CULTURE MATTERS IN RUSSIA-AND EVERYWHERE : BACKDROP FOR THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT

This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. (Cover design by Katie Makrie.)

Valery Chirkov is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Health Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

James Fox is Director of Studies in History of Art at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and a BAFTA-nominated broadcaster. His many acclaimed BBC television documentaries include programs about British art, Japanese culture, and an enduringly popular history of color in art. The World According to Color is his first book for a trade audience.

KATHERINE TAYLOR is the author of Rules for Saying Goodbye and Valley Fever. She has won a Pushcart Prize, and her work has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares. She now lives in Los Angeles.