In 1999, as a freshman at Peking University, I lived on the Changping campus together with
about eight hundred other social sciences and humanities majors. The campus, located on …

Who watches over the party-state? In this engaging analysis, Maria Repnikova reveals the
webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China. More than …

Fully revised and updated to reflect the considerable changes in Russia over the last
decade, the fifth edition of this classic text builds on the strengths of previous editions to …

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an
undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well …

The epic tale of Vladimir Putin's path to power, as he emerged from obscurity to become one
of the world's most important and dangerous leaders. Former New York Times Moscow …

In most countries around the world, women continue to lag behind men in an array of
political orientations and activities. Understanding why this is the case and why some …

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, individual scholars and research
institutes have conducted numerous public opinion surveys to monitor how global citizenries …

Despite its wide usage in explaining political dynamics of non-democracies, preference
falsification remains an empirical myth for students of authoritarian politics due to the …

Moscow's annexation of Crimea and meddling in eastern Ukraine are the latest signs of
Russia's increasingly assertive behavior in the post-Soviet space. Not surprisingly …

This book builds on the strengths of the previous volumes by the same author to provide the
most detailed and nuanced account of the man, his politics and his profound influence on …