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Abstract: This is the first paperback edition of Anatoly M. Khazanov's famous comparative study of pastoral nomadism. Hailed by reviewers as "majestic and magisterial, " Nomads and the Outside World was first published in English in 1984. With the author's new introduction and updated bibliography, this classic is now available in an edition accessible to students.

Abstract: Macroeconomic developments, Charles Wyplosz, INSEAD Paris, Jacques Delpla Macroeconomic policy in Russia, Boris Fedorov, MP Russian State Duma The political economy of reform, Sergie Vasiliev, Deputy Minister of the Economy, Russia The role of the west , Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University The break-up of the ruble zone. Brigitte Granville, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London Restructuring Russia , Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University Achievements of privatisation, Anatoly Chubais, Privatisation Committee of Russia, Maria Vishnevskaya Rising mortality and its causes, Judith Shapiro, University of London Social safety net and enterprise restructuring, Richard Layard and Andrea Richter, London School of Economics Lessons from the Russian reform, Andrei Illarionov, Centre for Economic Reform, Moscow Politics of the Economic Reform, Anders Aslund, Stockholm Institute of Soviet and East European Economics.

Abstract: List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Russian theatre in world theatre Robert Leach Russian theatre in Russian culture Victor Borovsky 1. The origins of the Russian theatre Catriona Kelly 2. The organisation of the Russian theatre, 1645-1763 Victor Borovsky 3. The emergence of the Russian theatre, 1763-1800 Victor Borovsky 4. Writers and repertoires, 1800-1850 A. D. P. Briggs 5. Actors and acting, 1820-1850 Anatoly Altschuller 6. Popular, provincial and amateur theatres, 1820-1900 Catriona Kelly 7. Realism in the Russian theatre, 1850-1882 Cynthia Marsh 8. Aleksandr Ostrovsky - dramatist and director Kate Sealey Rahman 9. The Russian Imperial Ballet Andy Adamson 10. Russian opera John Warrack 11. Imperial and private theatres, 1882-1905 Arkady Ostrovsky 12. Stanislavsky and the Moscow Art Theatre, 1898-1938 Jean Benedetti 13. The Silver Age, 1905-1917 Spencer Golub 14. Revolutionary theatre, 1917-1930 Robert Leach 15. The Theatre and Socialist Realism, 1929-1953 Inna Solovyova 16. The 'thaw' and after, 1953-1986 Birgit Beumers 17. Russian theatre in the post-communist era Anatoly Smeliansky 18. Russian theatre and Western theatres Robert Leach Select bibliography Index.

Abstract: Preface Overview * Age Structures of the Former Soviet Republics Victoria A. Velkoff. * The Demographic Situation in Post-Soviet Russia Victor Perevedentsev. Basic Demographic Processes * Fertility and Nuptiality in Russia: Problems and Prospects Sergey Zakharov. * Russian Mortality: Past Negative Trends and Recent Improvements Anatoly Vishnevsky and Vladimir Shkolnikov. * The Geodemography of Infant Mortality in the Soviet Union, 1950-1990 Barbara A. Anderson and Brian D. Silver. Migration and Conflict * Recent Migration Trends in Russia Zhanna Zayonchkovskaya. * Chinese Demographic Expansion into Russia: Myth or Inevitability? Zhanna Zayonchkovskaya. * Potential Migration of Russian Speaking Population from Central Asia to Russia Galina Vitkovskaya. * The Causes and Demographic-Social Consequences of Inter-Ethnic and Regional Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Union Vladimir Mukomel and Emil Payin. Urban and Rural Processes * Turning Points and Trends in Russias Urbanization Olga Medvedkov and Yuri Medvedkov. * Rural Population Change and Agriculture Grigory Ioffe and Tatyana Nefedova. * Conclusion