Pondering a Post-Cold War Meeting of the Minds - A short essay on the many of the domestic problems facing the Russians since the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War. Civil War in Moscow - A short history of the events in Moscow in October 1993. Includes links to photographs. Anatoliy Sergeevich Kulikov - U.S. Army's biography of the former former head of Internal Forces of the USSR and Russia's chief of police after the fall of communism. General Igor Rodionov - A U.S. Army biography of the life and military career of the Russian Minister of Defense. Economic Reform in Former Communist Systems - A study of the problems of privatizing state enterprises in Russia and other East European countries. Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy - Coverage of political, international, and security affairs in Russian Federation. Includes news, analysis, a journal, occasional papers, a searchable database of articles, and links to related papers. The USSR in 1991: The Implosion of a Superpower - A discussion and analysis of the Soviet Union's collapse in the early 1990s. Vladimir Putin: Spy Turned Politician - Article on a former KGB operative and the leading candidate in the 2000 Russian presidential elections. Discusses the dependency of his political popularity on Russia's military success in Chechnya. Who Lost Russia? - A discussion of the failure of reform in many aspects of domestic politics and policy in Russia since the end of the Cold War.