Cover art: MOSCOW - January 28, 2007. A visitor views “Revolution Perestroika?” by Russian painter Erik Bulatov at an exhibition for potential buyers and art experts of Sotheby‘s January 28, 2007, in Moscow. The auction, completely devoted to the Russian art of the XX-XXI centuries, took place in London on February 15, 2007. The lot sold at 198,000 GBP. The Sotheby‘s catalogue note described Bulatov and his work as follows: One of the most prominent aspects of Bulatov‘s art is the superimposition of text on illusionistic space and realistic representations, as can be seen in Revolution-Perestroika. The presence of text in this work evokes immediate associations with Soviet propaganda posters and banners, and alludes to the government‘s oppressive power over society. As Bulatov has explained, “Soviet ideology completely distorted our whole life. And this distorted space, full of ideology, became ordinary, customary and normal… Therefore, in my pictures, I tried to show that this kind of normality is not normal.‘ Another notable feature of Revolution-Perestroika is the tension between geometric and realistic imagery. An idealized architectural vista leads to the podium that contains a statue of Lenin, marking the transition between real, tangible existence and the visionary realm beyond. In the post-revolutionary era, a massive restructuring of society took place, accompanied by a burgeoning optimism. People were full of hope about a spiritual and material reconstruction that would affect the whole world. While Lenin dominates the compositional center of Revolution-Perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, another Soviet leader who also sought to change Soviet society, introducing his policies of glasnost and perestroika in 1986, intrudes very little upon the picture. Gorbachev‘s image obscures the slogan at bottom in such a way that the word perestroika (restructuring) is seen not in the noun form but as the imperative perestroi (restructure). (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Epsilon/Getty Images)
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Breaking Male Dominance in Old Democracies. Edited by Drude Dahlerup and Monique Leyenaar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 352p. $99.00 cloth.
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When Does Gender Matter? Women Candidates and Gender Stereotypes in American Politics. By Kathleen Dolan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 264p. $100.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
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Review of Teenage Citizens: The Political Theories of the Young. By Constance A. Flanagan. Harvard University Press, 2013. 320p. $45 paper.
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Constructing Muslims in France: Discourse, Public Identity, and the Politics of Citizenship. By Jennifer Fredette. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014. 228p. $89.50 cloth, $29.95 paper.
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Prime Ministers and Rhetorical Governance. By Dennis Grube. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 216p. $90.00.
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Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia. By Donald L. Horowitz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 342p. $89.99 cloth, $29.99 paper.
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Qatar: Politics and the Challenges of Development. By Matthew Gray. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013. 271p. $59.95. - Qatar: Small State, Big Politics. By Mehran Kamrava. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. 232p. $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
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Gender and Political Recruitment: Theorizing Institutional Change. By Meryl Kenny. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 232p. $95.00.
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Stalin: Volume 1: The Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. By Stephen Kotkin. New York: Penguin Press, 2014. 976 p. $40.00.
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Democracy & Islam in Indonesia. Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 272p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. - The Institutional Origins of Communal Violence: Indonesia’s Transition from Authoritarian Rule. By Yuhki Tajima. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 224p. $90.00.
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Multilevel Citizenship. Edited by Willem Maas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 288p. $65.00.
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The Rise and Fall of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust. By Seán Ó Riain. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 324p. $85 cloth, $32.99 paper.
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Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine. By Paulina Pospieszna. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press, 2014. 280p. $27.95.
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Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism: The Puzzle of Distributive Politics. By Susan C. Stokes, Thad Dunning, Marcelo Nazareno, and Valeria Brusco. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 344p. $ 85.00 cloth. $ 29.99 paper.
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The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. By Milan W. Svolik. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 258p. $88.00 cloth, $30.99 paper.
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The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey. By Kabir Tambar. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014. 232p. $85.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
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Challenging Multiculturalism: European Models of Diversity. Edited by Raymond Taras. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Press, 2012. 360p. $106 cloth, $37.95 paper.
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Post-Communist Democracies and Party Organization. By Margit Tavits. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 295p. $90.00 cloth. $32.99 paper.
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