Abbreviations Acknowledgments Foreword Craig Calhoun Introduction Piotr Dutkiewicz and Dmitri Trenin1 Missing in Translation: Re-conceptualizing Russia's Developmental State Piotr Dutkiewicz 2 The Long Road to Normalcy: Where Russia Now Stands Vladimir Popov 3 The Sovereign Bureaucracy in Russia's Modernizations Georgi Derluguian 4 The Changing Dynamics of Russian Politics Richard Sakwa5 Leadership and the Politics of Modernization Timothy J. Colton 6 The Sociology of Post-reform Russia Mikhail K. Gorshkov7 Elites: The Choice for Modernization Leonid Grigoriev 8 Education for an Innovative Russia Nur Kirabaev 9 Health and Healthcare in Russia Today and Tomorrow Oleg Atkov and Guzel Ulumbekova10 The Imaginary Curtain Roderic Lyne11 What Kind of a Europe for What Kind of Russia Alexander Rahr12 The Obama Administration's "Reset Button" for Russia Andrew C. Kuchins 13 Russia: The Eastern Dimension Bobo Lo 14 Russia and the Newly Independent States of Central Asia: Relations Transformed Rustem Zhangozha15 Of Power and Greatness Dmitri Trenin afterword Russia and the West: Toward Understanding Vladimir I. Yakunin About the Contributors Index