Slavic Research Center News no8 (7)

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	No.8 , December 2000	back to INDEX>>

From the Director	SRC Summer Symposium in 2000	International Workshop on Agricultural Transformation in the Post-Communist Countries		Foreign Visiting Fellowship Program	Our Current Staff
Research Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture		Guest Lectures from Abroad	Visitors from Abroad	Publications(1999-2000)	The Library

Essays by Foreign Fellows

Ekaterina Nikova

Michael C. Hickey

Stanislav Lakoba

Guest Lectures from Abroad

Tomas Kostelecky (Institute of Sociology, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) "Could Voters in East Central Europe Vote Rationally in the 1990s?," December 13, 1999.

Robert L. Belknap (Columbia University, USA) "Glasnost' During the Reign of Alexander II," January 27, 2000.

V.M. Markov (Vladivostok Institute of International Relations, Far Eastern State University, Russia) "The Life and Work of St. Nikolai in Japan," January 27, 2000.

Z.F. Morgun (Oriental Institute, Far Eastern State University, Russia) "Japanology in the Far Eastern State University in during the 1920-1930s," January 27, 2000.

Nail Mukhariamov (Kazan Institute of Thermoenergy, Russia) "The Political Process in Tatarstan: Islamic Factors," January 27, 2000.

Rafis Abazov (La Trobe University, Australia) "Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Central Asia: The Case of the Kyrgyz Republic," January 28, 2000.

Liudmila I. Galliamova (Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok) "The Social-Economic Development of the Russian Far East, Second Half of the 19th Century - 1917," January 31, 2000.

Tomas Doucha (Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Czech Rep.) "The Reform of Czech Agriculture: Historical Background, Socio-Economic and Policy Implications," February 14, 2000.

Michael Ellman (Amsterdam University, The Netherlands) "The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System, 1985-91," February 23, 2000.

Zdenka Mansfeldovб (Institute of Sociology, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) "Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations: Actors and Strategies in the Czech Republic," March 6, 2000

Pavel Machonin (Institute of Sociology, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) "Theory of Modernization and the Czech Experience," March 6, 2000.

H. Bacev (Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) "Bulgarian Experience in the Transformation of Farm Structure," April 14, 2000.

Anatolii M. Khazanov (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) "Is Democracy Retreating in Post-Communist Countries?: The Phenomenon of Post-Totalitarian Society," May 15, 2000.

Andrzej Flis (Jagiellonian University, Poland) "The Distinctiveness of Eastern Europe," May 16, 2000.

Volkmar Kreissig (Institute for Economic and Social Research in Chemnit, Germany) "Democratization, Economic and Social Change in Russia: One Step Forward or Backward," June 5, 2000.

Shlomo Weber (Southern Methodist University, USA) "Fiscal Federalism in Russia: The Art of Making Everybody Happy; How to Prevent a Secession," September 19, 2000.

Philip Hanson (Birmingham University, UK) "Barriers to Long-Run Growth in Russia," October 25, 2000.

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