The rise and fall of multinational empires have indelibly transformed the political-economic history of Eastern Europe - redrawing its borders, recasting its economic institutions, and redefining the identities of its nations. Just as the political economy of interwar Eastern Europe was shaped...

The collapse of central authority in the Soviet Union in 1991 ushered in a period of revolutionary transformations for the states that emerged in its wake. The leaders of Russia, the USSR's successor, since then have struggled to reestablish central authority while also seeking to avoid further...