Ruling Russia: Law, Crime, and Justice in a Changing Society

A brave attempt to synthesize many important themes and topics into one volume. . . . The volume as a whole is rewarding. ― Stanford Journal of International Law

A comprehensive look at Russian society in flux as reflected in the development of the law, crime, and judicial reform. — Thomas S. Pearson ― International Criminal Justice Review

Pridemore has provided a great service to the English-speaking reader interested in crime and punishment in today’s Russia. — Peter B. Maggs, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign ― Slavic Review

This collection is an ambitious undertaking. . . . This is a collection with a broad remit, and succeeds in providing a comprehensive and insightful overview. ― Seer

This book shows how hard the transition from dictatorship to democracy really is. It is not just a transition from seventy years of communism but from more than one thousand years of Russia’s past. — Sergei Khruschev, Brown University

This collection provides a wealth of analysis and food for thought on one of the most puzzling problems in Russia’s post-communist transition. The huge increase in crime rates after the collapse of the Soviet system was a challenge to the new regime and is an intellectual challenge to us all. As the chapters in the volume show, in a variety of ways, building rule of law and rebuilding the state are as complex and many-sided a task as the more oft-studied processes of moving to market economics and democratic forms of government. — Timothy J. Colton, Harvard University