce, “Should Transitologists Be Grounded?” Slavic Review 54.1 (1995): pp. 111-127.

Recommended: Vladimir Putin. 2000 and 2006 2014 Addresses to the Federal Assembly. http://president.kremlin.ru/eng/sdocs/speeches

Boris Yeltsin. The Struggle for Russia. New York: Times Books, 1994. 183-217; 241-280.

4. State Building: Concept and Theory DISCUSSION

Max Weber. “What is a State?” 38-41*

Ganev, Venelin. 2005. “Post-Communism as an Episode of State-Building.” Communist and Post-Communist Politics. 38: 2005: 425-445

Darden, Keith and Anna Grzymala-Busse. 2007. “The Great Divide: Pre-Communist Schooling and Post-Communist Trajectories.” World Politics 59 (1): 83-115.

Stephen Holmes. “Cultural Legacy or State Collapse?” Perspectives on Postcommunism, Ed. Michael Mandelbaum. Council on Foreign Relations. New York. 1996.*

Keith Darden. “The Integrity of Corrupt States. Graft as an Informal State Institution, Politics and Society, vol.36 (2008).

“Dagestan Wedding.” William Burns, US Embassy Official. 2006.*

Recommended:

Vadim Volkov. Violent Entrepreneurs, Cornell University Press 2002.

Charles Tilly. 1985. “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Bringing the State Back In . ed. Evans, Reuschmeyer, and Skocpol.*

Timothy Frye and Andrei Shleifer. “The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings June 1996. pp. 554-559.

Thomas Carothers, “The Rule of Law Revival” and the