Drawing on a wide range of evidence, an international group of scholars address the impact of the international financial crisis in the post-Soviet states and the continuing implications of the crisis for these countries themselves and for the wider world.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, now known as East European Politics.
Valentina Feklyunina is a Lecturer in Politics in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. Her most recent publications include Russia's Authoritarian Elections (coauthored with Stephen White and others, Routledge, 2011).
Stephen White is James Bryce Professor of Politics at the University of Glasgow, and holds visiting appointments at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center and the Institute of Applied Politics in Moscow. His recent publications include Understanding Russian Politics (Cambridge, 2011).