Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Jessica allina-pisano is an Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa. Her publi­ cations include T hePost-SovietPotemkin Village:PoliticsandPropertyRightsintheBlack Earth(2008) as well as articles in numer­ ous journals and chapters in edited volumes. anders aslund is a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He is the author of nine boks, including HowUkraineB ecam eaMarketEconom yand Democracy(2009) and R ussia'sCapitalist Revolution:WhyMarketReformS ucceededand DemocracyFailed(2007). timothy frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy at Columbia University and the Harriman Institute. marshall Goldman, the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus, Wellesley and Senior Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, is the author ofPetrostate:Putin,Power,and theNewR ussia(2008). dale herspring,University Distinguished Professor at Kansas State University, is a retired US diplomat and Navy captain. He is the author or editor o f 12 books and more than 90 articles and book chapters dealing with Soviet/ Russian, American, Polish and German politics, primarily civil-militaiy relations. His most recent book is Rumsfeld'sWars: TheArroganceofPower(2008). dîna khapaeva is Director for Research and Professor of History at the Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (St Petersburg). Author of GothicSociety: MorphologyofANightmare(2007), among others, her research interests include histoiy and memory, intellectual history, and Soviet history. andrei kortunov is President of the Moscow-based New Eurasia Foundation. He has managed a number of educationfocused programs in Russia, working closely with government agencies, higher education institutions, interna­ tional consultancies, and foreign foun­ dations. tom ila lankina is a Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University’s Local Governance Research Unit. alena ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She is author of many articles and books including How RussiaReally Works 2006) and Russia’s EconomyofFavors (1998) fyodor lukyanov is the Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow-based Russiain Global Affairs, the foremostjournal ofRussia’s perspective on global economic and social issues. alexei v. malashenko is a Scholar-inResidence , and Cochair of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. The author of 14 books and numerous working papers and articles, his recent publications include “Russia and the Muslim World” (2008) and Religionand Conflict(2007). nikolay m itro khin is a Research Fellow at the University of Bremen’s Research Center for East European Studies. He is the author of (in Russian) TheRussian Orthodox Church: Contemporary Consistence andActualProblems (2004,2006) and RussianParly: TheRussianNationalist Movement in the USSR, 1953-1985 (2003). sergei oushakine is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Associate Faculty in the Department ofAnthropology, Princeton University. Author of ThePatriotism ofDespair Nation, War, and Lossin Russia (2009), he has also published articles in, among others, PublicCulture, AmericanAnthropologist, and the RussianReview. andrei yakovlev is the Director ofthe Institute for Industrial and Market Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. yevgeny yasin is a former Minister of the Economy ofthe Russian Federation and the current Academic Supervisor of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. ...