Main group 1

• Appel, Hilary; Orenstein, Mitchell A., From triumph to crisis: neoliberal economic reform in postcommunist countries, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018Compulsory*
• Frye, Timothy, Property rights and property wrongs: how power, institutions, and norms shape economic conflict in Russia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017Compulsory*
• Hale, Henry E., Patronal politics: Eurasian regime dynamics in comparative perspective, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2015 [dvs 2014]Compulsory*
• Butler, William Elliott, Russian law and legal institutions, Second edition., [London], Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing, 2018Compulsory*
• Henderson, Jane, The constitution of the Russian federation: a contextual analysis, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011Compulsory*
• Alexeev, Michael V.; Weber, Shlomo, The Oxford handbook of the Russian economy, New York, Oxford University Press, cop. 2013Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)

Articles

Bedford, Sofie, and Laurent Vinatier (2019) 'Resisting the Irresistible: 'Failed Opposition' in Azerbaijan and Belarus Revisited', Government and Opposition 54.4: 686-714.

Viktorov, Ilja (2015) 'The State, Informal Networks, and Financial Market Regulation in Post-Soviet Russia, 1990-2008', Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 42, 1.

Vernikov, Andrei (2012) 'The Impact of State-Controlled Banks on the Russian Banking Sector', Eurasian Geography and Economics, 52 (2), pp. 250-266.

Book chapter

• Fortescue, Stephen, The Political Economy of Russia: is it changing?, Part of: The Russian economy under Putin, London, Routledge, [2019]

Literature for the seminars will be added.

* Compulsory