Russia: a long view

Modern economic growth

Economic determinism and the twentieth-century experience

The general and the particular in modern economic growth

Traditional agrarian society

A different path

The phenomenon of antiquity

Capitalism and the rise of Europe

Particular features of Russia's economic development

The collapse of an empire

The postsocialist crisis and recovery growth

The dynamics of population and international migration

The state burden on the economy

The formation and crisis of systems of social safeguards

The evolution of education and healthcare systems

The transformation of the system for manning the armed forces

On the stability and flexibility of political systems.