Brent Hierman is an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies and Political Science at Virginia Military Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His fieldwork for his dissertation was conducted in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and was funded by a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship. Prior to earning his Ph.D., he served in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan. Brent has published some of his research on Eurasian politics in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Problems of Post-Communism and Nationalities Papers. The courses that he regularly teaches at VMI include Post-Soviet Politics and Central Asian Politics. He last visited the region in 2017.

• IntroductionThe Russian FederationThe Land and the PeopleHistoryThe Communist EraStalin’s Revolution of the 1930sThe Post-Stalin EraThe Brezhnev EraGovernment TransitionThe Gorbachev EraAn Independent Russia is RebornThe Putin PresidencyRussian Foreign Policy since IndependenceGovernment of the Russian FederationConstitution of the Russian FederationCultureThe Changing EconomyThe Commonwealth of Independent StatesCollapse of the Soviet UnionCommonwealth of Independent StatesEconomy under the CISSome Regional Problems of the CISWestern RepublicsBelarusUkraineMoldovaTranscaucasian RepublicsArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgiaCentral Asian RepublicsKazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanWeb Sites and Bibliography

Brent Hierman is an assistant professor in the Department of International Studies and Political Science at Virginia Military Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His fieldwork for his dissertation was conducted in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and was funded by a Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship. Prior to earning his Ph.D., he served in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan. Brent has published some of his research on Eurasian politics in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Peasant Studies, Problems of Post-Communism and Nationalities Papers. The courses that he regularly teaches at VMI include Post-Soviet Politics and Central Asian Politics. He last visited the region in 2017.

• IntroductionThe Russian FederationThe Land and the PeopleHistoryThe Communist EraStalin’s Revolution of the 1930sThe Post-Stalin EraThe Brezhnev EraGovernment TransitionThe Gorbachev EraAn Independent Russia is RebornThe Putin PresidencyRussian Foreign Policy since IndependenceGovernment of the Russian FederationConstitution of the Russian FederationCultureThe Changing EconomyThe Commonwealth of Independent StatesCollapse of the Soviet UnionCommonwealth of Independent StatesEconomy under the CISSome Regional Problems of the CISWestern RepublicsBelarusUkraineMoldovaTranscaucasian RepublicsArmeniaAzerbaijanGeorgiaCentral Asian RepublicsKazakhstanKyrgyzstanTajikistanTurkmenistanUzbekistanWeb Sites and Bibliography