contributorsxvii(Academia, 2005, in Russian, co- edited with Vladimir Mukomel),
‘Socio- Cultural Factors and Russian Modernization’ in Waiting
for Reform under Putin and Medvedev (Palgrave Macmillan,
2012, edited by Lena Jonson and Stephen White), and ‘The
Ethno- political Pendulum: The Dynamics of the Relationship
Between Ethnic Minorities and Majorities in Post- Soviet Russia’
in Managing Ethnic Diversity in Russia (Routledge, 2013, edited
by Oleh Protsyk and Benedikt Harzl).
Peter Rutland is a Professor of Government at Wesleyan University
in Middletown, Connecticut, USA, where he has taught since
- He previously taught at the University of Texas, Austin,
USA and the University of London, UK. He has been a Fulbright
Fellow at the European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia
and Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. From 1995 to 1997 he
was Assistant Director of the Open Media Research Institute in
Prague. He is Associate Editor of Russian Review and Editor in
Chief of Nationalities Papers, the journal of the Association for
the Study of Nationalities. He blogs about nationalism at http://
nationalismwatch.wordpress.com. He is the author of The Myth
of the Plan (HarperCollins Publishers, 1985) and The Politics of
Industrial Stagnation in the Soviet Union (Cambridge University
Press, 1992) and editor of Business and State in Contemporary
Russia (Westview Press, 2001). His current research topics include
the state of research and development (R&D) in Russia and the
role of identity politics in the failure of democracy in Russia.
Igor Savin is a Researcher at the Centre for Central Eurasian
Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
(Moscow, Russia). His main research areas include ethnic identity
in Central Asia, ethno- political conflicts in Central Asia, micro-
level interaction between different ethno- cultural communities
in Southern Kazakhstan and Southern Kyrgyzstan and labour
migration from Central Asia to Russia and Kazakhstan, hereun-
der the integration of migrants into receiving societies. Savin is the
author of more than fifty publications in Russian and in English
on the above- mentioned topics. His main publications include the
book chapters ‘Titular Population Has the Edge in Kazakhstan’