Russian and East European Institute

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177 Essays defended as of 5/07

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Listed chronologically

Listed by country/region and topic

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December 2001	Joshua Abrams	NGO's, Civil Society and the Disappearance of Environmental Activism in the Former Soviet Union
November 1988	Nicholas Aleshin	Contemporary Nationalism and Marxism
February 1993	Earideth Anderson	Environmental Analysis of Privatization Programs
February 1989	Anna Arapakos	Soviet Leadership Responses to the Crisis in the Agro-Industrial Complex: The Food Programs 1982-1987 and Changing Attitudes Toward the Military
April 2004	Matthew Atkins	The Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh: A look at the history, recent developments, and possible solutions
December 1990	Michael Auslin	The Aimless Territorial Questions: Soviet Foreign Policy Towards the Kurils
September 1996	Jennifer Baker	Slovaks and Hungarians in the Slovak Republic: A Case Study in Nationalist Politics
May 1997	Gretchen Bakke	Mimicking Democracy: The Symbolic Role of Law in Post-Soviet Russia
January 1993	Ted Barrall	Biological Weapons, Biotechnology and the Soviet Union
June 2004	Rebecca Bartlett	Russian Journal Changes after 1991: Implications for Slavic Collections
April 1993	Larry Beisel	Conversion of the Defense Industry of the Soviet Union
November 1993	Craig Bell	Rethinking National Security: The Development of a Russian Military Doctrine
April 2000	Andrew Berrier	Russian Military Reform, 1992-2000: The Predominance of Moderate Thought
May 2003	Mark Betka	Integration of Polish Farming to the European Union Common Agriculture Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
December 1992	Roger Bilas	Economic Development of the Soviet Far East
May 1989	Lorri Blanton	The Baltic National Front Movements: An Expression of Nationalistic Interest Group Articulation
May 1999	Eric Boyle	Fixing Old Equipment with New Tools: The Nizhniy Novgorod Eurobond Experience
November 1988	Fred Brown	Background and Implications of a Shift to a Reasonable Sufficiency Doctrine
June 1995	Jeffrey Brown	Persistent Legacies, Precarious Gains: Problems of the Post-Soviet Press in Central Asia
November 1998	Todd Brown	Ethnopolitical Mobilization in Moldova 1987-1990
May 2003	Tim Buchen	Moldova-Romania Reunification?
May 2002	John Burbank	The Russian Federation and its Regional Relationship with the European Union
May 2006	Andrew Burton	Minority Self-Governance: Minority Representation in Flux for the Hungarian Roma
April 2001	Janis Cakars	Nonviolence and the Latvian Independence Movement, 1986-1991
May 2000	Melissa Cakars	The Far Eastern Republic: Soviet Politics and the Buffer State
July 1993	Melissa Caldwell	"Let's Eat!"--The Cultural and Social Significance of Food Rituals as Practiced in 19th Century Russia
April 2007	Meagan Call	Inattention or Intention? Ignoring the Roma: An Analysis of Civic Education Curriculum in Romania
July 2005	Janel Causey	Russian Relics, Remembrance and Reevaluation: The Sale of Alaska and the Legacy of Russian America in Alaksa Today
April 1994	Richard Choppa	Russia: Invest or Ignore. An Investment Worthiness Assessment in Case Studies
December 2004	Che Clark	Integration Inaction: The Czech Republic, Domestic Politics, and Accession to the European Union
June 1998	Abigail Cleveland	Dividing the Waters: Russian Policy Toward the Legal Regime of the Caspian Sea
April 1989	Virginia Clough	From Transmission Belt to Spark Plug: The Union of Cinematographers under Gorbachev
August 1993	Margaret Cloyd	The Czech and Slovak Republics: A Scrutiny of Government Energy Policies
December 1991	Dorene Cornwell	Soviet-Czechoslovak "Cooperation" in Nuclear Energy Development
June 1990	Bryan Costello	The Evolution of Neutrality: Finnish-Soviet Relations in the Post-War Years, 1948-1961
November 1988	Tim Costello	Soviet Defense Decision-making and Priority Allocation
April 1990	William Crabtree	Environmental Cooperation among CMEA Member Countries
November 2007	Joseph James Crescente III	Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serduchka and the Hybridization of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine
June 1998	Katherin Currie	Nourishment for the Soul: The Importance of Culture during the Siege of Leningrad
May 1994	Andrew Curthoys	The Political Philosophy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
August 2005	Matthew C. Curtis	Petar II Petrovic Njegos and Gjergj Fishta: Composers of National Epics
April 1993	Linda Dausch	Gogol's Ruins: Fragmentation vs. Totality
September 1997	Dianne Davenport	Loss or Gain: Czech Women's Citizenship under Socialism and Democracy
December 1996	Matthew DeGroot	The Cultural Dynamics of Capitalism in Russia
August 1990	Duane De Luca	Soviet-Albanian Relations
April 1994	Dennis Desmond.	The Structure and Organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Mikhail Gorbachev
December 2000	Hyun-Hee Do	Globalization of Telecommunications Market in Russia and the Czech Republic: Mobile Telephone Services Market
June 1998	Theodore Donosky	Politics and the Media in Serbia: 1987-1997
May 2003	Thomas Dumstorf	The More Things (Ex)Change the More They...or Not?: The Effectiveness of the Business for Russia/Community Connections Program
July 2003	Alex Dunlop	Humanism and Nationalism among Serbian intellectuals in the 1980s
October 2003	Bill Eastwood	When Discourses Clash: Religious Violence in Georgia
June 2003	Carrie Ellingson	A Black Hole in Cyberspace: Examining Problems in Internet Development in Hungary and Croatia During the Mid-1990s
May 1998	Michael Fassbender	Who are "My" (We)?: Late Imperial Newspapers in Russia and Russian National Identity
December 1999	Sara Feinstein	A Business Incubator in the Transition Economies of Vietnam and Azerbaijan? A Comparative Perspective of Feasibility
December 2006	Richard Fitzmaurice	Nonprofit Sector Development in Postcommunist Countries: The Cases of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
May 1998	Bettina Fiumano	Red Don: The Russian Mafia in the Transition Economy: The Rise, Development, and Imapact of the Mafia in Russia
March 2007	Sarah Fogleman	Education in Transition: The Challenge of Reforming Latvia's School System, 1991-2006
August 1993	John Gaffney	A New Era in Russian Relations in Northeast Asia
April 1993	Darel Gallagher	Russian Conversion Program Prospects for Success on the Regional Level
February 1989	Shaun Gelsinger	How Reform Affects Defense Priorities: The Case of Hungary
April 1988	Michael Geskin	Soviet Defense Manpower Policy: Non-Russian Nationalities in the Soviet Armed Forces - The Need for Integration
August 2003	Simone Giger	Shock Therapy in Russia
April 2005	Neil Gipson	HIV/AIDS Threatens Russia's Economy, Security and Stability
November 1988	Richard Green	Case Study of Soviet Tank Developments
May 2001	Eve Greenfield	Language of Dissent, or Language of Compromise? Native Language, Ethnicity and Bilingual Education Policy in the North Caucasus
December 1999	John Grewelle	Morale in the Russian Army: At the Breaking Point?
April 1991	Scott Griffith	The Opening of the Soviet Economy to Foreign Investment
May 1990	Stephen Guenther	The Effects of Glasnost' on the KGB
April 1995	Brad Gutierrez	Hungarian Exile Movement in the United States during WWII and the American Response
December 2001	Kenneth Guy	The Re-Creation of History: Soviet Folklore as Propaganda in the 1930s
May 1992	Calvin Harris	Was Stalin a Russian Nationalist? Some Thoughts on Stalin's Approach to the National Question
April 2005	Philip Hart	Red Dusk? The Defeat of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the 2003/04 Elections
October 1990	Erik Hartten	The Demise of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Its Integration into the World Economy via the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank
May 1999	Michael Hawn	The Economics of Romania's Agricultural Transformation
August 2005	Jacquelyn Henderson	Human Development and Human Rights in Belarus: Key to a More Secure Europe
April 1992	Erik Herron	Defense Conversion in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
December 2003	David Hickox	Citizen and Ethnic Integration in Latvia and Lithuania Since 1991
May 2006	Stephanie Hockman	Conversation Superhighway: The Internet as Public Space in Uzbekistan
May 2005	Jonathan Hudgens	Right-Wing Movements in the State and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: Implications for Democracy
May 1989	Amy Hutchinson	The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Burden Sharing and Reform: An Overview
May 2007	Jennifer Hylton	Perverse Incentives or Good Parenting: The Role of the International Monetary Fund and the European Union in Romania
June 1990	Jared Ingersoll	Great Reforms and Not So Great Reforms: The Municipal Statute of 1870 and the Failure of the Reformed Municipal Government
August 1989	Jane Iwasyszyn	Religious Freedom in East Germany and the Soviet Union in the Era of Glasnost'
February 2000	Walter Jensen III	Radio and Television Transmissions as a Continuation of War by Other Means: The Case of Bosnia
June 1998	Paul Kaczmarek	Russian Liberalism and the Third of June System, 1905-1911
December 1996	Eric Kaempfer	Russian Military Influence on Regional Security Policy
May 1998	Michael Katula	Sublimity and the Image of Night in the Fiction of Bruno Schulz
January 1998	Gregory Keller	Polish Business Culture in Transition: Legacy of the Past, Influences of the Future
September 2003	Matthew Kelley	Khrushchev, Dissent and the Path to Dissidence
November 1994	John Kershaw	Reforming the Russian Military: A Study of Russian Military Doctrine and Efforts at Reform
May 2002	Patrick Kinney	National Religions and Religious Nationalities: Complexities of Identity in Communist and Post-Communist Romania
May 1988	Ted Kirkpatrick	World Revolution and the Red Army--The Soviet-Polish War of 1919-1920
August 2002	Richard Knepper	Information Systems and Infrastructure Development in Poland: An Evaluation of the ePolska Plan
June 1998	Andrew Kohlhepp	Beyond Economics: Integration in the Former Soviet Union
December 1993	Sara-Jane Koncki	The Implementation and Effects of the Soviet Economic Development Pattern in the Baltic Republics
April 1996	Benjamin Kopperl	From Officers to Conspirators: The Peoples' Will and the Russian Military
May 1995	David Korfhage	Interpretation and Reinterpretation of Rukopis Královédvorský and Rukopis Zelenohorský
May 1987	Andriy Koropeckyj	Soviet Population and the Future of Minority Territorial Areas
May 1998	Ann Kustoff	Rural Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Russia
May 1995	William Lahue	Coup Attempt in the USSR: The Events Leading to the August Coup and Why it Failed
December 1991	Michael Lally	The Soviet National Security Decision-Making 1985-1991: Perestroika and Institutional Change
September 1997	David Lamp	Between Soviet Social Contract and the Russian Social Safety Net: Reasons for Poverty in the Russian Federation
December 1997	Yusin Lee	The Process of National-Building in Kazakhstan Examined in Light of the Post-Colonial Countries' Experience: The Impact of Soviet Policy as Source and Obstacle to Nation-Building
August 2005	Aron Liptak	The Impact of Educational Corruption on Culture in the Newly Independent States
April 2005	Leslie Lutz	Russian Nonprofit Tax Law: A Call for Reform
September 2004	Jennifer Maceyko	Political and Cultural Mobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Russians, Poles, and Hungarians
May 1992	William McFadden	The Environmental Impact of Economic Transformation in the Former Soviet Union
April 1998	Russell McGlinchey	The Law on Production Sharing Agreements
April 1991	Donald McGuire	The Aral Sea Crisis
December 1993	Jason McNamara	Nuclear Power in the CMEA: The Ignalina AES and the Greifswald KKW--Similar Problems, Different Solutions
April 2000	Dennis Metro-Roland	Recollections of a Movement: The Memory and History of the National Organization of People's Colleges in Hungary
April 1992	Christopher Meyer	Reform and Research and Development in Ex-Soviet Union and East Germany
April 1990	Melinda Milenkovich	The Soviet Commitment to the Environment
June 2005	Lyndsay Miles	Russo-Georgian Post-Soviet Relations and the Impact of the Rose Revolution
November 1989	Michael Milkie	Soviet Attitudes toward the Command and Control of Strategic Nuclear Forces
April 1997	Allison Mindel	The Evolution of a Refugee Protection System: Hungary, a Case Study
May 2007	Denise Mishiwiec	Civil Society Development and Democratization in Azerbaijan: Assessing the Influence of Local NGOs
May 1994	Charles Mixon	Contemporary Russian Monarchism
April 1994	Kelly Moore	What Happened to the Honeymoon? Domestic Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia
May 1998	Zachary Morford	The Implementation of Bankruptcy Legislation: Lessons Provided by the Russian and Polish Experiences
September 1993	Suzanne Mullin	Russian Minority Reaction to the 1989 Baltic Language Laws
April 1990	Michelle Murtha	A History of the Party Programs of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a Point by Point Comparison of the 1961 and 1986 Programs
April 2000	Stephen Nedell	Politics of History: Previous Interpretations of the Origins, Development and Suppression of the Kronstadt Uprising of March 1921 in the Light of Recently Declassified Documents
May 2001	Eve Nilenders	Putting Pipe Dreams Into Practice: Investment in Water System Modernization in Estonia
September 1992	Patricia Oehme	Prospects for Foreign Economic Liberalization in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltics and Russia
June 1999	Rebecca Olson	Decay, Renewal, Stagnation, and Innovation: Czech Libraries in Transition
April 1993	Ellis (Spethman) Orsay	Pedagogical Science: Victim or Villain?
December 2007	Justin Otten	Power and Conflict: Economics, Ethno-nationalism, and the State of Security in the Republic of Macedonia since 2001
April 2005	Steven Page	Conditionality and the Czech Administrative State: The European Union's Influence on Czech Reform
April 1989	Sue Panek	The Energy Factor in Soviet-East European Relations
January 1994	Caterina Panos	"The Hardest Path": A Political Biography of Alexander Tvardovskii
December 1997	Kendall Parks	NATO Expansion: A Case Study of the Realist Paradigm
December 1992	Jennifer Paustenbaugh	Tsiganite, the Gypsies of Bulgaria: Assimilation, Rejection, and Stormy Co-existence
December 1993	Jamie Pearlman	Gorbachev's Conversion to Democratization
November 1995	Beth Pelloso	Social Benefits Policy in the New Russia: Strategies for Health Care and Pension Reform
September 1993	Jeffrey Pennington	From the Alfold to the Carpathians: A History of the Railroad between Debrecen and Yasinya
March 1993	Gregory Perchatsch	Solving Ukraine's Energy Crisis
April 1994	Valery Perry	A New Conscious Intelligentsia: The Disillusionment of a Generation of Communists
April 1990	Edgar Peyronnin	Global Safety and the Environment: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and the Emerging World Political Order
April 2002	Michael Popovich	Tengiz Tease: A Comparison of Rentier State Characteristics and Kazakhstan's Oil-driven Economic Development Strategy
April 2000	Donald Pruefer	From Throw Weights to Metric Tons: The Nuclear Threat from Russia's Northern Fleet
October 1992	William Pyle	Soviet Banking Reform
May 1991	William Raisner	The Effect of the Invasion of Afghanistan on Soviet-Pakistani Relations: An Historical Perspective
April 1995	Sudha Rajagopalan	The Bylina: Narrative and Hero in the Construction of Identity
December 2006	Courtney Ranson	Russia and the Color Revolutions
April 2004	Emily Ray	Prague Library Flood of 2002: Crisis and Experimentation
April 1991	Douglas Reed	Soviet Military Power in the Baltics
May 2000	Richard Reyno	The Russian Armed Forces in Chechnya, 1994-1996: A Toothless Bear?
November 1987	Ralph Rhea	Soviet Military Power Projection into the Third World: Actors, Capabilities, and Doctrine
September 2007	Andrew Ringlee	The Military Gymnazia in Reform Era Russia, 1863-1882
February 2007	Joseph Roberts	Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia
May 1991	David Rosenblum	New Thinking in Soviet Foreign Policy toward Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989
January 2003	K. R.	Lithuania and Russia: Redefining Post-Soviet Relations
December 1999	Daniel Sargent	Community Foundation Development in Poland: Building Cooperation in Support of Philanthropy
September 2003	Daniel Saulean	Assessing Societies Exposed to Communism: From Nationalism to Democracy in Romania
April 1995	Trent Scherer	Russo-Chechen Relations in the Post-Soviet Era
April 1990	Lisa Sentz	Regional Economic Autonomy in the USSR: The Baltic Region as a Case Study
April 1997	Barbara Shapiro	To Invade or Not to Invade: A Contrast of Khrushchev and Gorbachev as Decision Makers
November 1991	Lesle Sheffer	The Demise of the CMEA: Too Much of a Burden to Share
May 1999	Ivan Shidlovsky	Cossacks: A New National Identity or National Guard?
June 1992	Daniel Shultz	Vavilov's Plant Science, Lysenko's Agrobiology and Soviet Agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s
January 1998	Robert Silber	The Hungarian Transformation 1989-1997: A Personal Perspective of the Political, Economic, and Social Changes
September 1996	Peggy Simpson	Polish Women in the Transition, 1990-96: Political and Economic Changes
July 1990	Laurie Skirkanich	Coalescing of Interest Groups within the Soviet Military: A Help or Hindrance for Reform?
May 1988	Guntis Smidchens	Life Stories of Four Chicago Latvians
April 1989	Joyce Smith	The Corruption in Uzbekistan and the Trial of Churbanov
April 1989	Michael Smith	The Dynamics of Current Soviet Efforts to Develop Soviet Central Asia
November 1988	I-Fen Crystal Sun	Sino-Soviet Relations in 1980s: A Political, Economic & Trade Overview
November 1995	Mark Temple	The Politicization of History: Marshall Antonescu and Romania
April 1993	Richard Terrell	Soviet Nationality Policy and National Consciousness in the Transcaucasian Republics: Drawing Together or Tearing Apart?
January 1989	Brett Thomas	The Dilemma of the "Nation" in the German Democratic Republic 1967-1976
December 2002	Russell Thomasson	Soviet Involvement with American POWs during the Vietnam War: An Assessment
September 2005	Alice Tobin	Addressing Human Trafficking in Ukraine: Leadership from the Third Sector and the Primacy of Prevention
August 2002	Renne Traicova	An Assessment of the Health Reform in Bulgaria (1989-2001): Concept vs. Reality
January 1994	David Tyson	Literacy in Turkestan Prior to Soviet Rule
May 1997	Sara Van Gunst	The Great Transformation: A Look at Property Rights in Post-Communist Russia
June 2004	Naomi Wachs	The Dramatic Rise and Fall of Russia's District Heating System or How Not to Run a Public Utility
August 2002	Annisa Wanat	Bulgaria's Integration Progress: A Journey from the Balkans into the European Union and NATO
September 1995	Joanna Wandycz	Radio Free Europe: A Key Player in the Downfall of Communism in Poland?
April 1989	Zenia Warlinski	The Coexistence of Official, Medicine and Medicinal Herbs in Poland in the Last Decade
April 1996	Tracie Wilson	Rewriting History and Identity: The German Minority in Modern Poland
May 1990	J. Laurence Wright II	CMEA Standardization and the World Economy
May 2002	Sang Yeol Yoon	Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Northeast Asia during the Gorbachev Era

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November 1987	Ralph Rhea	Soviet Military Power Projection into the Third World: Actors, Capabilities, and Doctrine
April 1988	Michael Geskin	Soviet Defense Manpower Policy: Non-Russian Nationalities in the Soviet Armed Forces – The Need for Integration
May 1988	Ted Kirkpatrick	World Revolution and the Red Army—The Soviet-Polish War of 1919-1920
November 1988	Richard Green	Case Study of Soviet Tank Developments
November 1988	Fred Brown	Background and Implications of a Shift to a Reasonable Sufficiency Doctrine
November 1988	Tim Costello	Soviet Defense Decision-making and Priority Allocation
November 1988	I-Fen Crystal Sun	Sino-Soviet Relations in 1980s: A Political, Economic & Trade Overview
January 1989	Brett Thomas	The Dilemma of the "Nation" in the German Democratic Republic 1967-1976
February 1989	Anna Arapakos	Soviet Leadership Responses to the Crisis in the Agro-Industrial Complex: The Food Programs 1982-1987 and Changing Attitudes Toward the Military
February 1989	Shaun Gelsinger	How Reform Affects Defense Priorities: The Case of Hungary
April 1989	Virginia Clough	From Transmission Belt to Spark Plug: The Union of Cinematographers under Gorbachev
April 1989	Sue Panek	The Energy Factor in Soviet-East European Relations
April 1989	Joyce Smith	The Corruption in Uzbekistan and the Trial of Churbanov
April 1989	Michael Smith	The Dynamics of Current Soviet Efforts to Develop Soviet Central Asia
April 1989	Zenia Warlinski	The Coexistence of Official, Medicine and Medicinal Herbs in Poland in the Last Decade
May 1989	Lorri Blanton	The Baltic National Front Movements: An Expression of Nationalistic Interest Group Articulation
April 1990	William Crabtree	Environmental Cooperation among CMEA Member Countries
April 1990	Melinda Milenkovich	The Soviet Commitment to the Environment
April 1990	Michelle Murtha	A History of the Party Programs of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a Point by Point Comparison of the 1961 and 1986 Programs
April 1990	Edgar Peyronnin	Global Safety and the Environment: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and the Emerging World Political Order
April 1990	Lisa Sentz	Regional Economic Autonomy in the USSR: The Baltic Region as a Case Study
May 1990	Stephen Guenther	The Effects of Glasnost' on the KGB
May 1990	J. Laurence Wright II	CMEA Standardization and the World Economy
June 1990	Bryan Costello	The Evolution of Neutrality: Finnish-Soviet Relations in the Post-War Years, 1948-1961
June 1990	Jared Ingersoll	Great Reforms and Not So Great Reforms: The Municipal Statute of 1870 and the Failure of the Reformed Municipal Government
July 1990	Laurie Skirkanich	Coalescing of Interest Groups within the Soviet Military: A Help or Hindrance for Reform?
August 1990	Duane De Luca	Soviet-Albanian Relations
October 1990	Erik Hartten	The Demise of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Its Integration into the World Economy via the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank
December 1990	Michael Auslin	The Aimless Territorial Questions: Soviet Foreign Policy Towards the Kurils
April 1991	Scott Griffith	The Opening of the Soviet Economy to Foreign Investment
April 1991	Donald McGuire	The Aral Sea Crisis
April 1991	Douglas Reed	Soviet Military Power in the Baltics
May 1991	William Raisner	The Effect of the Invasion of Afghanistan on Soviet-Pakistani Relations: An Historical Perspective
May 1991	David Rosenblum	New Thinking in Soviet Foreign Policy toward Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989
November 1991	Lesle Sheffer	The Demise of the CMEA: Too Much of a Burden to Share
December 1991	Dorene Cornwell	Soviet-Czechoslovak "Cooperation" in Nuclear Energy Development
December 1991	Michael Lally	The Soviet National Security Decision-Making 1985-1991: Perestroika and Institutional Change
April 1992	Erik Herron	Defense Conversion in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
April 1992	Christopher Meyer	Reform and Research and Development in Ex-Soviet Union and East Germany
May 1992	Calvin Harris	Was Stalin a Russian Nationalist? Some Thoughts on Stalin's Approach to the National Question
May 1992	William McFadden	The Environmental Impact of Economic Transformation in the Former Soviet Union
September 1992	Patricia Oehme	Prospects for Foreign Economic Liberalization in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltics and Russia
October 1992	William Pyle	Soviet Banking Reform
December 1992	Roger Bilas	Economic Development of the Soviet Far East
December 1992	Jennifer Paustenbaugh	Tsiganite, the Gypsies of Bulgaria: Assimilation, Rejection, and Stormy Co-existence
January 1993	Ted Barrall	Biological Weapons, Biotechnology and the Soviet Union
February 1993	Earideth Anderson	Environmental Analysis of Privatization Programs
March 1993	Gregory Perchatsch	Solving Ukraine's Energy Crisis
April 1993	Larry Beisel	Conversion of the Defense Industry of the Soviet Union
April 1993	Linda Dausch	Gogol's Ruins: Fragmentation vs. Totality
April 1993	Darel Gallagher	Russian Conversion Program Prospects for Success on the Regional Level
April 1993	Richard Terrell	Soviet Nationality Policy and National Consciousness in the Transcaucasian Republics: Drawing Together or Tearing Apart?
July 1993	Melissa Caldwell	"Let's Eat!"--The Cultural and Social Significance of Food Rituals as Practiced in 19th Century Russia
April 1993	Ellis (Spethman) Orsay	Pedagogical Science: Victim or Villain?
August 1993	Margaret Cloyd	The Czech and Slovak Republics: A Scrutiny of Government Energy Policies
August 1993	John Gaffney	A New Era in Russian Relations in Northeast Asia
September 1993	Suzanne Mullin	Russian Minority Reaction to the 1989 Baltic Language Laws
September 1993	Jeffrey Pennington	From the Alfold to the Carpathians: A History of the Railroad between Debrecen and Yasinya
November 1993	Craig Bell	Rethinking National Security: The Development of a Russian Military Doctrine
December 1993	Sara-Jane Koncki	The Implementation and Effects of the Soviet Economic Development Pattern in the Baltic Republics
December 1993	Jason McNamara	Nuclear Power in the CMEA: The Ignalina AES and the Greifswald KKW--Similar Problems, Different Solutions
December 1993	Jamie Pearlman	Gorbachev's Conversion to Democratization
April 1994	Dennis Desmond	The Structure and Organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Mikhail Gorbachev
April 1994	Richard Choppa	Russia: Invest or Ignore. An Investment Worthiness Assessment in Case Studies
April 1994	Kelly Moore	What Happened to the Honeymoon? Domestic Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia
April 1994	Valery Perry	A New Conscious Intelligentsia: The Disillusionment of a Generation of Communists
January 1994	Caterina Panos	"The Hardest Path": A Political Biography of Alexander Tvardovskii
January 1994	David Tyson	Literacy in Turkestan Prior to Soviet Rule
May 1994	Andrew Curthoys	The Political Philosophy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
May 1994	Charles Mixon	Contemporary Russian Monarchism
November 1994	John Kershaw	Reforming the Russian Military: A Study of Russian Military Doctrine and Efforts at Reform
April 1995	Brad Gutierrez	Hungarian Exile Movement in the United States during WWII and the American Response
April 1995	Sudha Rajagopalan	The Bylina: Narrative and Hero in the Construction of Identity
April 1995	Trent Scherer	Russo-Chechen Relations in the Post-Soviet Era
May 1995	David Korfhage	Interpretation and Reinterpretation of Rukopis Královédvorský and Rukopis Zelenohorský
May 1995	William Lahue	Coup Attempt in the USSR: The Events Leading to the August Coup and Why it Failed
June 1995	Jeffrey Brown	Persistent Legacies, Precarious Gains: Problems of the Post-Soviet Press in Central Asia
September 1995	Joanna Wandycz	Radio Free Europe: A Key Player in the Downfall of Communism in Poland?
November 1995	Beth Pelloso	Social Benefits Policy in the New Russia: Strategies for Health Care and Pension Reform
November 1995	Mark Temple	The Politicization of History: Marshall Antonescu and Romania
April 1996	Benjamin Kopperl	From Officers to Conspirators: The Peoples' Will and the Russian Military
April 1996	Tracie Wilson	Rewriting History and Identity: The German Minority in Modern Poland
September 1996	Jennifer Baker	Slovaks and Hungarians in the Slovak Republic: A Case Study in Nationalist Politics
September 1996	Peggy Simpson	Polish Women in the Transition, 1990-96: Political and Economic Changes
December 1996	Matthew DeGroot	The Cultural Dynamics of Capitalism in Russia
December 1996	Eric Kaempfer	Russian Military Influence on Regional Security Policy
April 1997	Allison Mindel	The Evolution of a Refugee Protection System: Hungary, a Case Study
April 1997	Barbara Shapiro	To Invade or Not to Invade: A Contrast of Khrushchev and Gorbachev as Decision Makers
May 1997	Gretchen Bakke	Mimicking Democracy: The Symbolic Role of Law in Post-Soviet Russia
May 1997	Sara Van Gunst	The Great Transformation: A Look at Property Rights in Post-Communist Russia
September 1997	Dianne Davenport	Loss or Gain: Czech Women's Citizenship under Socialism and Democracy
September 1997	David Lamp	Between Soviet Social Contract and the Russian Social Safety Net: Reasons for Poverty in the Russian Federation
December 1997	Yusin Lee	The Process of National-Building in Kazakhstan Examined in Light of the Post-Colonial Countries' Experience: The Impact of Soviet Policy as Source and Obstacle to Nation-Building
December 1997	Kendall Parks	NATO Expansion: A Case Study of the Realist Paradigm
January 1998	Gregory Keller	Polish Business Culture in Transition: Legacy of the Past, Influences of the Future
January 1998	Robert Silber	The Hungarian Transformation 1989-1997: A Personal Perspective of the Political, Economic, and Social Changes
April 1998	Russell McGlinchey	The Law on Production Sharing Agreements
May 1998	Michael Fassbender	Who are "My" (We)?: Late Imperial Newspapers in Russia and Russian National Identity
May 1998	Michael Katula	Sublimity and the Image of Night in the Fiction of Bruno Schulz
May 1998	Ann Kustoff	Rural Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Russia
May 1998	Zachary Morford	The Implementation of Bankruptcy Legislation: Lessons Provided by the Russian and Polish Experiences
June 1998	Katherin Currie	Nourishment for the Soul: The Importance of Culture during the Siege of Leningrad
November 1998	Todd Brown	Ethnopolitical Mobilization in Moldova 1987-1990
May 1998	Bettina Fiumano	Red Don: The Russian Mafia in the Transition Economy: The Rise, Development, and Imapact of the Mafia in Russia
June 1998	Abigail Cleveland	Dividing the Waters: Russian Policy Toward the Legal Regime of the Caspian Sea
June 1998	Theodore Donosky	Politics and the Media in Serbia: 1987-1997
June 1998	Paul Kaczmarek	Russian Liberalism and the Third of June System, 1905-1911
June 1998	Andrew Kohlhepp	Beyond Economics: Integration in the Former Soviet Union
May 1999	Eric Boyle	Fixing Old Equipment with New Tools: The Nizhniy Novgorod Eurobond Experience
May 1999	Michael Hawn	The Economics of Romania's Agricultural Transformation
May 1999	Ivan Shidlovsky	Cossacks: A New National Identity or National Guard?
May 1999	Ivan Shidlovsky	Cossacks: A New National Identity or National Guard?
June 1999	Rebecca Olson	Decay, Renewal, Stagnation, and Innovation: Czech Libraries in Transition
December 1999	Sara Feinstein	A Business Incubator in the Transition Economies of Vietnam and Azerbaijan? A Comparative Perspective of Feasibility
December 1999	John Grewelle	Morale in the Russian Army: At the Breaking Point?
December 1999	Daniel Sargent	Community Foundation Development in Poland: Building Cooperation in Support of Philanthropy
February 2000	Walter Jensen III	Radio and Television Transmissions as a Continuation of War by Other Means: The Case of Bosnia
April 2000	Andrew Berrier	Russian Military Reform, 1992-2000: The Predominance of Moderate Thought
April 2000	Dennis Metro-Roland	Recollections of a Movement: The Memory and History of the National Organization of People's Colleges in Hungary
April 2000	Stephen Nedell	Politics of History: Previous Interpretations of the Origins, Development and Suppression of the Kronstadt Uprising of March 1921 in the Light of Recently Declassified Documents
April 2000	Donald Pruefer	From Throw Weights to Metric Tons: The Nuclear Threat from Russia's Northern Fleet
May 2000	Melissa Cakars	The Far Eastern Republic: Soviet Politics and the Buffer State
May 2000	Richard Reyno	The Russian Armed Forces in Chechnya, 1994-1996: A Toothless Bear?
December 2000	Hyun-Hee Do	Globalization of Telecommunications Market in Russia and the Czech Republic: Mobile Telephone Services Market
April 2001	Janis Cakars	Nonviolence and the Latvian Independence Movement, 1986-1991
May 2001	Eve Greenfield	Language of Dissent, or Language of Compromise? Native Language, Ethnicity and Bilingual Education Policy in the North Caucasus
May 2001	Eve Nilenders	Putting Pipe Dreams Into Practice: Investment in Water System Modernization in Estonia
December 2001	Joshua Abrams	NGO's, Civil Society and the Disappearance of Environmental Activism in the Former Soviet Union
December 2001	Kenneth Guy	The Re-Creation of History: Soviet Folklore as Propaganda in the 1930s
April 2002	Michael Popovich	Tengiz Tease: A Comparison of Rentier State Characteristics and Kazakhstan's Oil-driven Economic Development Strategy
May 2002	John Burbank	The Russian Federation and its Regional Relationship with the European Union
May 2002	Patrick Kinney	National Religions and Religious Nationalities: Complexities of Identity in Communist and Post-Communist Romania
May 2002	Sang Yeol Yoon	Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Northeast Asia during the Gorbachev Era
August 2002	Richard Knepper	Information Systems and Infrastructure Development in Poland: An Evaluation of the ePolska Plan
August 2002	Renne Traicova	An Assessment of the Health Reform in Bulgaria (1989-2001): Concept vs. Reality
August 2002	Annisa Wanat	Bulgaria's Integration Progress: A Journey from the Balkans into the European Union and NATO
December 2002	Russell Thomasson	Soviet Involvement with American POWs during the Vietnam War: An Assessment
January 2003	K. R.	Lithuania and Russia: Redefining Post-Soviet Relations
May 2003	Thomas Dumstorf	The More Things (Ex)Change the More They...or Not?: The Effectiveness of the Business for Russia/Community Connections Program
May 2003	Mark Betka	Integration of Polish Farming to the European Union Common Agriculture Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
May 2003	Tim Buchen	Moldova-Romania Reunification?
June 2003	Carrie Ellingson	A Black Hole in Cyberspace: Examining Problems in Internet Development in Hungary and Croatia During the Mid-1990s
July 2003	Alex Dunlop	Humanism and Nationalism among Serbian intellectuals in the 1980s
August 2003	Simone Giger	Shock Therapy in Russia
September 2003	Matthew Kelley	Khrushchev, Dissent and the Path to Dissidence
September 2003	Daniel Saulean	Assessing Societies Exposed to Communism: From Nationalism to Democracy in Romania
October 2003	Bill Eastwood	When Discourses Clash: Religious Violence in Georgia
December 2003	David Hickox	Citizen and Ethnic Integration in Latvia and Lithuania Since 1991
April 2004	Matthew Atkins	The Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh: A look at the history, recent developments, and possible solutions
April 2004	Emily Ray	Prague Library Flood of 2002: Crisis and Experimentation
June 2004	Rebecca Bartlett	Russian Journal Changes after 1991: Implications for Slavic Collections
June 2004	Naomi Wachs	The Dramatic Rise and Fall of Russia's District Heating System or How Not to Run a Public Utility
September 2004	Jennifer Maceyko	Political and Cultural Mobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Russians, Poles, and Hungarians
December 2004	Che Clark	Integration Inaction: The Czech Republic, Domestic Politics, and Accession to the European Union
April 2005	Philip Hart	Red Dusk? The Defeat of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the 2003/04 Elections
April 2005	Neil Gipson	HIV/AIDS Threatens Russia's Economy, Security and Stability
April 2005	Leslie Lutz	Russian Nonprofit Tax Law: A Call for Reform
April 2005	Steven Page	Conditionality and the Czech Administrative State: The European Union's Influence on Czech Reform
May 2005	Jonathan Hudgens	Right-Wing Movements in the State and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: Implications for Democracy
June 2005	Lyndsay Miles	Russo-Georgian Post-Soviet Relations and the Impact of the Rose Revolution
July 2005	Janel Causey	Russian Relics, Remembrance and Reevaluation: The Sale of Alaska and the Legacy of Russian America in Alaksa Today
August 2005	Matthew C. Curtis	Petar II Petrovic Njegos and Gjergj Fishta: Composers of National Epics
August 2005	Jacquelyn Henderson	Human Development and Human Rights in Belarus: Key to a More Secure Europe
August 2005	Aron Liptak	The Impact of Educational Corruption on Culture in the Newly Independent States
September 2005	Alice Tobin	Addressing Human Trafficking in Ukraine: Leadership from the Third Sector and the Primacy of Prevention
May 2006	Andrew Burton	Minority Self-Governance: Minority Representation in Flux for the Hungarian Roma
May 2006	Stephanie Hockman	Conversation Superhighway: The Internet as Public Space in Uzbekistan
December 2006	Richard Fitzmaurice	Nonprofit Sector Development in Postcommunist Countries: The Cases of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
December 2006	Courtney Ranson	Russia and the Color Revolutions
February 2007	Joseph Roberts	Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia
March 2007	Sarah Fogleman	Education in Transition: The Challenge of Reforming Latvia's School System, 1991-2006
April 2007	Meagan Call	Inattention or Intention? Ignoring the Roma: An Analysis of Civic Education Curriculum in Romania
May 2007	Denise Mishiwiec	Civil Society Development and Democratization in Azerbaijan: Assessing the Influence of Local NGOs
May 2007	Jennifer Hylton	Perverse Incentives or Good Parenting: The Role of the International Monetary Fund and the European Union in Romania
September 2007	Andrew Ringlee	The Military Gymnazia in Reform Era Russia, 1863-1882
November 2007	Joseph James Crescente III	Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serduchka and the Hybridization of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine
December 2007	Justin Otten	Power and Conflict: Economics, Ethno-nationalism, and the State of Security in the Republic of Macedonia since 2001

Listed by country/region and topic:

Soviet topics

Russian topics

Eastern European topics

Balkan topics

Transcaucasian topics

Central Asian topics

Environmental topics

Economic topics

Cultural/intellectual topics


Soviet topics (alphabetically by author)

February 1989	Anna Arapakos	Soviet Leadership Responses to the Crisis in the Agro-Industrial Complex: The Food Programs 1982-1987 and the Changing Attitudes Toward the Military
December 1990	Michael Auslin	The Aimless Territorial Questions: Soviet Foreign Policy Towards the Kurils
April 1993	Larry Beisel	Conversion of the Defense Industry of the Soviet Union
November 1988	Fred Brown	Background and Implications of a Shift to Reasonable Sufficiency Doctrine
May 2000	Melissa Cakars	The Far Eastern Republic: Soviet Politics and the Buffer State
June 1990	Bryan Costello	The Evolution of Neutrality: Finish-Soviet Relations in the Post-War Years, 1948-1961
November 1988	Tim Costello	Soviet Defense Decision-making and Priority Allocation
April 1994	Dennis Desmond	The Structure and Organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs under Mikhail Gorbachev
April 1988	Michael Geskin	Soviet Defense Manpower Policy: Non-Russian Nationalities in the Soviet Armed Forces - The Need for Integration
November 1988	Richard Green	Case Study of Soviet Tank Developments
May 1990	Stephen Guenther	The Effects of Glasnost' on the KGB
May 1992	Calvin Harris	Was Stalin a Russian Nationalist? Some Thoughts on Stalin's Approach to the National Question
April 1992	Erik Herron	Defense Conversion in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods
September 2003	Matthew Kelley	Khrushchev, Dissent and the Path to Dissidence
May 1988	Ted Kirkpatrick	World Revolution and the Red Army - The Soviet-Polish War of 1919-1920
June 1998	Andrew Kohlhepp	Beyond Economics: Integration in the Former Soviet Union
May 1987	Andriy Koropeckyj	Soviet Population and the Future of Minority Territorial Areas
May 1995	William Lahue	Coup Attempted in the USSR: The Events Leading to the August Coup and Why it Failed
December 1991	Michael Lally	The Soviet National Security Decision-Making 1985-1991: Perestroika and Institutional Change
November 1989	Michael Milkie	Soviet Attitudes toward the Command and Control of Strategic Nuclear Forces
April 1990	Michelle Murtha	A History of the Party Programs of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a Point by Point Comparison of the 1961 and 1986 Programs
April 2000	Stephen Nedell	Politics of History: Previous Interpretations of the Origins, Development and Suppression of the Kronstadt Uprising of March 1921 in the Light of Recently Declassified Documents
April 1989	Sue Panek	The Energy Factor in Soviet-East European Relations
December 1993	Jamie Pearlman	Gorbachev's Conversion to Democratization
October 1992	William Pyle	Soviet Banking Reform
November 1998	Ralph Rhea	Soviet Military Power Projection into the Third World: Actors, Capabilities, and Doctrine
May 1991	David Rosenblum	New Thinking in Soviet Foreign Policy toward Eastern Europe and the Revolutions of 1989
April 1997	Barbara Shapiro	To Invade or Not to Invade: A Contrast of Khrushchev and Gorbachev as Decision Makers
July 1990	Laurie Skirkanich	Coalescing of Interest Groups within the Soviet Military: A Help or a Hindrance for Reform?
November 1988	I-Fen Crystal Sun	Sino-Soviet Relations in the 1980s: A Political, Economic & Trade Overview
December 2002	Russell Thomasson	Soviet Involvement with American POWs during the Vietnam War: An Assessment
May 2002	Sang Yeol Yoon	Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Northeast Asia during the Gorbachev Era

Russian topics (alphabetically by author)

May 1997	Gretchen Bakke	Mimicking Democracy: The Symbolic Role of Law in Post-Soviet Russia
June 2004	Rebecca Bartlett	Russian Journal Changes after 1991: Implications for Slavic Collections
November 1993	Craig Bell	Rethinking National Security: The Development of a Russian Military Doctrine
April 2000	Andrew Berrier	Russian Military Reform, 1992-2000: The Predominance of Moderate Thought
May 1999	Eric Boyle	Fixing Old Equipment with New Tools: The Nizhniy Novgorod Eurobond Experience
May 2002	John Burbank	The Russian Federation and its Regional Relationship with the European Union
July 2005	Janel Causey	Russian Relics, Remembrance and Reevaluation: The Sale of Alaska and the Legacy of Russian America in Alaska Today
April 1994	Richard Choppa	Russia: Invest or Ignore. An Investment Assessment in Case Studies
May 2003	Thomas Dumstorf	The More Things (Ex)Change the More They . . . or Not?: The Effectiveness of the Business of Russia/Community Connections Program
May 1998	Michael Fassbender	Who are "My" (We)?: Late Imperial Newspapers in Russian and Russian National Identity
May 1998	Bettina Fiumano	Red Don: The Russian Mafia in the Transition Economy: The Rise, Development and Impact of the Mafia in Russia
August 1993	John Gaffney	A New Era in Russian Relations in Northeast Asia
April 1993	Darel Gallagher	Russian Conversion Program Prospects for Succes on the Regional Level
April 2005	Neil Gipson	HIV/AIDS Threatens Russia's Economy, Security and Stability
December 1999	John Grewelle	Morale in the Russian Army: At the Breaking Point?
April 2005	Philip Hart	Red Dusk? The Defeat of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the 2003/04 Elections
May 2005	Jonathan Hudgens	Right-Wing Movements in the State and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia: Implications for Democracy
June 1990	Jared Ingersoll	Great Reforms and Not So Great Reforms: The Municipal Statute of 1870 and the Failure of the Reformed Municipal Government
June 1998	Paul Kaczmarek	Russian Liberalism and the Third of June System, 1905-1911
December 1996	Eric Kaempfer	Russian Military Influence on Regional Security Policy
November 1994	John Kershaw	Reforming the Russian Military: A Study of Russian Military Doctrine and Efforts at Reform
May 1998	Ann Kustoff	Rural Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Russia
April 1996	Benjamin Kopperl	From Officers to Conspirators: The Peoples' Will and The Russian Military
September 1997	David Lamp	Between Soviet Social Contract and the Russian Social Safety Net: Reasons for Poverty in the Russian Federation
April 2005	Leslie Lutz	Russian Nonprofit Tax Law: A Call for Reform
May 1994	Charles Mixon	Contemporary Russian Monarchism
November 1995	Beth Pelloso	Social Benefits Policy in the New Russia: Strategies for Health Care and Pension Reform
December 2006	Courtney Ranson	Russia and the Color Revolutions
September 2007	Andrew Ringlee	The Military Gymnazia in Reform Era Russia, 1863-1882
January 2003	K.R.	Lithuania and Russia: Redefining Post-Soviet Relations
April 1995	Trent Scherer	Russo-Chechen Relations inf the Post-Soviet Era
May 1997	Sara Van Gust	The Great Transformation: A Look at Property Rights in Post-Communist Russia
June 2004	Naomi Wachs	The Dramatic Rise and Fall of Russia's District Heating System or How Not to Run a Public Utility

Eastern European topics (alphabetically by author)

September 1996	Jennifer Baker	Slovaks and Hungarians in the Slovak Republic: A Case Study in Nationalist Politics
May 2003	Mark Betka	Integration of Polish Farming to the European Union Common Agriculture Policy: Challenges and Opportunities
May 1989	Lorri Blanton	The Baltic National Front Movements: An Expression of Nationalistic Interest Group Articulation
November 1998	Todd Brown	Ethnopolitical Mobilization in Moldova 1987-1990
May 2003	Tim Buchen	Moldova-Romania Reunification?
May 2006	Andrew Burton	Minority Self-Governance: Minority Representation in Flux for the Hungarian Roma
April 2001	Janis Cakars	Nonviolence and the Latvian Independence Movement, 1986-1991
April 2007	Meagan Call	Inattention or Intention? Ignoring the Roma: An Analysis of Civic Education Curriculum in Romania
December 2004	Che Clark	Integration Inaction: The Czech Republic, Domestic Politics and Accession to the European Union
August 1993	Margaret Cloyd	The Czech and Slovak Republics: A Scrutiny of Government Energy Policies
December 1991	Dorene Cornwell	Soviet-Czechoslovak "Cooperation" in Nuclear Energy Development
September 1997	Dianne Davenport	Loss or Gain: Czech Women's Citizenship under Socialism and Democracy
December 2000	Hyun-Hee Do	Globalization of Telecommunications Market in Russia and the Czech Republic: Mobile Telephone Services Market
June 2003	Carrie Ellingson	A Black Hole in Cyberspace: Examining Problems in Internet Development in Hungary and Croatia During the Mid-1990s
March 2007	Sarah Fogleman	Education in Transition: The Challenge of Reforming Latvia's School System, 1991-2006
Febraury 1989	Shaun Gelsinger	How Reform Affects Defense Priorities: The Case of Hungary
April 1995	Brad Gutierrez	Hungarian Exile Movement in the United States during WWII and the American Response
August 2005	Jacquelyn Henderson	Human Development and the Human Rights in Belarus: Key to a More Secure Europe
December 2003	David Hickox	Citizen and Ethnic Integration in Latvia and Lithuania Since 1991
May 2007	Jennifer Hylton	Perverse Incentives or Good Parenting: The Role of the International Monetary Fund and the European Union in Romania
August 1989	Jane Iwasyszyn	Religious Freedom in East Germany and the Soviet Union in the Era of Glasnots'
January 1998	Gregory Keller	Polish Business Culture in Transition: Legacy of the Past, Influences of the Future
August 2002	Richard Knepper	Information Systems and Infrastructure Development in Poland: An Evaluation of the ePolska Plan
September 2004	Jennifer Maceyko	Political and Cultural Mobilization Among Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Russians, Poles, and Hungarians
April 2000	Dennis Metro-Roland	Recollections of a Movement: The Memory and History of the National Organization of People's Colleges in Hungary
April 1992	Christopher Meyer	Reform and Research and Development in Ex-Soviet Union and East Germany
April 1997	Allison Mindel	The Evolution of a Refugee Protection System: Hungary, a Case Study
September 1993	Suzanne Mullin	Russian Minority Reaction to the 1989 Baltic Language Laws
June 1999	Rebecca Olson	Decay, Renewal, Stagnation, and Innovation: Czech Libraries in Transition
April 2005	Steven Page	Conditionality and the Czech Administrative State: The European Union's Influence on Czech Reform
December 1997	Kendall Parks	NATO Expansion: A Case Study of the Realist Paradigm
September 1993	Jeffrey Pennington	From the Alfold to the Carpathians: A History of the Railroad between Debrecen and Yasinya
March 1993	Gregory Perchatsch	Solving Ukraine's Energy Crisis
April 2004	Emily Ray	Prague Library Flood of 2002: Crisis and Experimentation
April 1991	Douglas Reed	Soviet Military Power in the Baltics
December 1999	Daniel Sargent	Community Foundation Development in Poland: Building Cooperation in Support of Philantropy
September 2003	Daniel Saulean	Assessing Societies Exposed to Communism: From Nationalism to Democracy in Romania
May 1999	Ivan Shidlovsky	Cossacks: A New National Identity or National Guard?
January 1998	Robert Silber	The Hungarian Transformation 1989-1997: A Personal Perspective of the Political, Economic, and Social Changes
September 1996	Peggy Simpson	Polish Women in the Transition, 1990-96: Political and Economic Changes
May 1988	Guntis Smidchens	Life Stories of Four Chicago Latvians
January 1989	Brett Thomas	The Dilemma of the "Nation" in the German Democratic Republic 1967-1976
September 2005	Alice Tobin	Addressing Human Traffkicking in Ukraine: Leadership from the Third Sector and the Primacy of Prevention
September 1995	Joanna Wandycz	Radio Free Europe: A Key Player in the Downfall of Communism in Poland?
April 1989	Zenia Warlinski	The Coexistence of Official, Medicine and Medicinal Herbs in Poland in the Last Decade
May 1990	Tracie Wilson	Rewriting History and Identity: The German Minority in Modern Poland

Balkan topics (alphabetically by author)

August 1990	Duane De Luca	Soviet-Albanian Relations
June 1998	Theodore Donosky	Politics and the Media in Serbia: 1987-1997
February 2000	Walter Jensen III	Radio and Television Transmissions as a Continuation of War by Other Means: The Case of Bosnia
April 1994	Kelly Moore	What Happened to the Honeymoon? Domestic Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia
December 2007	Justin Otten	Power and Conflict: Economics, Ethno-nationalism, and the State of Security in the Republic of Macedonia since 2001
December 1992	Jennifer Paustenbaugh	Tsiganite, the Gypsies of Bulgaria: Assimilation, Rejection, and Stormy Co-existence
August 2002	Renne Traicova	An Assessment of the Health Reform in Bulagria (1989-2001): Concept vs. Reality
August 2002	Annisa Wanat	Bulgaria's Integration Process: A Journey from the Balkans into the European Union and NATO

Transcaucasian topics (alphabetically by author)

April 2004	Matthew Atkins	The Conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh: A look at the history, recent developments, and possible solutions
October 2003	Bill Eastwood	When Discourses Clash: Religious Violence in Georgia
December 1999	Sara Feinstein	A Business Incubator in the Transition Economices of Vietnam and Azerbaijan? A Comparative Perspective of Feasibility
May 2001	Eve Greenfield	Language of Dissent, or Language or Compromise? Native Language, Ethnicity and Bilingual Education Policy in the North Caucasus
June 2005	Lyndsay Miles	Russo-Georgian Post-Soviet Relations and the Impact of the Rose Revolution
May 2007	Denise Mishiwiec	Civil Society Development and Democratization in Azerbaijan: Assessing the Influence of Local NGOs
May 2000	Richard Reyno	The Russian Army in Chechnya, 1994-1996: A Toothless Bear?
April 1993	Richard Terrell	Soviet Nationality Policy and National Consciousness in the Transcaucasian Republics: Drawing Together or Tearing Apart?

Central Asian topics (alphabetically by author)

June 1995	Jeffrey Brown	Persistent Legacies, Precarious Gains: Problems of Post-Soviet Press in Central Asia
December 2006	Richard Fitzmaurice	Nonprofit Sector Development in Postcommunist Countries: The Cases of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan
May 2006	Stephanie Hockman	Conversation Superhighway: The Internet as Public Space in Uzbekistan
December 1997	Yusin Lee	The Process of National-Building in Kazakhstan Examined in Light of the Post-Colonial Countries' Experience: The Impact of Soviet Policy as Source and Obstacle to Nation-Building
April 2002	Michael Popovich	Tengiz Tease: A Comparison of Rentier State Characteristics and Kazakhstan's Oil-driven Economic Development Strategy
May 1991	William Raisner	The Effect of the Invasion of Afghanistan on Soviet-Pakistani Relations: An Historical Perspective
February 2007	Joseph Roberts	Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia
April 1989	Joyce Smith	The Corruption in Uzbekistan and the Trial of Churbanov
April 1989	Michael Smith	The Dynamics of Current Soviet Efforts to Develop Soviet Central Asia
January 1994	David Tyson	Literacy in Turkestan Prior to Soviet Rule

Environmental topics (alphabetically by author)

December 2001	Joshua Abrams	NGO's, Civil Society and the Disappearance of Environmental Activism in the Former Soviet Union
February 2003	Eardieth Anderson	Environmental Analysis of Privatization Programs
January 1993	Ted Barrall	Biological Weapons, Biotechnology and the Soviet Union
June 1998	Abigail Cleveland	Dividing the Waters: Russian Policy Toward the Legal Regime of the Caspian Sea
April 1990	William Crabtree	Environmental Cooperation among CMEA Member Countries
May 1992	William McFadden	The Environmental Impact of Transformation in the Former Soviet Union
April 1991	Donald McGuire	The Aral Sea Crisis
December 1993	Jason McNamara	Nuclear Power in the CMEA: The Ignalia AES and the Greifswald KKW--Similar Problems, Different Solutions
April 1990	Melinda Milenkovich	The Soviet Commitment to the Environment
May 2001	Eve Nilenders	Putting Pipe Dreams Into Practice: Investment in Water System Modernization in Estonia
April 1990	Edgar Peyronnin	Global Safety and the Environment: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle and the Emerging World Political Order
April 2000	Donald Pruefer	From Throw Weights to Metric Tons: The Nuclear Threat from Russia's Northern Fleet
June 1992	Daniel Shultz	Vavilov's Plant Science, Lysenko's Agrobiology and Soviet Agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s

Economic topics (alphabetically by author)

December 1992	Roger Bilas	Economic Development of the Soviet Far East
December 1996	Matthew DeGroot	The Cultural Dynamics of Capitalism in Russia
August 2003	Simone Giger	Shock Therapy in Russia
April 1991	Scott Griffith	The Opening of the Soviet Economy to Foreign Investment
October 1990	Erik Hartten	The Demise of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Its Integration into the World Economy via the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank
May 1999	Michael Hawn	The Economics of Romania's Agricultural Transformation
May 1999	Amy Hutchinson	The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Burdern Sharing and Reform: An Overview
December 1993	Sara-Jane Koncki	The Implemenation and Effects of the Soviet Economic Development Pattern in the Baltic Republics
April 1998	Russell McGlinchey	The Law on Production Sharing Agreements
May 1998	Zachary Morford	The Implementation of Bankruptcy Legislation: Lessons Provided by the Russian and Polish Experiences
September 1992	Patricia Oehme	Prospects for Foreign Economic Liberalization in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the Baltics and Russia
April 1990	Lisa Sentz	Regional Economic Autonomy in the USSR: The Baltic Region as a Case Study
November 1991	Lesle Sheffer	The Demise of the CMEA: Too Much of a Burden to Share
May 1990	J. Laurence Wight II	CMEA Standardization and the World Economy

Cultural and Intellectual topics (alphabetically by author)

November 1988	Nicholas Aleshin	Contemporary Nationalism and Marxism
July 1993	Melissa Caldwell	"Let's Eat!"--The Cultural and Social Significance of Food Rituals as Practiced in 19th Century Russia
April 1989	Virginia Clough	From Transmission Belto to Spark Plug: The Union of Cinematographers under Gorbachev
November 2007	Joseph James Crescente III	Performing Post-Sovietness: Verka Serduchka and the Hybridization of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine
June 1998	Katherin Currie	Nourishment for the Soul: The Importance of Culture during the Siege of Leningrad
May 1994	Andrew Curthoys	The Political Philosophy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
August 2005	Matthew C. Curtis	Petar II Petrovic Njegos and Gjergj Fishta: Composers of National Epics
April 1993	Linda Dausch	Gogol's Ruins: Fragmentation vs. Totality
July 2003	Alex Dunlop	Humanism and Nationalism among Serbian Intellectuals in the 1980s
December 2001	Kenneth Guy	The Re-Creation of History: Soviet Folklore as Propaganda in the 1930s
May 1998	Michael Katula	Sublimity and the Image of Night in the Fiction of Bruno Schulz
May 1995	David Korfhage	Interpretation and Reinterpretation of Rukopis Královédvorský and Rukopis Zelenohorský
August 2005	Aron Liptak	The Impact of Educational Corruption on Culture in the Newly Independent States
April 1993	Ellis (Spethman) Orsay	Pedagogical Science: Vicitim or Villian?
January 1994	Caterina Panos	"The Hardest Path": A Political Biography of Alexander Tvardovskii
April 1994	Valery Perry	A New Conscious Intelligentsia: The Disillusionment of a Generation of Communists
April 1995	Sudha Rajagopalan	The Bylina: Narrative and Hero in the Construction of Identity
November 1995	Mark Temple	The Politicization of History: Marshall Antonescu and Romania

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