JRL - RAS Issue No. 43 • September 2008 - The Caucasus

Editor: Stephen D. Shenfield
RAS archive: http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/jrl-ras.cfm
The Research and Analytical Supplement (RAS) to Johnson’s Russia List is produced and edited by Stephen D. Shenfield. He is the author of all parts of the content that are not attributed to any other author.

THE CAUCASUS

1. Israel and the war in Georgia

2. Significance of the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia

3. New book on the Northwest Caucasus

POLITICS

4. The debate about “Surkovism”

5. Vladimir Sirotin. A left program for today’s Russia

HISTORY

6. Empire of the periphery

7. Statisticians under Stalin

8. Jewish opposition to the Jewish oligarchs

REMINISCENCE

9. Learning to read between the lines

• RAS Issue No. 43 • September 2008 • JRL 2008-164, by Stephen D. Shenfield