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Russia
Interpretative surveys include Lilia Shevtsova, Yeltsin's
Russia: Myth and Reality (2000); Stephen White, Alex Pravda,
and Zvi Gitelman (eds.), Developments in Russian Politics 5,
5th ed. (2001); and Archie Brown (ed.), Contemporary Russian
Politics: A Reader (2001). Studies of the economic transition
include Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman, Without a Map:
Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia (2000); Alena
V. Ledeneva, Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking, and
Informal Exchange (1998); Jefferey F. Hough, The Logic of
Economic Reform in Russia (2001); Thane Gustafson,
Capitalism Russian-Style (1999); Peter Reddaway and Dmitri
Glinski, The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms: Market Bolshevism
Against Democracy (2001); and Tim McDaniel, The Agony of the
Russian Idea (1996). Geoffrey Hosking and Robert Service
(eds.), Russian Nationalism, Past and Present (1997),
examines the reemergence of Russian identity since the collapse of
the U.S.S.R. The conflict in Chechnya is explored in John B.
Dunlop, Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist
Conflict (1998); and Anatol Lieven, Chechnya: Tombstone of
Russian Power (1998). A solid account of Russian foreign policy
in the Yeltsin years is Ted Hopf (ed.), Understandings of
Russian Foreign Policy (1999). Leon Aron, Yeltsin: A
Revolutionary Life (2000), is an excellent biography. The
institutional and political context in which Russian democracy
emerged in the 1990s is the subject of Graeme Gill and Roger D.
Markwick, Russia's Stillborn Democracy : From Gorbachev to
Yeltsin (2000); Gordon B. Smith (ed.), State-Building in
Russia: The Yeltsin Legacy and the Challenge of the Future
(1999); and Valerie Sperling (ed.), Building the Russian State:
Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic Governance
(2000).
RUSSIA: Russia's Democratic Election When
campaigning opened at the beginning of 1996, Pres. Boris Yeltsin's
popularity was close to zero. He himself did not at first want to
run, since he had spent several months in 1995 convalescing after
two heart attacks. Panic struck the Yeltsin team when opinion polls
indicated that Yeltsin could not win; members of his staff urged
him to find a pretext to cancel the ...
Post-Soviet Russiafrom the Russia
article Interpretative surveys include Lilia Shevtsova,
Yeltsin's Russia: Myth and Reality (2000); Stephen White, Alex
Pravda, and Zvi Gitelman (eds.), Developments in Russian Politics
5, 5th ed. (2001); and Archie Brown (ed.), Contemporary Russian
Politics: A Reader (2001). Studies of the economic transition
include Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman, Without a Map:
Political ...
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Post-Soviet Era In parliamentary elections held in
December 1995, the Communist party won the largest number of seats
in the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. The results
were seen as a stinging rebuke of Yeltsin and the government of
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who were blamed for a sluggish
economy and a disastrous war in the separatist republic of
Chechnya. In a ...
Soviet Communismfrom the communism
article Marx died in 1883 and Engels in 1895. Thereafter,
Marx's large international following split into two camps, a
revisionist group that favored a gradual and peaceful
transition to communism and a more orthodox group that adhered to
Marx's original vision of violent revolution. The Soviet
Experiencefrom the concentration camp article During the early
years of the Soviet regime under Lenin, the Cheka (secret police)
was given the authority to send persons to concentration camps
without trial. By 1922 there were 23 camps in various locations.
During Joseph Stalin's rule, from 1924 to 1953, the number of camps
and prisoners greatly increased. Many so-called corrective labor
camps were set up in northern ...
Government In November 1917 the Bolsheviks first
created the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Shortly
afterward a declaration of peoples' rights permitted the formation
of autonomous units within the federation. In 1922, with the
formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Russian
Federation became a separate republic and, like the other union
republics ...
Shevardnadze, Eduard A. (born 1928), Georgian
government official, born in Mamati, Georgian S.S.R.; joined
Communist party 1948; held various party posts in Georgia
1961 85; became member of Central Committee 1976; became full
member of Soviet Politburo 1985; Soviet foreign minister
1985 90 and Nov. Dec. 1991; resigned from the Communist
party in protest of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies 1991; ...
Britannica online encyclopedia article on conservation,
Assessments of biodiversity: Stuart L. Pimm, The World According to
Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth (2001; also published as A
Scientist Audits the Earth, 2004), gives an overview of the state
of human activity on Earth's terrestrial, freshwater, and marine
regions and discusses the effects of this activity on biodiversity.
Stuart L. Pimm et al., The Future of Biodiversity, Science,
269(5222):347350 (July 21, 1995), estimates past, present, and
future rates of extinction. Extensive tables and figures on the
distribution and status of biodiversity are provided in Brian
Groombridge and Martin D. Jenkins, World Atlas of Biodiversity:
Earth's Living Resources in the 21st Century (2002). N.J. Collar,
M.J. Crosby, and A.J. Stattersfield, Birds to Watch 2: The World
List of Threatened Birds (1994), describes the fate of the roughly
1, 100 species of birds that are globally threatened; because birds
are particularly well-known, the book represents the most complete
discussion of species threatened with extinction and the underlying
causes of the threat. Sandra Postel, Last Oasis: Facing Water
Scarcity (1992); and Norman Myers, The Primary Source: Tropical
Forests and Our Future, 2nd ed. (1992), analyze the fate of
freshwater ecosystems and of tropical forests, respectively. The
state of fish stocks within the United States and its territories
is evaluated in National Marine Fisheries Service, Report to
Congress: Status of Fisheries of the United States (annual). Callum
M. Roberts et al., Marine Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation
Priorities for Tropical Reefs, Science, 295(5558):128084 (Feb. 15,
2002), maps out the biodiversity of coral reefs and the factors
involved in their harm.conservation :: Specific causes of species loss -- Britannica
Online EncyclopediaBritannica online encyclopedia article on conservation,
Specific causes of species loss: Robert L. Peters and Thomas E.
Lovejoy (eds.), Global Warming and Biological Diversity (1992),
explores the likely consequences of global warming on biodiversity.
The damage to marine ecosystems by overfishing receives major
treatment in Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that
Changed the World (1997); and Carl Safina, Song for the Blue Ocean:
Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Sea (1998).
Daniel Simberloff, Don C. Schmitz, and Tom C. Brown (eds.),
Strangers in Paradise: Impact and Management of Nonindigenous
Species in Florida (1997); and Stuart L. Pimm, Species that Need No
Introduction, Yearbook of Science and the Future, pp. 200219
(1994), are reviews of introduced species and their role in
reducing biodiversity.conservation :: Vulnerabilities of particular species --
Britannica Online EncyclopediaBritannica online encyclopedia article on conservation,
Vulnerabilities of particular species: Rosie Woodroffe and Joshua
R. Ginsberg, Edge Effects and the Extinction of Populations Inside
Protected Areas, Science, 280(5372):212628 (June 26, 1998), shows
that the foraging behaviour of some large predators, such as
African wild dogs, puts them at particular risk of local
extinction. Ronald L. Westemeier et al., Tracking the Long-Term
Decline and Recovery of an Isolated Population, Science,
282(5394):169598 (Nov. 27, 1998), demonstrates that the decline of
genetically inbred small populations can be reversed by introducing
individuals from genetically diverse larger populations.conservation, Vulnerabilities of particular species,
encyclopedia, enciclopedia, brittanica, britanica, britainicaconservation :: Priority setting and habitat restoration --
Britannica Online EncyclopediaBritannica online encyclopedia article on conservation,
Priority setting and habitat restoration: Stuart L. Pimm and John
H. Lawton, Planning for Biodiversity, Science, 279(5359):206869
(March 27, 1998), reviews technical approaches to selecting the
economically and ecologically most-effective areas to be protected
for their biodiversity. William K. Stevens, Miracle Under the Oaks:
The Revival of Nature in America (1995), describes the efforts to
restore prairies in the American Midwest.conservation :: Economic and legal issues in the conservation
of biodiversity -- Britannica Online EncyclopediaBritannica online encyclopedia article on conservation,
Economic and legal issues in the conservation of biodiversity:
Robert Costanza et al., The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services
and Natural Capital, Nature, 387(6630):253260 (May 15, 1997),
calculates the annual value of the ecosystem services provided by
the environment. Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent, Perverse
Subsidies: How Tax Dollars Can Undercut the Environment and the
Economy (2001); Geoffrey Heal, Nature and the Marketplace:
Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services (2000); and Gretchen C.
Daily and Katherine Ellison, The New Economy of Nature: The Quest
to Make Conservation Profitable (2002), discuss the economic
factors that harm biodiversity and the development of economic
tools to save it. National Research Council (U.S.), Committee on
Scientific Issues in the Endangered Species Act, Science and the
Endangered Species Act (1995), examines the factors involved in
U.S. law in protecting endangered species.conservation :: How many species are there -- Britannica Online
EncyclopediaBritannica online encyclopedia article on conservation, How
many species are there : Any absolute estimate of extinction rate,
such as extinctions per year, requires knowledge of how many
species there are. Unfortunately, this number is not known with any
great degree of certainty, and the problems of estimating it are
formidable. Taxonomists have describedthat is, have given names
toabout 1.5 million species. Only about 100, 000 of them,
comprising terrestrial vertebrates, some flowering plants, and
attractive and collectible invertebrates such as butterflies and
snails, are popular enough for taxonomists to know well. Birds are
exceptionally well-knownthere are roughly 10, 000 bird species,
with only one or two new species being added each year.Vulnerabilities of particular species Priority setting and
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