The modern history of Russia began with the Russian Republic of the Soviet Union gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1988–1991,proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990,and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later. The Russian SFSR was the largest republic of the Soviet Union,but it had no significant independence before,being the only Soviet republic to not have its own branch of the Communist Party.
LDPR —Liberal Democratic Party of Russia is a Russian ultranationalist and right-wing populist political party in Russia. It succeeded the Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (LDPSU) in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The party was led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky since its inception until his death in April 2022. Opposing both communism and capitalism of the 1990s,the party scored a major success in the 1993 Duma elections with almost 23% of the vote,giving it 64 seats of the 450 seats in the State Duma. In the 2021 elections,the party received 7.55% of the vote,giving it 21 seats.
Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov is a Russian politician and economist. He served as the mayor of Moscow from 1991 until he resigned in 1992.
Richard Sakwa is a British political scientist and a former professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent,a senior research fellow at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow,and an honorary professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University. He has written books about Russian,Central and Eastern European communist and post-communist politics.
Timothy David Snyder is an American historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe,the Soviet Union,and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
Sergey Alexandrovich Karaganov is a Russian political scientist who heads the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy,a security analytical institution founded by Vitaly Shlykov. He is also the dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at Moscow's Higher School of Economics. Karaganov was a close associate of Yevgeny Primakov,and has been Presidential Advisor to both Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He is considered close to Putin and Sergey Lavrov.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1961 to 1990. He later stood as a political independent,during which time he was viewed as being ideologically aligned with liberalism.
The Foundations of Geopolitics:The Geopolitical Future of Russia is a geopolitical book by Aleksandr Dugin. Its publication in 1997 was well received in Russia;it has had significant influence within the Russian military,police,and foreign policy elites,and has been used as a textbook in the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian military. Powerful Russian political figures subsequently took an interest in Dugin,a Russian political analyst who espouses an ultranationalist and neo-fascist ideology based on his idea of neo-Eurasianism,who has developed a close relationship with Russia's Academy of the General Staff.
The Oligarchs:Wealth and Power in the New Russia is a 2001 non-fiction book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Washington Post contributing editor David E. Hoffman. The book chronicles events of the transitional period in Russia,from the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s,and the subsequent privatization in Russia,to the 1996 presidential election,the 1998 Russian financial crisis,and Vladimir Putin's rise to power in the late 1990s.
The Russian Anarchists is a history book by Paul Avrich about the Russian anarchist movement from the 19th century to the Bolshevik revolution.
The Mikhail Gorbachev presidential campaign,1996 was an electoral campaign effort by former President of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1996 Russian presidential election. Gorbachev's candidacy was beset by the obstacles of both minimal media coverage and a high level of disdain towards him amongst the Russian populace. Gorbachev's candidacy ended in defeat during the first round of the election. The effort was the first,and only,electoral campaign of Gorbachev's post-Soviet political career.
Electoral history of Boris Yeltsin,1st President of Russia.
The Unknown Revolution is a 1947 history of the Russian Revolution by Voline.
Conservatism in Russia is a broad system of political beliefs in Russia that is characterized by support for Orthodox values,Russian imperialism,statism,economic interventionism,advocacy for the historical Russian sphere of influence,and a rejection of late modernist era Western culture.
Sketches from a Secret War:A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine is a 2005 book by Timothy Snyder. It focuses on the interwar history of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Ukraine through the prism of the life of Henryk Józewski. Its conclusions consist partly of new research based on the archives of the Polish military.
Marshall Sharon Shatz is an American historian and scholar of Russia.
Christopher Read is a British historian of the Soviet Union.
This is a select bibliography of English-language books and journal articles about the history of Ukraine. Book entries have references to journal reviews about them when helpful and available. Additional bibliographies can be found in many of the book-length works listed below. See the bibliography section for several additional book and chapter-length bibliographies from academic publishers and online bibliographies from historical associations and academic institutions.
This is a select bibliography of English language books and journal articles about the history of Russia and its empire from 1991 to present. It specifically excludes topics related to the Dissolution of the Soviet Union;see Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union for information on this subject. This bibliography is restricted to works about Russian history,and specifically excludes items such modern travel logs and guide books,popular culture,etc.
