Stephen Crowley - Putins Labor Dilemma: Russian Politics between Stability and Stagnation

This project benefited from a number of individuals and sources of support. I am grateful for a yearlong fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. Many thanks to Robert Litwak, Blair Ruble, the Wilson Center staff, and, at the Wilson Centers Kennan Institute, to Will Pomeranz, Matt Rojansky, Izabella Tabarovsky, and to my co-fellows, especially Volodymyr Kulikov, Sergey Parkhomenko, and Igor Zevelev.

I also benefited from a semester spent as a visiting research scholar at George Washington Universitys Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and from the workshop on postcommunist politics there organized by Henry Hale. In addition to Henry, I am grateful for comments in particular from Stas Gorelik, Bob Orttung, Peter Rollbert, David Szakonyi, and Yuval Weber.

I profited as well from a monthlong stay as visiting scholar at the Aleksanteri Institute / Finnish Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Helsinki. There I am especially thankful for the comments and assistance from Alla Bolotova, Marina Khmelnitskaya, Markku Kivinen, and Eeva Korteniemi.

Oberlin College granted me a yearlong Thomas J. Klutznick Research Fellowship. There I am very grateful to a number of colleagues for advice and support, including Matt Berkman, Marc Blecher, Sarah El-Kazaz, Chris Howell, Pam Snyder, Maia Solovieva, and Veljko Vujacic.

Able research assistance was given to me by Christina Sorensen and Dimitar Nikolov at the Wilson Center, and at Oberlin by Roman Broszkowski, Paul Kleiman, Patrick Powers, and Meredith Walkerimpressive students all.

At Cornell University Press, Im grateful for the strong support of this project from Fran Benson, and the incisive input and shepherding from Ellen Labbate, Jennifer Savran Kelly, Glenn Novak, and Brock Schnoke.

I greatly benefited from a number of individuals who gave indispensable suggestions along the way. While I will no doubt miss some, I would like to acknowledge the comments of Petr Bizyukov, Carine Clement, Irina Denisova, Allison Evans, Cliff Gaddy, Vladimir Gimpelson, Aleksandr Golts, Vladislav Inozemtsev, Irina Ivakhnyuk, Tatiana Mikhailova, Jeremy Morris, Tom Remington, Andrey Semenev, Lewis Siegelbaum, Rudy Sil, and Regina Smyth, and Ryan James Tutak. I would like to give special thanks to Irina Olimpieva, who greatly helped my understanding of contemporary labor politics in Russia. Chapter 5 draws quite a bit from our joint article, Labor Protests and Their Consequences in Putins Russia, in Problems of Post-Communism.

Above all, thanks to Cynthia and Anna. They know why.

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