The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands

by Alexander Statiev

2010 · Cambridge University Press

This book investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact.

Federalism in China and Russia

by Alexander Libman, Michael Rochlitz

2019 · Edward Elgar Publishing

The book offers a comparative analysis of center-region relations in Russia and in China. The authors focus in particular on fiscal ties and incentives, bureaucratic and local government practices, flows of information, and the determinants of divergence between both countries. The book is based on a synthesis of a large body of empirical and theoretical evidence, and will appeal to scholars in public economics, political economy and comparative politics, as well as to students and policy analysts.