Directory of Russian Federation Resources

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All sites relating to the history of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Subcategories

• Conflict in Chechnya
• Elections
• Yeltsin, Boris

Resources in This Category

• Anatoliy Sergeevich Kulikov

  http://www.fas.org/irp/world/russia/mvd/kulikov.htm
  U.S. Army's biography of the former former head of Internal Forces of the USSR and Russia's chief of police after the fall of communism.

• Civil War in Moscow

  http://www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/mes/russia/period/october93.html
  A short history of the events in Moscow in October 1993. Includes links to photographs.

• Economic Reform in Former Communist Systems

  http://eserver.org/history/privatization-problems.txt
  A study of the problems of privatizing state enterprises in Russia and other East European countries.

• General Igor Rodionov

  http://www.fas.org/news/russia/1997/msg00027e.htm
  A U.S. Army biography of the life and military career of the Russian Minister of Defense.

• Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy

  http://www.bu.edu/iscip/
  Coverage of political, international, and security affairs in Russian Federation. Includes news, analysis, a journal, occasional papers, a searchable database of articles, and links to related papers.

• Pondering a Post-Cold War Meeting of the Minds

  http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/20/cold.war/
  A short essay on the many of the domestic problems facing the Russians since the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War.

• The USSR in 1991: The Implosion of a Superpower

  http://eserver.org/history/ussr-in-1991.txt
  A discussion and analysis of the Soviet Union's collapse in the early 1990s.

• Vladimir Putin: Spy Turned Politician

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/415124.stm
  Article on a former KGB operative and the leading candidate in the 2000 Russian presidential elections. Discusses the dependency of his political popularity on Russia's military success in Chechnya.

• Who Lost Russia?

  http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/HL629.cfm
  A discussion of the failure of reform in many aspects of domestic politics and policy in Russia since the end of the Cold War.

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