Russia’s Imperial Overstretch, January 21, 2026 https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/russias-imperial-overstretch/
Selected readings
Mikhail Alekseev, editor, Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia: A Federation Imperiled (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999).
Anders Aslund and Andrew Kuchins, The Russia Balance Sheet (Peterson Institute, 2009)
Anders Aslund et al, eds, Russia After the Global Economic Crisis (Peterson Institute, 2010), esp. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, “Federalism in Russia,” and Aslund, Gazprom: Challenged Giant in Need of Reform.”
Janusz Bugajski, Failed State: A Guide to Russia’s Rupture (Washington DC: Jamestown Foundation, 2022).
Timothy Colton & Robert Levgold, eds, After the Soviet Union: From Empire to Nations (New York, Norton, 1992).
Karen Dawisha & Bruce Parrott, Russia and the New States of Eurasia (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press, 1994).
Karen Dawisha & Bruce Parrott, eds, The End of Empire? (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe , 1997).
Alexander Dugin, The Foundations of Geopolitics, (Moscow: Arktogeia, 2000; originally published in 1997).
John B. Dunlop, The Rise of Russia & the Fall of the Soviet Empire (Princeton, 1993)
Nicholas Eberstadt, Russia’s Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications (National Bureau of Asian Research, 2010).
Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, Decline of an Empire: The Soviet Socialist Republics in Revolt, translated by Marting Sokolinsky & Henry A. La Farge (New York: Newsweek Books, 1979; originally published in French in 1978 as L’Empire éclaté).
Alexander Etkind, Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience. (Cambridge: Polity Press. 2011).
Alexander Etkind, Russia Against Modernity (Polity, 2023)
Fiona Hill & Clifford G. Gaddy, The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (Washington D.C.: Brookings, 2003).
Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Cornell, 2005)
Vladimir Kabuzan, Russkiye v mire: Dinamika chislennosti i rasseleniya (1719-1989). Formirovanie etnicheskikh i politicheskikh granits russkogo naroda (St. Petersburg: BLITS,1996)
Pal Kosto & Helge Blakkisrud, eds, The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity, & Authoritarianism, 2000-2015 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ Press, 2016).
Dominic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals (New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 2000).
Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. (Cornell, 2001)
Chris Miller, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy, 2016
Marshall T. Poe, The Russian Moment in World History (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003).
David Remnick, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New York: Random House, 1993).
Andrei Sinyavsky, Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History (New York: Arcade Publishing, 1990).
Graham Smith, The Post Soviet States: Mapping the Politics of Transition, 1999
Graham Smith, ed., The Nationalities Question in the Post-Soviet States, 2nd edition (London: Longman, 1996).
Ronald G. Suny, The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Stanford, 1993).
Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the breakup of the Soviet Union. (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2000).
Edward W. Walker, Dissolution: Sovereignty and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
Paul Werth, How Russia Got Big (London: Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Zbigniew Brzezinski, “A Geostrategy for Eurasia,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 76, No. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1997), 50–64.
Oksana Dynnikova, Annette Kyobe, and Slavi Slavov. “Regional Disparities and Fiscal Federalism in Russia.” IMF Working Paper WP/21/144. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, May 2021.
Борис Львин, Андрей Илларионов, “Россия должна признать независимость Чечни,” Московские новости, № 8, 1995 год. Libertarium.ru January 14, 1995.
N.P. Medvedev N.P., & D.E. Slizovsky “Empires and Empire, Multinational Federative Russia: a Scientific View through a Review of Publications” // Postsovetskie issledovaniya, 2025 Vol. 8, no. 3. 332–345.
Nikolai Nikitin, “Imperskost’ Rossii: blago ili prokliatie?” Voprosy natsionalizma, 2015, no. 4, 163-194.
Alexander I Solzhenitsyn, “Kak nam obustroit’ Rossiiu? Posil’nye soobrazheniia,” Special section of Russkoi Mysl’, no. 3846, September 21, 1990.
Roman Szporluk, “After Empire What?”, Daedalus, 123, no. 4 (Summer 1994).
Vera Tolz, “Forging the Nation: National Identity and Nation Building in Post-Communist Russia,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 50, No. 6, 1998, 993-1022.
Vadim Tsymburskiy, “Ostrov Rossia: Perspektivy Rossiiskoi Geopolitiki,” Polis, 5, (1993) 11-17.
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Luke Coffey, “Preparing for the Final Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Dissolution of the Russian Federation,” Hudson Institute December 2022
Георгий Матвеевич Дерлугьян, “Причины распада СССР: коммунистический режим, сверхдержавное бремя, национализм республик или случайность?,” https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/prichiny-raspada-sssr-kommunisticheskiy-rezhim-sverhderzhavnoe-bremya-natsionalizm-respublik-ili-sluchaynost/viewer
Evgeny Gontmakher, “Russia’s Uneven Economic Development,” https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/russia-economic-development/ Sep16, 2021.
Joy Neumeyer, “The Soviet Union never really solved Russian nationalism,” Aeon Essays 5 July 2022.
Alexandra Prokopenko, “Russia’s Economic Gamble: The Hidden Costs of War-Driven Growth,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, December 20, 2024
András Tóth-Czifra, Moscow vs. Regions: Who feeds whom? February 4, 2021. https://imrussia.org/en/analysis/3230-moscow-vsregions-who-%20feeds%20-whom
Andras Toth-Czifra, “State of Unreadiness,” https://ridl.io/state-of-unreadiness/ October 27, 2025. https://jamestown.org/russian-regions-face-high-budget-deficits-and-little-support-from-the-central-government/
Thomas de Waal, “The End of the Near Abroad,” https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/05/the-end-of-the-near-abroad? May 16, 2024
Igor Zevelev «Русский вопрос» после распада СССР,” Proetcontra, 50, 67-79 https://carnegie-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/files/ProetContra_50_67-79.pdf
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Новость \ В бюджете на 2024-2026 годы учтены средства на развитие регионов
https://www.if24.ru/vladislav-inozemtsev-rossiya-i-imperia/
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/03/russia-separatism-vladimir-putin-227498/
Новость \ В бюджете на 2024-2026 годы учтены средства на развитие регионов
https://globalaffairs.ru/articles/budushhee-rossii-nacziya-ili-czivilizacziya-2/
Министерство финансов Российской Федерации. “Распределение дотаций на выравнивание бюджетной обеспеченности субъектов Российской Федерации на 2025 год и плановый период 2026 и 2027 годов.” Москва, 2024
“Turning East: How Russia’s ambitions in Asia are confronted by reality”, https://nestcentre.org/turning-east/ 12 September 2025