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I. Reform Maximalists1. Boris Yeltsin: The Wrecking Ball2. Anatoly Chubais: The Neo-Bolshevik Privatizer3. Yegor Gaidar: The Shock Therapist4. Boris Nemtsov: The Political Activist5. Mikhail Kasyanov: The Pro-Market Prime Minister6. Strobe Talbott: Bill Clinton's Russia HandII. Reform Gradualists7. Grigory Yavlinsky: The Permanent Oppositionist8. Sergei Rogov: In Search of Checks and Balances at Home and Abroad9. Nodari Simonia: The Pro-Putin Vote10. George Soros: The Active PhilanthropistIII. Five Policy Perspectives11. Sergei Dubinin: Monopoly Sector Reform in Progress12. Oleg Vyugin: Monetary Policy in Action13. Boris Jordan: Media Man and Investor14. Anatoly Vishnevsky: Demographic Dilemmas15. Jack Matlock Jr.: The Road AheadIV. The Role of History16. Martin Malia: History Lessons17. Richard Pipes: The Past in the Present.

Die Studie beschreibt die Struktur, Stärken und Traditionen des russischen Hochschul- und Forschungssystems, analysiert den dringendsten Reformbedarf und empfiehlt Maßnahmen zur Beseitigung der gravierendsten Mängel in bezug auf die Qualität der Lehre, die Diversifizierung des Bildungsangebotes im Tertiärbereich, die Performance der universitären und außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen sowie die Finanzierung und das Management von Wissenschaft und Forschung. Gliederung: 1. The Review and the Context of Higher Education in the Russian Federation. - 2. Issues and Barriers at the Secondary/Tertiary Interface. - 3. Higher Vocational/Professional Education. - 4. Quality and Standards. - 5. Higher Education at a Distance. - 6. Research in Higher Education. - 7. Students and Teachers. - 8. Financing Higher Education. - 9. Summary Recommendations. - Annex 1. List of Examiners. - Annex 2. Statistical Tables. (HoF/Text übernommen)

Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Problems and Perspectives of Territories´ Development in Macro-level Socio-economic Systems -- The Subjective Approach to Accessing the Quality of Life in the Regions of Russia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- References -- Issues of Effectiveness of Communal Service in View of Variability of Apartment Blocks Management System -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Establishing a Context -- 1.2 Literature Review -- 1.3 Establishing a Research Gap -- 1.4 Aim of the Study -- 2 Methodological Framework -- 2.1 Research Methods -- 2.2 Research Base -- 2.3 Stages of the Research -- 3 Results and Discussions -- 3.1 Characteristics of Ways of Apartment Blocks Management -- 3.2 Peculiarities of Provision of Communal Services with Multi-level Model of Buildings Management -- 3.3 Council of an Apartment Block as an Element of Proper Provision of Communal Services -- 3.4 Protection of Consumers´ Rights During Provision of Communal Services -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Settlement System of Rural Areas: Trends and Spatial Aspects of Development -- References -- Market-Oriented Approach to Management of Territorial Development: Discussion of Debatable Issues -- 1 Overcoming of Mythology and Formation of Methodology of ``Place Marketing´´ -- 2 Place Marketing: From the Concept to the Mechanism -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Regional and Climatic and Genetic and Physiological Determinants of Lawmaking Activities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 2.1 Research Methods -- 2.2 Experimental Basis of the Research -- 2.3 Stages of the Research -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussions -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Strategic Planning of Regional Ecological Development: Adaptation of Elinor Ostrom´s Principles in Russia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Materials and Methods -- 3 Results and Discussion

This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive overview of regulations concerning rural women: their employment patterns; marriages, divorces and family life; and, issues with health and raising children. Rural lives in the Soviet Union were often dramatically different from the common narrative of the Soviet history, and even during the Khrushch

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Missing in Translation: Re-conceptualizing Russia's Developmental State -- Chapter Two. The Long Road to Normalcy: Where Russia Now Stands -- Chapter Three. The Sovereign Bureaucracy in Russia's Modernizations -- Chapter Four. The Changing Dynamics of Russian Politics -- Chapter Five. Leadership and the Politics of Modernization -- Chapter Six. The Sociology of Post-reform Russia -- Chapter Seven. Elites: The Choice for Modernization -- Chapter Eight. Education for an Innovative Russia -- Chapter Nine. Health and Health Care in Russia Today and Tomorrow -- Chapter Ten. The Imaginary Curtain -- Chapter Eleven. What Kind of a Europe for What Kind of Russia -- Chapter Twelve. The Obama Administration's "Reset Button" for Russia -- Chapter Thirteen. Russia: The Eastern Dimension -- Chapter Fourteen. Russia and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia: Relations Transformed -- Chapter Fifteen. Of Power and Greatness -- Afterword. Russia and the West: Toward Understanding -- Contributors -- Index