Supplemental Materials
Russia's Transformation: Challenges for U.S. Policy
Russia's Transformation: Challenges for U.S. Policy helps students consider the U.S. relationship with Russia and its neighbors. Students survey the economic issues and political developments that have shaped the outlook of policymakers in the Kremlin.
Online Resources from the Choices Program
Russia
Includes Map of Russia today, Russian energy pipelines, color image of Moscow, color image of Orange Revolution, and graph of Russian GDP since end of the Soviet Union.
Multimedia
You Tube
An English language Russian news produced in Russia.
Weblinks
Johnson’s Russia List
An archive of contemporary domestic, international, and Russian press accounts about current events in Russia.The New York Times
has articles and information about Russia that is updated frequently.Lenin’s Mausoleum
A Russian website that explores Lenin’s tomb, offers audio of Stalin and Lenin, and a poll as to whether Lenin should be buried.Meeting of Frontiers
A bilingual (Russian-English) Library of Congress website that offers a multi-media examination of the exploration and settlement of the Russian-American frontier in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
Books
Figes, Orlando. Natasha’s Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (New York: Henry Holt, 2002). 544 pages.
Goldman, Marshall I. Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008). 244 pages.
Hoffman, David E. Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia (New York: Public Affairs, 2001). 567 pages.
Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Imperium (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994). 331 pages.
Kotkin, Stephen. Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). 245 pages.
Pelevin, Victor. A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories (New York: New Directions, 1998). 256 pages.
Remnick, David. Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New York: Random House, 1993). 576 pages.