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  Assessing the Soviet Oil Economy 

  Keaton, Charles Grant (Georgetown University, 2016)

  This research evaluates the methodologies used by four leading macroeconomic models—SOVMOD, SOVSIM, the RAND model, and the Decision Sciences Application model—to study the Soviet oil economy, a key yet opaque sector of ...
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  POLITICS OR PROFITS? GAZPROM, THE KREMLIN, AND RUSSIAN ENERGY POLICY 

  Swinn, Eric S. (Georgetown University, 2013)

  This paper adds to the ongoing discussion of Gazprom's role in Russia by placing the debate around Gazprom within the broader contexts of both the increasing prevalence of national oil companies in the world and the changing ...
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  THE SPRAY CAN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD: STREET ART AS A MEDIUM FOR POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN THE POST-SOVIET REGION 

  Zimberg, Alexis M. (Georgetown University, 2012)

  In authoritarian states, opposition movements and members of civil society lack unrestricted and uncensored access to the mainstream media and subsequently to the public sphere. As a result, those wishing to express their ...
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  Modes and Functions of Imitation: Molière, Fonvizin, and Griboedov 

  Holekamp, Abigail (Georgetown University, 2012)

  The imitation of one cultural or societal group by another is a measure not only of how the imitators view the culture they seek to emulate, but also of how they judge themselves. With its literary and performance aspects, ...
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  A 'NEW LOOK' AT THE RUSSIAN MILITARY: WHAT THE 2008 RUSSO-GEORGIAN WAR EXPLAINED ABOUT ONGOING MANPOWER REFORMS IN THE RUSSIAN MILITARY 

  Agoulnik, Artem (Georgetown University, 2012)

  The military of the Russian Federation celebrates twenty years of existence in 2012, much of which it has spent struggling with the challenges of adapting to a post-Soviet world. The latest round of reforms was initiated ...

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