Russia: A Crisis of Post-Imperial Viability

Russians' "Impressionable Years": Life Experience During the Exit from Communism and Putin-Era Beliefs

“…In the wake of Gorbachev's glasnost' reforms, popular pro-independence nationality movements arose in many. But that was not the case in Russia (Barber, 1994). 15…”

“…15 John Barber (1994) writes: "One factor … distinguished Russia from the other republics challenging the Soviet government's authority. Elsewhere mass organizations had emerged from 1988 onwards to campaign for nationalist demands and had played an important role in the all-union election of 1989 and the republic elections of 1990."…”

Sir Frederick Jackson: The Explorer and the Governor

“…This question would remain a hot debate item for the British, and by 1905 Sadler and the CO created a crude land policy that attempted to quell these problems, but his administration still fell short in dealing with the problem of land distribution and acquirement completely. 149 Sadler knew that these problems would lead to bigger issues, but the slow process of land distribution was crippling the administration and not promoting economic growth by any stretch of the word.…”