This is an exciting and timely collection that brings together historical, social scientific, cultural, and journalisitc perspectives on the nature of civil society and its problems and possibilities in contemporary Russia. . . . The authors fulfill their promise by uncovering deep connections between civil society and the idea of "justice."

Daniel Orlovsky, Southern Methodist University

Christopher Marsh and Nikolas Gvosdev have put together a volume that provides a unique perspective on oft-neglected aspects of civil society in Russia. It should help to provoke debate and discussion of important issues among those studying Russia's rapidly changing social and cultural landscape.

Harley D. Balzer, Georgetown University

Because of its range of topics and the unique perspective which binds them together, this collection is a thought-provoking, much-needed contribution to, among others, the fields of political science and post-Soviet studies.

Journal of Church and State

Provides a glimpse at important dimensions of the terrain and debates about the complex relationship between civil society and the search for justice.

Katherine O'Sullivan See, James Madison College, Slavic Review

This volume offers a stimulating and hard-hitting look at the crucial question of civil society-and its absence-in post-Soviet Russia. Virtually all other questions about what's happening there and what will happen in the future-democracy, pluralism, economic reform, and behavior toward neighbors-all depend on the outcome of issues probed here.

Strobe Talbott, president, The Brookings Institution