Our understanding of the dynamics of Communist systems was substantially improved by taking political culture into account. But how much does the concept of political culture add to our empirical understanding of post-Communist Russia? The book's contributors engage with theoretical debates between political culture and competing 'rational choice' and institutionalist approaches to post-Soviet politics, and provide illustrative empirical studies of civic participation, views of national identity, the Russian criminal justice system and political violence.

ARCHIE BROWN Oxford University, UK JEFFREY HAHN Villanova University, USA CHARLES KING Georgetown University, USA ALEXANDER LUKIN Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Russia PAVEL LUKIN Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia MARY MCAULEY Supernumerary Fellow, St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK RICHARD SAKWA University of Kent at Canterbury, UK STEPHEN WELCH Durham University, UK

Preface Political Culture and Post-Communism; S.Whitefield Myths about Russian Political Culture and the Study of Russian History; A.Lukin and P.Lukin Partial Adaptation and Political Culture; R.Sakwa Culture, Context, Violence: Eurasia in Comparative Perspective; C.King Bringing Culture Back into Political Analysis: The Reform of the Russian Judiciary; M.McAuley Political Culture, Post-Communism and Disciplinary Normalisation: Towards Theoretical Reconstruction; S.Welch Culture, Experience, and State Identity: A Survey-based Analysis of Russians, 1995-2003; S.Whitefield Yaroslavl' Revisited: Assessing Continuity and Change in Russian Political Culture Since 1990; J.Hahn Conclusions; A.Brown Short Biographies of Contributors List of References