Quarterly analytical essays devoted to key issues in the Russian political, social, and economic transition, written by Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies Leon Aron.
2008
Fall - The Georgia Watershed Summer - The Politics of Memory Spring - Putinism Winter - Putin-3
2007
Fall, Part II - Was Liberty Really Bad for Russia? Summer, Part I - Was Liberty Really Bad for Russia? Spring - The Vagaries of the Presidential Succession Winter - Glasnost at Twenty
2004
Fall - The Decline of the Communists Summer - Privatizing Pensions Spring - The Putin Restoration Winter - The Duma Election
2003
Fall - The YUKOS Affair Summer - Privatizing Russia's Electricity Spring - Russia, America, Iraq Winter - Chechnya: New Dimensions of the Old Crisis 2002
Fall - Making Sense of a Revolution Summer - A Private Hero for a Privatized Country Spring - Russia Reinvents the Rule of Law Winter - Russia's Choice
2001
Fall - An Anchor in the Mud: Three Russian Novels as a Guide to Practicing Freedom and Constructing a New Self Summer - Land Privatization: The End of the Beginning Spring - The Battle over the Debt Winter - Structure and Context in the Study of Post-Soviet Russia
2000
Fall - In Search of a Russian Middle Class Summer - A Second Go at a "Second Economic Revolution"? Spring - Vladimir Putin: Sources of His Victory and Dilemmas He Faces Winter - The Russian Election
1999
Fall - Is Russia Really "Lost"? Summer - From a Truce to Trench Warfare Spring - Waiting for December
1998
Fall - After the Crash Summer - Crisis of Confidence Spring - Russia's New Foreign Policy Winter - The Strange Case of Russian Capitalism