* Acknowledgments * List of Tables and Figures Introduction * 1. Informal Networks, Collective Action, and Sources of (In)stability in Russia: A Brief Overview * Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer Part I: Politics * 2. When More Is Less: Superexecutive Power and Political Underdevelopment in Russia * M.Steven Fish * 3. Personalism Versus Proceduralism: Boris Yeltsin and the Institutional Fragility of the Russian System * George W. Breslauer * 4. Russia's Second Constitutional Court: Politics, Law, and Stability * Robert Sharlet * 5. Institutional Decline in the Russian Military: Exit, Voice, and Corruption * Kimberly Marten Zisk Part II: Economy * 6. Stability and Disorder: An Evolutionary Analysis of Russia's Virtual Economy * Clifford G. Gaddy and Barry W. Ickes * 7. Russia in the Information Age * Emma Kiselyova and Manuel Castells * 8. Organized Crime and Social Instability in Russia: The Alternative State, Deviant Bureaucracy, and Social Black Holes * Victor M. Sergeyev Part III: Society * 9. Russia's New Entrepreneurs * Victoria E. Bonnell * 10. The Russian Working Class in Times of Transition * Victor Zaslavsky * 11. Domestic Involution: How Women Organize Survival in a North Russian City * Michael Burawoy, Pavel Krotov, and Tatyana Lytkina Part IV: The Nation * 12. The Redefinition of the Russian Nation, International Security, and Stability * Igor Zevelev * 13. Serving Mother Russia: The Communist Left and Nationalist Right in the Struggle for Power, 1991-1998 * Veljko Vujacic * 14. Dagestan and the Stability of Instability in the North Caucasus * Edward W. Walker * Index