Annual statistical yearbook for the Russian Federation. Contains detailed demographic data for Russia related to administrative and territorial breakdown, population size, age and sex structure, spatial distribution, fertility/mortality, marriage/divorce and migration.

New Adversaries and New Opportunities. This volume aims to inspire students, researchers and citizens around the world to critically engage with Open Society values and to defend them wherever they are at risk.

Russians at the first sight. What is appropriate and not appropriate among Russians. Advanced reader will help students have better understanding of the Russian character.

The book, a collection of scholarly articles, edited by Russia's leading demographer, is the first major demographic history of Russia in the 20th century. The articles are based on a vast statistical database and the books offers many tables and graphs.

This book is a tribute to the memory of Victor Zaslavsky (1937–2009), sociologist, émigré from the Soviet Union, Canadian citizen, public intellectual, and keen observer of Eastern Europe.In seventeen essaysleading European, American and Russian scholars discuss the theory and the history of totalitarian society with a comparative approach. They revisit and reassess what Zaslavsky considered...

Annual statistical yearbook for the Russian Federation. Contains detailed demographic data for Russia related to administrative and territorial breakdown, population size, age and sex structure, spatial distribution, fertility/mortality, marriage/divorce and migration.

Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new...

The twenty-five essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elaborated in Post-Communist Mafia State, published in conjunction with this volume. Leading specialists analyze the manifestations of the current political regime in Hungary from twenty-five angles. Topics discussed include the ideology, constitutional issues, social policy, the judiciary, foreign relations,...