Böcker av Juliet Johnson

The volume discusses and compares the role of Orthodoxy and Islam in Russia, in forging identity in the modern era and brings a blend of sociological, historical, linguistic and geographic scholarship to the problem of post-Soviet Russian identity. It is suitable for courses on post-Soviet politics, Russian studies, religion and political culture.

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary...

After the breakup of the USSR, it briefly appeared as though Russia's emerging commercial banks might act as engines of growth for a new capitalist economy. However, despite more than a decade of "reforms," Russia's financial system collapsed in 1998...