Upcoming Issue

Forthcoming in Volume 71

Number 2, Summer 2012

DEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPES: NGOs, FBOs, and Democratization in Russia and Central Asia

Introduction: Transition to Where? Developing Post-Soviet Space
Ruth Mandel

Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and Potemkin NGOs: Making Sense of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia
Julie Hemment

Placing Faith in Development: How Moscow’s Religious Communities Contribute to a More Civil Society
Melissa L. Caldwell

Empowering Muslim Women: Independent Religious Fellowships in the Kyrgyz Republic
Noor O’Neill Borbieva

Doing the Democracy Dance in Kazakhstan: Democracy Development as Cultural Encounter
Sean R. Roberts

ARTICLES

Soviet “Blacks” and Place Making in Leningrad and Moscow
Jeff Sahadeo

“Swarm Life” and the Biology of War and Peace
Thomas Newlin

Burghers versus Bureaucrats: Enlightened Centralism, the Royal Towns, and the Case of the Propinacja Law in Poland-Lithuania, 1776-1793
Curtis G. Murphy