Russian Geo-Economics in the Eurasian Space

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES)

REES156 Sophomore Seminar: East European Jewish Experience Our concept of the life of East European Jews has been dominated by the Hollywood and Broadway blockbuster FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. The shtetl has been the paradigm of East European Jewish experience. But the powerful imagery of the shtetl is largely a creation of 19th-century writers. This course will take us beyond the shtetl and will loo...

Book Review The Economics of Russian Transition

This formidable book, organised into 26 chapters plus 6 scientific and statistical appendices, provides very detailed testimony and analysis of a group of economists, most members of the Institute of Economic Transition (IET) headed by Gaidar, intermittently at or near the helm of the Russian Government and the reforms during 1991–1993, and later leader of 'Democratic Choice', a liberal, market...

Chayanov and the Economics of the Russian Peasantry*

The years after 1900 saw the emergence of the “neo-populist” tradition as a leading tendency of economic thought in the study of the Russian peasantry. By the 1920s Aleksandr Vasil’evich Chayanov had become one of the most influential spokesmen of this tradition. His school was dispersed in 1930. But in the Western study of modern peasantries, his work is once more increasingly influential. The...

Conflict and Cooperation - the Integration and Balance of Geo-politics and Geo-economics

The deepening of global economic integration challenge the traditional concept of geopolitics, and thus put a profound impact on the inter-State conflict and cooperation situations. Some scholars argue that the traditional geopolitics is based on conflict and confrontation, while the geo-economics is based on cooperation, Therefore, currently we should take the geo-economic thought as theoretic...

The geo-attribute space: a general space-time-property representation