Energy dependency, politics and corruption in the former Soviet Union : Russia's power, oligarchs' profits and Ukraine's missing energy policy, 1995-2006 / Margarita M. Balmaceda.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index.

Ukraine's foreign and security policy, 1991-2000 / Roman Wolczuk -- Political parties in the Russian regions / Derek S. Hutcheson -- Local communities and post-communist transformation / edited by Simon Smith -- Repression and resistance in communist Europe / J.C. Sharman -- Political elites and the new Russia / Anton Steen -- Dostoevsky and the idea of Russianness / Sarah Hudspith -- Performing Russia : folk revival and Russian identity / Laura J. Olson -- Russian Transformations / edited by Leo McCann -- Soviet music and society under Lenin and Stalin : the baton and sickle / Edited by Neil Edmunds -- State building in Ukraine : the Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003 / Sarah Whitmore -- Defending human rights in Russia : Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and human rights commissioner, 1969-2003 / Emma Gilligan -- Small-town Russia : postcommunist livelihoods and identities : a portrait of the intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000 / Anne White -- Russian society and the orthodox church : religion in Russia after communism / Zoe Knox -- Russian literary culture in the camera age : the word as image / Stephen Hutchings -- Between Stalin and Hitler : class war and race war on the Dvina, 1940-46 / Geoffrey Swain -- Literature in post-communist Russia and Eastern Europe : The Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction of the changes 1988-98 / Rajendra A. Chitnis -- Soviet dissent and Russia's transition to democracy -- dissident legacies / Robert Horvath -- Russian and Soviet film adaptations of literature, 1900-2001 : screening the word / edited by Stephen Hutchings and Anat Vernitski -- Russia as a great power : dimensions of security under Putin / edited by Jakob Hedenskog, Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil Nygren, Ingmar Oldberg and Christer Pursiainen -- Katyn and the Soviet massacre of 1940 : truth, justice and memory / George Sanford -- Conscience, dissent and reform in Soviet Russia / Philip Boobbyer -- The limits of Russian democratisation : emergency powers and states of emergency / Alexander N. Domrin -- The dilemmas of destalinisation : a social and cultural history of reform in the Khrushchev era / edited by Polly Jones -- News media and power in Russia / Olessia Koltsova -- Post-Soviet civil society : democratization in Russia and the Baltic States / Anders Uhlin -- The collapse of Communist power in Poland / Jacqueline Hayden -- Television, democracy and elections in Russia / Sarah Oates -- Russian constitutionalism : historical and contemporary development / Andrey N. Medushevsky -- Late Stalinist Russia : society between reconstruction and reinvention / edited by Juliane Frst -- The transformation of urban space in post-soviet Russia / Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade and Evgenij Bondarchuk -- Western intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40 : from Red Square to the left bank / Ludmila Stern -- The Germans of the Soviet Union / Irina Mukhina -- Re-constructing the post-soviet industrial region : the Donbas in transition / edited by Adam Swain -- Chechnya : Russia's "war on terror" / John Russell -- The new right in the new Europe : Czech transformation and right-wing politics, 1989-2006 / Seán Hanley -- Democracy and myth in Russia and Eastern Europe / edited by Alexander Wll and Harald Wydra -- Energy dependency, politics and corruption in the former Soviet Union : Russia's power, oligarchs' profits and Ukraine's missing energy policy, 1995-2006 / Margarita M. Balmaceda.

"Energy has become a major element to Russia's attempts, under Putin, to restore its influence over former Soviet territories and reaffirm itself as the dominant regional power. This book investigates how Russia has manipulated its neighbors' dependency on Russian energy supplies to achieve its own foreign policy goals, focusing in particular on relations with Ukraine. Based on a multitude of primary Ukrainian and Russian sources until now not brought to the attention of Western readers, it examines important events such as Russia's January 2006 suspension of gas supplies to Ukraine, and the implications for Ukraine's "Orange Revolution," other post-Soviet states and Western Europe. The case of Ukraine provides a taste of what might be in the horizon for other European states given Russia's use of energy as a foreign policy weapon, investigating the local groups that often receive significant profits from allowing Russia to control energy markets and energy transit possibilities. With European countries becoming more dependent upon Russian energy, this book will be of interest not only to Russian studies and Eastern European studies experts, but to scholars of international relations and European politics."--Jacket.