Introduction: Eurasian integration, central Asia and the new geopolitics of energy / Roger E. Kanet and Matthew Sussex -- Part I. The geopolitics of Eurasia: growing east-west confrontation -- From retrenchment to revanchism--and back again? Russian grand strategy in the Eurasian heartland /...

Did Russia's emancipated serfs really pay too much for too little land? : statistical anomalies and long-tailed distributions -- On good numbers and bad : Malthus, population trends, and peasant standard of living in late Imperial Russia -- Serfs in Imperial Russia demographic insights -- Serf...

1. Introduction: re-reading a program for an economic sociology of post-socialism -- 2. Toward capitalism without capitalists -- 2.1. A reminder of Soviet factory regime -- 2.2. The failure of 'market socialism': micro-outcomes of a macro-event -- 2.3. Privatization, marketization and...

In Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe, Colin Crouch mounts an impressive comparative analysis to uncover the contrasting ways in which different countries have sought to address the exacerbated social risks, both 'new' and 'old', unleashed by the financial and economic crisis. It...