Russia and Eurasia 2025–2026

Navruz Nekbakhtshoev has taught political science courses at St. Olaf College, and University of Nebraska Omaha. He earned his PhD in political science with a minor in Central Eurasian studies at Indiana University. His fieldwork for his dissertation was conducted in Tajikistan. He has published some of his research on Eurasian politics in journals such as Central Asian Affairs, Nationalities Papers, Central Asian Survey, Development, and Journal of Peasant Studies. The courses that he regularly teaches at University of Nebraska Omaha include Comparative Democratization, and Politics in Authoritarian Regimes.

• 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