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Post-Communist Russia and the world
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Part I: Bibliographies
Post-Communist Russia and Africa
Post-Communist Russia and Asia
Post-Communist Russia and Central Asia
Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe
Post-Communist Russia and Latin America
Post-Communist Russia and the Middle East
Post-Communist Russia and the United States
Post-Communist Russia and Western Europe
Post-Communist Russia and the world
Part II: Other resources
Published documents
Newspaper articles
Internet resources
Politicheskii atlas sovremennosti (2005- )
Research institutes and think tanks: The following is a short list of Russian research institutes that engage in various aspects of the large question of Russia’s interaction with the world. As a quick scan of these websites will make it clear, these institutes have been very active in recent years in areas such as conferencing, consulting, educating, and publishing. Hopefully, they will prove to be a useful guide to the vast sphere of information and comments that these institutes have been producing over the years, and thus contribute to a better understanding of post-Communist Russia’s position, both subjective and objective, in the world.
Akademiia Geopoliticheskikh Problem (1999- ): Non-governmental institute specializing in geopolitics of
Russia.
Fond "Edinstvo vo Imia Rossii" (2003- ): Actively communicates with the governing elite with policy inputs.
Fond "Nasledie Evrazii" (2004- ): Broad interest in the SNG countries.
Fond "Novaia Evraziia" (2004- ): Research and philanthropic activities focusing on the social development
of the SNG countries.
Fond El'tsina (2000- ): Research, education, publishing related to Russia under President Yeltsin.
Fond "Liberal'naia Missiia" (2000- ): Propagation of liberal agenda in Russia through research, public
discussions, publishing.
INO-TSentr (Informatsiia. Nauka. Obrazovanie) (2002- ): Philanthropic organization promoting the
democratic values through the development of the humanities and social sciences. Many of the titles in
the series "Islam v Rossii" (2007- ) are available online on its website.
Insitut Ekonomicheskogo Analiza: Nezavisimye Issledovaniia Rossiiskoi Ekonomiki (1994- ): Liberal-
leaning economic research institute run by a former Putin aid turned oppositionist, Andrei Illarionov
(1961- ).
Institut Afriki RAN (1959- ): African studies institute under the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Institut Blizhnego Vostoka (1993- ): Independent Near Eastern studies institute.
Institut Dal'nego Vostoka RAN (1966- ): Far Eastern studies institute under the Russian Academy of
Sciences.
Institut Ekonomicheskoi Politiki imeni E. T. Gaidar (Institut Gaidara) (1990- ): Specializes in the economic
policies of the Russian government.
Institut Evropy RAN (1987- ): European studies institute under the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Institut Latinskoi Ameriki RAN: Latin American studies institute under the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Institut Mirovoi Ekonomiki i Mezhdunarodnykh Otnoshenii RAN (1925- ): Probably one of the most important
research institutes, in relation to the topic "Post-Communist Russia and the world," for what it tells
about how Russia sees itself and the world.
Institut Obshchestvennogo Proektirovaniia (2004- ): "Liberal-conservative" research institute connected with
Edinaia Rossiia.
Institut Politicheskogo i Voennogo Analiza (1996- ): Involved in election campaign consulting, with its
research specialties in geopolitics, history, and military affairs.
Institut Prava i Publichnoi Politiki (1993- ): Research institute of liberal-democratic stripe specializing in
international law and comparative constitutional law.
Institut Problem Mezhdunarodnoi Bezopasnosti RAN (1999- ): Multidisciplinary approach to national and
international security issues. Provides access to several interesting official documents such as
"Kontseptsiia natsional'noi bezopasnosti" (2000).
Institut Sovremennogo Razvitiia (2008- ): Relatively new, frequently quoted by the acronym INSOR, research
institute supporting D. Medvedev's modernization agenda.
Institut SShA i Kanady RAN (1967- ): North American studies institute under the Russian Academy of
Sciences. The research-guide style electronic library on its website is particularly notable.
Institut Stran SNG (Institut Diaspory i Integratsii) (1996- ): Articulation of Russia's interests in the former
Soviet seems to summarize well its research focus.
Institut Strategicheskikh Otsenok i Analiza (2000- ): Its quarterly Vestnik analitiki (2001- ), accessible on
the website, should be quite pertinent to the topic of this research guide.
Moskovskii Tsentr Karnegi: Fond Karnegi za Mezhdunarodnyi Mir: One of the four overseas subdivisions of
the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Rossiiskii Institut Strategicheskikh Issledovanii (1992- ): Government research institute specializing in national
security and foreign policies. It publishes a quarterly Problemy natsional'noi strategii (2009- ).
Rossiiskii Sovet po Mezhdunarodnym Delam (2010- ): Kremlin-created state council that seems more readily
recognizable by the line-up of its board of trustees (headed by Evgenii Primakov) than its scholarly
productivity (a few working papers, reports, and monographs). But its website is well-organized and well-
curated as a guide to resources about Russia's foreign affairs.
Sovet po Vneshnei i Oboronnoi Politiki (1992- ): Council that grew out of an initiative of the Russian upper classes to
steer Russia's future after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its scholarly and publishing activities seem to be well
chronicled, and their results accessible, on its website.
TSentr Analiza Strategii i Tekhnologii (1997- ): Research in defense industry and military technology. Publishes a bimonthly Eksport
vooruzhenii.
TSentr Energetiki i Bezopasnosti (2008- ): Research in atomic energy and non-proliferation of nuclear arms. Publishes Iadernyi klub.
TSentr Issledovanii Postindustrial'nogo Obshchestva (1997- ): Engages mainly in ideological and theoretical research about "post-industrial
society." It publishes the monthly Svobodnaia mysl' that continues Kommunist (1952-1991).
TSentr Kurginiana (1990- )
TSentr Mezhdunarodnogo Sotrudnichestva po Razvitiu Obrazovaniia (2008- )
TSentr Politicheskikh Issledovanii Rossii (1994- )
TSentr Politicheskikh Tekhnologii
TSentr Politicheskoi Informatsii (1992- )
TSentr Politicheskoi Kon"iunktury Rossii (1992- )
TSentr Problemnogo Analiza i Gosudarstvenno-Upravlencheskogo Proektirovaniia
TSentr Strategicheskikh Razrabotok (1999- )
Public opinion polling centers/projects:
Evraziiskii monitor (2004- ): Multinational (mainly of Russia and the former Soviet republics) project
monitoring the public opinion of the former Soviet Union. It points to the European Commission's
Eurobarometer surveys as its inspiration.
Fond Obshchestvennoe Mnenie (FOM) (1992- ): Highly appraised research company of contemporary Russia
engaged in a broad spectrum of research areas and topics such as: security and law, society, labor
and household, future, politics, mass media and Internet, world, past, and economy). Its research highlights
are published in the week bulletin Dominanty (2001- ), all available online on its website.
Levada-Tsentr: Analiticheskii Tsentr Iuriia-Levady (2003- ): One of the four (along with FOM, TSIRKON,
and VTSIOM) foremost public opinion polling centers of contemporary Russia. It publishes a quarterly,
Vestnik obshchestvennogo mnenii (1993- ), and an annual, Obshchestvennoe mnenie (2008- ), both
accessible in part on the center's website.
TSentr Intellektual’nykh Resursov i Kooperatsii v Oblasti Obshchestvennykh Nauk (TSIRKON) (1989- ): A
prominent research company that conducts market and sociological research and provides consulting. Its
website, in the section "Publikatsii," provides full-text access to a good number of its research results.
Vserossiiskii Tsentr Izucheniia Obshchestvennogo Mneniia (VTSIOM) (1987- ): The first all-union level
public opinion polling institutes and also associated with such familiar sociologists as T. I. Zaslavskaia,
IU. A. Levada, B. A. Grushin, it still remains one of the foremost public opinion pollings centers of
contemporary Russia. It publishes a bimonthly Monitoring obshchestvennogo mneniia.
