Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Heritage -- 1: Capitalism, Civil Society and Development in Russia (to 1917 and from 1989) -- 1 Return to the Transition -- 2 Poverty, Survival Strategies and the Role of Civil Society -- 3 Civil Society in Russia: Towards a Historical Perspective -- 4 Capitalism to 1917 and from 1989 -- 2: State and Development in the Soviet Period -- 1 Development as a Contested Term -- 2 The Strategy of Soviet State-led Development -- 3 Soviet Development Results -- 4 The Golden Age of 'Real Socialism' -- 5 Post-1991: Picking Up the Pieces -- Postscript: Left Political Parties Resisting Shock Therapy in Russia -- 3: Moving East and South: Empire and After -- 1 Russia's Expansion into Siberia: The Tsarist Period -- 2 Siberia in the Soviet Period and Transition -- 3 The Colonization of Central Asia -- 4 The Bolsheviks and Hopes for World Revolution Based on the Example of Caucasus and Central Asia -- 5 The Role of Civil Society and the Intelligentsia in Interpreting History -- Conclusion -- Part 2: Development and Struggle -- 4: Political Mobilization from War Communism to Coloured Revolution -- 1 Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Development Approaches -- 2 Political Mobilization in Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s -- 3 Social Mobilization Channelled by the State -- 4 Political and Civil Society in the Time of Perestroika and Coloured Revolution -- 5: Local Government Decentralization: Civil Society Development in the Urals and Siberia -- 1 The Handover of Social Services to Local Authorities During Russia's Transition -- 2 The Situation of Local Government in the 1990s and 2000s -- 3 Centre and Periphery within the Russian Federation.

4 Assessing the Impact of Social Development Interventions in the 1990s and 2000s -- Conclusion -- 6: Development Challenges in an Insecure Neighbourhood: Tajikistan -- 1 Tajikistan and Russia in the 1990s -- 2 Tradition versus Modernization in Tajikistan after the Civil War -- 3 Economic Crisis and Migration as a Safety Valve -- 4 Prospects for Development in Tajikistan Today -- 7: Beyond Alienation: Social Movements and Protest in Russia in the 2000s -- 1 Democracy Protests on the Move -- 2 Critiques of the Putin-Medvedev Modernization Agenda -- 3 Overcoming Alienation: From Isolated Individuals to Collective Action -- 4 Conclusion: Struggles in the 'Three Peripheries' -- Part 3: The International Context -- 8: NGOs Challenging Political and Economic Power -- 1 The Local Dimension in Russia's Environmental Movement -- 2 Challenges in Developing a National Anti-Globalist Movement in Russia -- 3 NGOs Campaigning for International Accountability in Central Asia -- 4 Conclusion: What About the Major Russian Companies? -- 9: Russia as a BRIC -- 1 Introduction: Russia - A Middle-Income Country -- 2 Russia's Development Model Today -- 3 Russia, the BRICs and G20 -- 4 Development in the Three Peripheries: Conclusions and Prospects -- Postscript -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.