InfoTrac Activities Vladimir Putin Since taking over from Boris Yeltsin in 2000, Vladimir Putin has tried to take Russia in new directions. He has sought to consolidate more political power in the central government with considerable success, but often at the expense of democracy and freedom of expression. He has also kept good, though occasionally uneven, relations with the West. What have been some of the major challenges faced by Putin and how has he dealt with them? What are the current issues he faces? How effective has he been as Russia’s leader? Here are some articles to get you started. Find them through Keyword searches or by entering "Vladimir Putin" in the Subject Guide or in Keywords. Slaying his own dragons; Russian reform. (The Kremlin's master does battle with his underlings) The Economist (US) May 1, 2004 v371 i8373 p51US (704 words) Putin redux; Russia's presidential election. (Vladimir Putin re-elected) The Economist (US) March 20, 2004 v370 i8367 p54US (545 words) No More Excuses; Putin now has the power. It's time to deliver on his promises. (Russian president Vladimir Putin) Christian Caryl, Frank Brown. Newsweek International March 15, 2004 p26 (1646 words) Four More Years: Vladimir Putin looks set for a big win in next week's presidential election. Will he tighten his grip on Russia even more during his second term? (Europe) Paul Quinn-Judge. Time International (Europe Edition) March 15, 2004 v163 i11 p40 (2599 words) PUTIN REGIME THREATENS RUSSIA'S RICHEST. (oligarch) Susan Watters. WWD March 10, 2004 p23 (955 words) A Normal Country. Andrei Shleifer, Daniel Treisman. Foreign Affairs March-April 2004 v83 i2 p20 (6688 words) Terror on the Subway: President Putin blames Chechen rebels for the latest deadly attack. But is he making things worse? (World) Time Feb 16, 2004 v163 i7 p45 (717 words) Pulling for Putin. (Vladimir Putin) Christian Caryl, Frank Brown, Helen Womack. Newsweek International Jan 26, 2004 p24 (1084 words) Putin Versus Big Oil. (Vladimir Putin) Frank Brown. Newsweek International Jan 19, 2004 p45 (815 words) Putin's might is White: the Russian President is a nationalist, not a communist, says Paul Robinson, and has much in common with the men who fought the Bolsheviks in the civil war. Paul Robinson. Spectator Jan 10, 2004 v294 i9153 p18(2) (1638 words) Putin's way - The Russian elections. After the Russian elections; Vladimir Putin The Economist (US) Dec 13, 2003 v369 i8354 p24US (2852 words) The Game Goes On: Russia has oil--plenty of it--and whatever happens to Khodorkovsky, it will keep on flowing. Features)(Mikhail Khodorkovsky Janet Guyon. Fortune Nov 24, 2003 v148 i11 p154 (1626 words) EU/RUSSIA: RELATIONS MOVE UP ANOTHER NOTCH. (European Union) European Report Nov 11, 2003 p502 (1144 words) Vlad the impaler - Vlad the impaler; Russia. (After the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky) The Economist (US) Nov 1, 2003 v369 i8348 p13US (1212 words) Moscow Rising. Michael Leverson Meyer. Newsweek International Oct 13, 2003 p32 (2458 words) No Way Out? Moscow aims to pull back from Chechnya, but as Paul Quinn-Judge reports from Grozny, Chechens--and the Russian military--may have other ideas. (World) Paul Quinn-Judge. Time Oct 13, 2003 v162 i15 p40 (1788 words) The sick man of asia: Russia's endangered Far East. Rajan Menon. The National Interest Fall 2003 i73 p93(13) (6939 words) Russia: the politics of pragmatism: John Beaglehole discusses Russia's response to the crisis over Iraq. John Beaglehole. New Zealand International Review Sept-Oct 2003 v28 i5 p2(5) (3465 words) From Yeltsin to Putin. (Russia's transition of presidents) Dmitry Shlapentokh.World and I Oct 2001 v16 i10 p294 For more articles on Russia, enter: "Russia" in the Subject Guide, and then go to subdivision "politics and government." "Russia" in the Subject Guide, and then go to subdivision "political aspects." "Russia" in the Subject Guide, and then go to subdivision "elections." "Russia" in the Subject Guide, and then go to relevant subdivisions. "Soviet Union" in the Subject Guide, and then go to relevant subdivisions. Slaying hisown dragons; Russian reform. (The Kremlin's master does battle with his underlings) The Economist (US) May 1, 2004 v371 i8373 p51US (704 words) Putin redux; Russia's presidential election. (Vladimir Putin re-elected) The Economist (US) March 20, 2004 v370 i8367 p54US (545 words) No More Excuses; Putin now has the power. It's time to deliver on his promises. (Russian president Vladimir Putin) Christian Caryl, Frank Brown. Newsweek International March 15, 2004 p26 (1646 words) Four More Years: Vladimir Putin looks set for a big win in next week's presidential election. Will he tighten his grip on Russia even more during his second term? (Europe) Paul Quinn-Judge. Time International (Europe Edition) March 15, 2004 v163 i11 p40 (2599 words) Tycoon Takeover; A new report measures the oligarchs' influence. Newsweek International April 19, 2004 p42 (947 words) Gripe And Grin. (Colin Powell visits Russia and Vladimir Putin) Thomas Omestad, Ilana Ozernoy. U.S. News & World Report Feb 9, 2004 v136 i5 p28 (764 words) The revolution within. (Khrushchev: The Man and His Era;Conversations With Gorbachev: On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism;Gorbachev and Yeltsin as Leaders)(Book Review)_(book review) Robert D. English. The Nation May 26, 2003 v276 i20 p29 (3487 words) Mikhail Gorbachev. The Progressive Interview Amitabh Pal. The Progressive Dec 2003 v67 i12 p28(4) (1835 words) The walk that charged the world. Christopher Shulgan. National Post April 12, 2003 v5 i142 pSS38(5) (4296 words) Constitutional law and politics in Russia: surviving the first decade. Robert Sharlet. Demokratizatsiya Wntr 2003 v11 i1 p122(7) The return of Mikhail Gorbachev: the former Soviet leader is tanned, rested, and...green. (Russia). (Interview) Axel Krause. Europe June 2002 p14(4) March 11, 1985: My First Day on the Job. (Special Section TIME's 80th Anniversary/80 Days That Changed The World) Mikhail Gorbachev. Time March 31, 2003 v161 i13 pA62+ Conversations with Eduard Shevardnadze. Georgie Anne Geyer. The Washington Quarterly, Spring 2000 v23 i2 p55 The Siberian curse: does Russia's geography doom its chances for market reform? Fiona Hill, Clifford Gaddy. Brookings Review Fall 2003 v21 i4 p23(5) (3082 words) "The Doctors' Plot". (History) Samson Madievski. Midstream Sept-Oct 2003 v49 i6 p9(5) (4325 words) Britain and Russia 450 years of contact: Paul Dukes looks at the ups and downs of the relationship between the land of the lions and that of the double-headed eagle. Paul Dukes. History Today July 2003 v53 i7 p9(8) (3536 words) Liberated from the dead hand ... Lev Anninskiy describes his encounters with censored and uncensored history in Soviet Russia. (Point Of Departure). Lev Anninskiy. History Today July 2003 v53 i7 p62(2) (1442 words) The riddle of post-war Russian economic growth: statistics lied and were misconstrued. Steven Rosefielde. Europe-Asia Studies May 2003 v55 i3 p469(13) Still mourning Stalin? Russia. (Fifty years after Stalin's death, his legacy lives on) The Economist (US) March 1, 2003 v366 i8313 pNA My family's Russia: few countries have seen more changes in the last century than Russia. Anastasia Stepanova traces its history through the lives of three generations. (Lead Story). For A Change Feb-March 2003 v16 i1 p4(4) Catherine the great: a personal view. (Critical Essay) Isabel de Madariaga. History Today Nov 2001 v51 i11 p45(7) `The party that ate itself': Julian Reed-Purvis investigates Stalin's role in the origins of the great purges. (Talking Points). Julian Reed-Purvis. History Review Sept 2001 p13(6) The Empire That Was Russia. (Brief Article) Felicity Jones. History Today July 2001 v51 i7 p60 CARNAL CONFESSIONS OF A RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN AMID RUSSIA'S GOLDEN AGE. JOHN T. ALEXANDER. The Historian Spring 2001 v63 i3 p539 The Great Terror in Leningrad: a Quantitative Analysis. MELANIE ILIC. Europe-Asia Studies Dec 2000 v52 i8 p1515 'The people need a tsar': the emergence of national Bolshevism as Stalinist ideology, 1931-1941. D.L. Brandenberger, A.M. Dubrovsky. Europe-Asia Studies July 1998 v50 i5 p873(2) The prince & the empress. (relationship of Russian empress Catherine the Great with military leader Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin) Nikolai Pavlenko. Russian Life May 1998 v41 n5 p32(7) The cost of conscience. (Calendar ... playwright Alexander Galich died in exile)(Biography) Russian Life Sept-Oct 2003 v46 i5 p16(2) (901 words) The fellow travelers revisited: the "cultured west" through Soviet eyes. Michael David-Fox. The Journal of Modern History June 2003 v75 i2 p300(36) (16768 words) Nuclear smuggling: patterns and responses. Rensselaer Lee. Parameters Spring 2003 v33 i1 p95(17) (8056 words) The mystery of Stalin: Paul Wingrove examines the starkly different interpretations that seek to explain the career of Joseph Stalin, who died fifty years ago this month. (Cross Current). (Biography) Paul Wingrove. History Today March 2003 v53 i3 p18(3) (2614 words) Lost & found in Siberia. Otis E. Hays Jr.. Russian Life March-April 2003 v46 i2 p34(7) (4287 words) On the combat operations experience of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Col O.N. Kalinovskiy, Col. V.A. Kulikov. Military Thought Jan-Feb 2003 v12 i1 p213(4) (1608 words) Soviet repression statistics: some comments. Michael Ellman. Europe-Asia Studies Nov 2002 v54 i7 p1151(23) (13995 words) My time with Soviet economics. (Memoir & Critique). Paul Craig Roberts. Independent Review Fall 2002 v7 i2 p259(6) (2180 words) Yeltsin's Legacy. Michael McFaul. The Wilson Quarterly Spring 2000 v24 i2 p42