Where is Russia Headed? Toward Stability or Crisis?

This essay argues that the sources of the current revival of Russian authoritarianism lie in the country’s economic and political history. Among the major factors behind President Putin’s rise and…

Is Russia formidable? The answer, two new books argue, lies in the highly centralized inner workings of Putin’s autocracy.

Twenty years ago, there was a more thoroughgoing political pluralism in Russia than there is today. In some respects, the forms of democracy-including party consolidation-have been enhanced, but they have…