The Contributors

Vladimir Gimpelson is Director of the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA), Bonn, Germany. His most recent book (coauthored with D. Lippoldt) is The Russian Labour Market: Between Transition and Turmoil (2001).

Daniel Treisman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of After the Deluge: Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia (1999) and (with Andrei Shleifer) Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia (2000).

Jakub Zielinski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Ohio State University.

Michael McFaul is Associate Professor of Political Science and Hoover Research Fellow at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His latest book is Russia's Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin (2001).

Svante E. Cornell is Editor of the Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, Researcher at the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and Lecturer in the Departments of Peace and Conflict Research and East European Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Small Nations and Great Powers: A Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict in the Caucasus (2001).