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

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