Culture Matters in Russia―and Everywhere: Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

by Lawrence Harrison (Contributor), Eugene Yasin (Editor), Evgeny Yasin (Editor)

This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions.

(Cover design by Katie Makrie.)

Genres: Russia

582 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2015