After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition

This collection of essays is derived from a conference convened at Princeton University marking the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some of the best minds in post-Soviet studies focused on the task of identifying how the post-communist experience with transition has confirmed or confounded conventional theories of political and economic development. The result is a rich array of writings examining vital aspects of the transitional decade following the Soviet collapse and the comparative lessons learned.

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss taught in the Politics Department and at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University before becoming the Director of the Russia and Eurasia Project at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Work has been funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and Princeton University's Center of International Studies. She is a frequent traveler to Russia and the former Soviet Union. Her other books include Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance (Princeton University Press, 1997) and Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).