ABSTRACT
In the introductory chapter of this book, it was argued that Russia’s process of post-Soviet reforms presents something of a laboratory for studying institutional change, and we made a point of how Russian scholars have begun discovering the tools of institutional theory. Returning now to that approach, we shall widen the perspective somewhat, in order to look at the Russian experience as a whole, i.e. to incorporate the main features of what was said in Chapter 2 about the burden of history.
