Tattered Banners

This book examines Russia's emergent labor politics in the critical first years of the post-Soviet period, focusing on the problems Yeltsin encountered in attempting to adopt a "corporatist" solution to the conflicts of interest that have arisen between labor, employers, and the state.

Walter D. Connor is professor of political science, sociology, and international relations at Boston University and a fellow of Harvard University's Russian Research centre.

Slippery Surfaces: Conceptualizing Russia's Political Transition -- Searching for Consensus: Corporatism's "Shakedown Cruise," 1992 -- Disunited Front: Trade Union Politics and Conflict -- Renewal or Exhaustion? Trilateralism and Conflict in 1993 -- Institutions and Conflict in the Russian Transition -- Epilogue: 1996