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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: The Russian Dichotomy -- Part 1: Post-Soviet Expectations -- 1. Comrades in Arms: The Case for a Russian-American Defense Community -- 2. Russia in Search of Itself -- 3. Four Comments on Sergei Stankevich's "Russia in Search of Itself" -- 4. Why Russia Should Join NATO: From Containment to Concert -- Part 2: Russia: Ally or Adversary? -- 5. Dual Frustration: America, Russia, and the Persian Gulf -- 6. All the Way: Crafting a U.S.-Russian Alliance -- 7. Living with Russia -- 8. Geotherapy: Russia's Neuroses, and Ours -- 9. Don't Isolate Us: A Russian View of NATO Expansion -- Part 3: Culture and Society -- 10. Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and Russia's Ruin -- 11. Tainted Transactions: An Exchange -- 12. The Great Transformation -- 13. A Skeptical Look at Aid to Russia -- 14. Has Democracy Failed Russia? -- 15. The Russian Aid Mess -- 16. Russia's Crisis, America's Complicity -- Part 4: Russia Under Putin -- 17. Realism about Russia -- 18. Odom's Russia: A Forum -- 19. The Higher Police -- 20. Moscow Nights, Eurasian Dreams -- Afterword

1. Methodology, theoretical considerations and the structure of the study -- 2. Public and private cycles of socio-political life in Russia -- 3. The public sphere and the state in Russia -- 4. A kind of society : the nature of political radicalism in modern Russia -- 5. State-sponsored civic associations in Russia : systemic integration or a 'war of position'? -- 6. Foreign-sponsored associations in Russia : themes and problems -- 7. Grassroots movements in modern Russia : a cause for optimism? -- 8. Conclusion.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Towards a Working Class Society: the Russian Class Structure in the 1990s -- 2 Social Mobility in Russian Society -- 3 Labour Markets in Semi-Market Society -- 4 Change and Continuity in Russian Work Organization -- 5 Reproduction and Classes During Economic Crises -- 6 Mental Climate in Russia -- 7 Values in Contemporary Russian Society -- 8 Restoration of Class Society in Russia? -- Bibliography -- Index.

When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by failure to commercialize and implement.For three centuries, Graham shows, Russia has been adept at developing technical ideas but abysmal at benefiting from them. From the seventeenth-century arms industry through twentieth-century Nobel-awarded work in lasers, Russia has failed to sustain its technological inventiveness. Graham identifies a range of conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that provides investment opportunities; a legal system that protects intellectual property; a political system that encourages innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles.But Graham points to new connections between Western companies and Russian researchers, new research institutions, a national focus on nanotechnology, and the establishment of Skolkovo, "a new technology city." Today, he argues, Russia has the best chance in its history to break its pattern of technological failure.

Over the last fifteen years, Russia has become a larger part of the global economy-and in the years ahead, it will continue to grow in prominence. If you want to improve your investment endeavors in this market, you must first understand how it operates. With Out of the Red as your guide, you'll become familiar with all the opportunities this country has to offer and learn how to make the most informed investing decision within this emerging arena.

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