Books
Het Russische Politburo. Geschiedenis, profiel en werkwijze. Assen (Van Gorcum) 1978, 175 pp.
Decision Making in Soviet Politics. London & Basingstoke (Macmillan) 1981, 238 pp.
The Soviet Politburo. Edinburgh & New York (Canongate & St. Martins Press) 1982, 152 pp.
De Russen en oorlog (Ed.) Utrecht/Antwerpen (Het Spectrum, Aula 763) 1985, 174 pp.
Voor Sacharov (Ed. with Bart Tromp). Amsterdam (Jan Mets) 1986, 199 pp.
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo (Co-authors: James R. Ozinga and Erik van Ree). New York (St. Martin’s Press) & London (UCL Press) 1992, 244 pp.
Heb geduld, kameraad. Michail Gorbatsjov en het einde van de Sovjetunie. Amsterdam (Jan Mets) 1992, 128 pp.
Het Sovjetsyndroom. Over de politieke nalatenschap van de Sovjetunie. Tweede, herziene editie. Leiden (Stichting Oosteuropees Recht) 1993, 220 pp.
The Reincarnation of Russia: Struggling with the Legacy of Communism, 1990-1994. Durham N.C. (Duke University Press) & London (Longman) 1995.
Party Politics in Post–Communist Russia (Edited). London & Portland, Frank Cass, 1998.
Army and State in Postcommunist Europe (Edited with David Betz). London & Portland, Frank Cass, 2001.
Stuck in the middle. The shared neighbourhood of the EU and Russia, 2000-2005. Clingendael European Papers No. 2, Den Haag (NIIB Clingendael) 2005, 45 pp.
Contributions to books
‘De Economie’, Ch. 4 in J. van het Reve (red.), Rusland. Ideologie, politiek, economie, nationaliteiten, gezin, school, sport, godsdienst en cultureel leven in de Sovjetunie. Haarlem (Gottmer) 1975, pp. 113‑142.
‘De Sovjetunie: de bedreigde status‑quo’, Ch. 10 in U. Rosenthal (red.), Politieke Stelsels. Alphen aan den Rijn (Samsom) 1982, pp. 237‑263.
‘Stagnatie in de Sovjetunie’, Spectrum Jaarboek 1982, Utrecht/Antwerpen (Spectrum) 1982, pp. 153-157.
‘Vermoedens zijn goedkoop maar ijdel. De Nederlandse pers over de toekomst van de Sovjetunie na Stalin en Chroesjtsjov’, in Rusland in Nederlandse ogen. Een bundel opstellen. Amsterdam (Van Oorschot) 1986, pp. 255‑275.
‘De Sovjetunie en de Lage Landen. Enkele aspecten van de onderlinge betrekkingen’ (co‑author Marja Roholl), in De Sovjet‑Unie en de Europese Veiligheid. Studies in International Relations; Vredesonderzoek. Leuven (Universitaire Pers) 1987, pp. 71‑94.
‘Woord Vooraf’ in Teresa Toranska, Alle middelen waren geoorloofd. Poolse stalinisten verbreken het zwijgen. Amsterdam (Sijthoff) 1987, pp. 7‑13.
‘Chernobyl: The Hypothetical Disaster’, in Uriel Rosenthal (Ed.), Crisis Management: An International Perspective, Proceedings. Brussels (International Institute of Administrative Sciences) 1988, pp. 79‑90.
‘Politieke Structuren; De kameraad en zijn staat’, in Geschiedenis en instellingen van Rusland en de Sovjetunie. (Handbook accompanying TV and radio series on Russia and the Soviet Union) Brussel/Utrecht (BRT-Teleac) 1989, pp. 163-177.
‘Disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: A Study of Crisis Decision Making in the Soviet Union’ (co-author Ger P. van den Berg), Chapter 1 in Uriel Rosenthal, Michael T. Charles & Paul ’t Hart (Eds.), Coping With Crises: The Management of Disasters, Riots and Terrorism, Springfield Ill. (Charles C. Thomas), 1989, pp. 37-65.
‘Het Sovjet parlement in beweging’ (co-author G.P. van den Berg), in Volkeren Vertegenwoordigd. De Interparlementaire Unie 100 jaar. ‘s-Gravenhage (SDU) 1989, pp. 145-154.
‘Democratisering zonder terreur: Democratisering en zuiveringen onder Stalin en Gorbatsjov’, in A. P. van Goudoever & B. Naarden (Ed.), Gorbatsjov en Stalins Erfenis. Witte plekken in de sovjetgeschiedenis. Utrecht (HES) 1989, pp. 79-88.
‘Democratization of Party Elections in the Soviet Union’, in Karin Schmid (Hrsg.), Gesetzgebung als Mittel der Perestrojka. Wunsch und Wirklichkeit. Baden-Baden (Nomos / Schriftenreihe des Bundesinstituts für ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien, Bd. 20) 1991, pp. 151-168.
‘Oekraïne verloren, rampspoed geboren’, in Katlijn Malfliet (ed.), De muur voorbij. Over systeemtransformatie in de Centraal- en Oosteuropese landen. Leuven / Apeldoorn (Garant) 1992, pp. 76-82.
‘Kyuu Sorenpou, Chekosulovakia, Yugosulavia niokeru Renpoushugi to Nashonalizumu, 1918-1992’ (Federalism and Nationalism in the USSR, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, 1918-1992), in Shugo Minagawa and Shigeru Kido (eds.), Sulavu no Seiji (Politics in the Slavic World; Volume 5 of Surabu no Sekai, The Slavic World), Tokyo (Koubundou) 1994, pp. 164-188.
‘Soviet-Russian Federalism in Comparative Perspective,’ in Takayuki Ito and Shinichiro Tabata (eds.), Between Disintegration and Reintegration: Former Socialist Countries and the World since 1989. Sapporo (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University) 1994, 91-125.
‘General Elections in Russia: Yeltsin’s Rules for the Election of the Federal Assembly and for the Plebiscite,’ in John Löwenhardt (Ed.), Cutting the Gordian Knot. Responsible Government and Elections in Russia. Sapporo (Slavic Research Center) 1994. Slavic Research Center Occasional Paper No. 49, 23-42.
‘Institutional Choices in the Transition to Democracy: Russia between parliamentarianism and presidentialism,’ in Realignment of Russian Politics. Sapporo (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University) 1994. Slavic Research Center Occasional Paper No. 50, 1-24.
Foreword to Wisla Suraska, How the Soviet Union Disappeared. An Essay on the Causes of Dissolution. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 1998, vii – x.
(with Stephen White and Margot Light) ‘Europe’s Eastern Frontier’, Chapter 6 in Charles Jenkins (ed.), The Unification of Europe? An Analysis of EU Enlargement. London: Centre for Reform, 2000, pp.57-66.
‘The Future of Russia – the relations between Centre and Regions,’ in The Future of Russia and Its Relations with the European Union and the Baltic States. Tartu: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2000, pp.19-29. Also included in Estonian translation: ‘Venemaa Tulevik – Keskvõimu ja regioonide suhted’.
(with Margot Light and Stephen White) ‘”You no longer believe in us and we no longer believe in you”: Russian attitudes towards Europe’, in Helen Wallace (ed.), Interlocking Dimensions of European Integration. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001 (June), pp.87-102.
‘Russia, the countries “in-between” and Europe’s Dual Enlargement’, in: Katlijn Malfliet and Lien Verpoest (eds.), Russia and Europe in a Changing International Environment. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001, pp. 81-100.
‘European Spaces: The eastern Schengen border and the societies “in-between”’, in: Ferdinand Feldbrugge and William B. Simons (eds.), Human Rights in Russia and Eastern Europe (Law in Eastern Europe, Vol. 51), Kluwer Law International, 2002, pp. 147-161.
(with Margot Light and Stephen White) ‘Russia and the Dual Expansion of Europe’, in Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed.), Russia between East and West. Russian Foreign Policy on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century. London / Portland (OR): Frank Cass, 2003, pp. 61-74.
‘Policy, Loyalty and Geographic Constraints in Russia’, in Katlijn Malfliet & Francesca Scharpé (eds.), The Concept of Russia: Patterns for Political Development in the Russian Federation. Leuven University Press, 2003, pp. 63-68.
Brochures
De transcriptie van Russische eigennamen. Leiden: Stichting Oosteuropees Recht, 1995.
(with Ger van den Berg:) Transcriptie van Russische Namen (eigennamen, plaatsnamen). Zesde, gewijzigde en aangevulde druk. Leiden: Stichting Oosteuropees Recht, 1999.
Bibliographies
Bibliografie van Nederlandse tijdschriftenartikelen (over de Sovjetunie en Oost‑Europa) verschenen in 1968 en 1969¢, Internationale Spectator, Jaargang XXV, Nr.14, pp. 1418‑1429.
Select Bibliography’, in De Boer, Driessen & Verhaar, Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in the Soviet Union 1956‑1975. Den Haag (Nijhoff) 1982, pp. 667‑679.
“The Russian Regions: A Bibliography” (with Stephen White), The Carl Beck Papers #1804, Pittsburgh PA, 2007, 92 pp.
Conference papers
‘Soviet Foreign Policy towards the Low Countries’, paper submitted to the Rockefeller Foundation Conference on Soviet Foreign Policy in an Uncertain World, Bellagio (Italy), November 1984.
‘The Disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. A Study of Crisis Decision Making in the Soviet Union’ (co-author Ger P. van den Berg). International Conference on Crisis Management, International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Mons (Belgium), December 1987.
‘Political Reform under Gorbachev. Towards the De‑feudalization of Soviet Politics?’, paper for the conference on Changes in the Soviet Union ‑ a challenge to the West and to East‑West relations, University of Groningen Polemological Institute, December 1987.
‘Glasnost’ in the CPSU. Some preliminary findings’, Paper prepared for the Annual Convention of the MPSA; Panel on Soviet and East European Elite Studies, Chicago (USA), 14‑16 April 1988.
‘Democratisering van de Terreur? Zuiveringen in de Sovjetunie, 1937 en 1987,’ toespraak tot het Zesde Sacharov Congres, Witte Plekken in de Sovjetgeschiedenis¢, Amsterdam Sonesta Hotel, 19 May 1988.
‘Democratization of Party Elections in the Soviet Union. The Central Committee’s Instructions on elections, 1937 ‑ 1988¢, Paper prepared for the conference on Gesetzgebung als Instrument der Perestrojka’ (Legislation as Instrument of Perestroika), Bundesinstitut fur ostwissenschaftliche und internationale Studien, Cologne (FRG), 19‑21 October 1988.
‘Towards a Multi-Party System in the Soviet Union.’ Paper for the conference on The Emergence of Party Systems in Eastern Europe, IV European Summer School on Arms Control, Security and Peace, Dubrovnik, 25 – 26 June 1990.
‘The Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation.’ Paper for the International Symposium ’91, Tokyo/Kanazawa, 25 / 27 November 1991.
(with Margot Light) “Russian and Ukrainian élite attitudes to a wider Europe”, Paper for the basees2000 Conference at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 1 – 3 April 2000.
‘The future of Russia: Relations between Centre and Regions, Opening address, 5 May 2000, to the 10th Forum Balticum, Tartu (Estonia) 5-7 May 2000.
‘“You better listen to us, we are no banana republic!” Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian élite perceptions of Europe’s dual expansion.’ Paper for the VI ICCEES World Congress, Tampere (Finland), July-August 2000.
‘Two Forgotten Countries: Belarus and Moldova’, Paper for the annual conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, 7-9 April 2001 at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. Panel ‘The Other Outsiders: Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine between East and West’
Academic articles
De vervuiling van het Bajkalmeer. De prijs van departementale koppigheid. Internationale Spectator Vol. 26, No. 2 (1972), pp. 146‑174.
The tale of the Torch. Scientists‑entrepreneurs in the Soviet Union, Survey 1974, Vol. 4 (No.93), pp. 113‑121.
De vonk en de fakkel. Prive‑initiatief in de sovjetwetenschap, Internationale Spectator, 1975, No. 1, pp. 1‑7.
Het Sovjetcolofon ‑ een sleutelgat voor de Kremlinoloog?, Internationale Spectator Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 1977), pp. 21‑32.
Inleiding bij V.N. Danilenko, Een kritiek op de burgerlijke typologieen van politieke stelsels, Acta Politica, Vol. XII, No. 1 (January 1977), pp. 77‑78.
Leonid de voorbeeldige. De memoires van Leonid Brezjnev, Streven July 1979, pp. 723‑732.
Besluitvorming in de Sovjetunie, Internationale Spectator Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (July 1981), pp. 209‑216.
Nomenklatoera en corruptie in de Sovjetunie, Internationale Spectator Vol. XXXVII, No. 7 (July 1983), pp. 429‑440.
Nomenklatoera, arbeidsrecht en de strijd tegen corruptie in de Sovjetunie, Internationale Spectator Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4 (April 1984), pp. 192‑202.
Nomenklatura and the Soviet Constitution, Review of Socialist Law Vol. 10, No. 1 (1984), pp. 35‑55.
Overtijd. Tijdrekening in de Sovjetunie, Geografisch Tijdschrift ‑ Nieuwe Reeks, Jrg. XIX (1985), No. 2, pp. 153‑156.
Ondergang van de politiek, Spiegel Historiael, Maandblad voor geschiedenis en archeologie, Jrg. 20, No.6 (Juni 1985, Speciaal nummer over de Sovjetunie in de periode 1917‑1953), pp. 271‑276.
Traders, Crusaders, and Cruise Missiles: Soviet Foreign Policy toward the Low Countries, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 481 (September 1985), pp. 41‑50.
Ideologie en maritieme ontplooiing: Sergej Gorsjkov en de maritieme macht van de staat, Marineblad, 96e Jrg., Nr.2 (February 1986), pp. 75‑82.
Over Time: Time and Politics in the USSR, Soviet Geography, Vol. XXVIII, No. 9 (November 1987), pp. 656‑664.
Political reform under Gorbachev: Towards the defeudalization of Soviet Politics?, Acta Politica, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 (January 1988), pp. 3‑20.
Verbouwing van de geest, Internationale Spectator, Vol. 42, No. 6 (June 1988), pp. 345‑49.
Wetenschappelijke en culturele samenwerking met de Sovjetunie en Oost‑Europa, Internationale Spectator Vol. 42, No. 10 (October 1988), pp. 636‑639.
Democratization of party elections in the Soviet Union. Central Committee CPSU Instructions on elections, 1937-1988, Acta Politica, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 (January 1989), pp. 63-81.
Politburo zasedaet: Reported and secret meetings of the Politburo of the CPSU. Nordic Journal of Soviet and East European Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1988), pp. 157-174.
Nomenklatura and Perestroika (co-author Ronald J. Hill), Government and Opposition, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Spring 1991), pp. 229-243.
The Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, Internationale Spectator, Vol. 45, No. 12 (December 1991), pp. 734-741.
Ruslandkunde, een normale regiostudie?, Rusland Monitor Jrg. 3, No. 6 (maart-juli 1992), pp. 4-5.
Moedertje Rusland in barensnood, Socialisme en Democratie, Vol. 50, No. 4 (april 1993), pp. 164-169.
Boris Jeltsin en de PP-kloof, Internationale Spectator Vol. 50, No. 6 (June 1996), 293.
De presidentsverkiezingen in Tatarstan, Onafhankelijk defensiemagazine ARMEX, Jrg. 80, Nr. 9 (September 1996), 10-12; Kolokol’čik 12/13 (september 1996), 28-32.
Ieder voor zich? Gouverneursverkiezingen in Rusland, Internationale Spectator, Vol. LI, No. 1 (January 1997), pp. 36-38.
The 1996 Presidential Elections in Tatarstan, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 1997), pp. 132-144. Also published in Russian tranlation as “Vybory prezidenta Rossii v Tatarstane,” Otkrytaya Politika, No. 5 (May 1997), pp. 76-82, and “Vybory prezidenta Rossii 1996 goda v Tatarstane” in V.V. Mikhailov et al. (eds.), Osobaia Zona: Vybory v Tatarstane, Ul’ianovsk: Kazanskoe Otdelenie Mezhdunarodnoi Pravozashchitnoi Assamblei, 2000, pp. 228-41.
(with Margot Light and Stephen White) ‘Jullie geloven niet langer in ons en wij geloven niet langer in jullie’ Russen over het nieuwe Europa, Internationale Spectator, Vol. 53, No. 12 (December 1999), pp. 672-77.
(with Margot Light and Stephen White:) A Wider Europe: The View from Moscow and Kyiv, International Affairs (London), Vol. 76, No. 1 (January 2000), pp. 77-88.
Russia and Europe: Growing Apart Together, The Brown Journal of World Affairs Vol. VII, Issue 1 (Winter/Spring 2000), pp. 167-74.
(with Margot Light and Stephen White) Buiten Europa Gesloten: Russische en Oekraiense Reacties, Socialisme en Democratie, Vol. 57, No. 5 (May 2000), pp. 231-39.
(with Ruben Verheul) The Village Votes: The December 1999 Elections in Tatarstan’s Pestretsy District, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 16, No. 3 (September 2000), pp. 113-22; also published in Russian as “Golosovanie na sele: Vybory v Pestrechinskom raione Tatarstana v dekabre 1999 goda”, in V.V. Mikhailov et al. (eds.), Osobaia Zona: Vybory v Tatarstane, Ul’ianovsk: Kazanskoe Otdelenie Mezhdunarodnoi Pravozashchitnoi Assamblei, 2000, pp. 242-52.
(with Margot Light and Stephen White) Russian Perspectives on European Security, European Foreign Affairs Review, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 2000), pp. 489-505.
(with David Betz) Leger en Staat in Oost-Europa, Ablak, Vol. 6, No. 2 (May 2001), pp. 12-15.
(with Ron J Hill and Margot Light) A wider Europe: the view from Minsk and Chisinau, International Affairs (London), Vol. 77, No. 3 (July 2001), pp. 513-28.
(with Stephen White and Margot Light) Belorussiya, Moldaviya, Ukraina: K Vostoku ili k Zapadu?, Mirovaya Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya, 2001 No. 7 (July), pp. 59-67.
(with Stephen White, Ian McAllister and Margot Light) A European or a Slavic Choce? Foreign Policy and Public Attitudes in Post-Soviet Europe, Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2 (March 2002), pp. 181-202.
Veiligheid voor geheel Europa?, Internationale Spectator, Vol. 56, No. 10 (October 2002), pp. 501-06.
Het Nederlandse OVSE-voorzitterschap, Moldova en de Russische diplomatie, Internationale Spectator, Jrg. 58, No. 4 (april 2004), pp. 200-205.
The OSCE, Moldova and Russian Diplomacy in 2003, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2004), pp. 1-10.
E-publications
The OSCE, Moldova and Russian diplomacy in 2003, www.EuroJournal.org, 26 April 2004.
Policy Papers
Co-author: Russia’s Futures. The EU Long-Term Strategy in Russia. Interim Report, Munich: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik / Conflict Prevention Network, 14 June 1999.
‘Wild Cards’, Chapter 5 in Russia 2010 Scenarios, Leiden-Amsterdam (Rand Europe / ING) 2002, pp. 79-82.
Translation of academic articles
(From the Russian, jointly with H.L. Verhaar:) R.A. Medvedev, ‘Het conflict in het Midden‑Oosten en het Joodse vraagstuk in de Sovjetunie¢, Internationale Spectator, Jaargang XXV, Nr.14, pp. 1372‑1417.
(From the Russian:) V.N. Danilenko, ‘Een kritiek op de burgelijke typologieen van politieke stelsels¢, Acta Politica, XII:1 (January 1977), pp. 78‑89.
Editorial activities
Political Science Section, Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie (1st. Ed., Amsterdam 1974‑1979).
(Co-editor M.P. van den Heuvel:) Special issue on censorship in the Soviet Union, Internationale Spectator, Januari 1977.
(Co-editor B. van Heijningen:) Special issue on Daily Life in the Soviet Union, Het schrale socialisme, Intermediair, 13 mei 1983.
Editorial work on the Dutch translation of David Holloway, De Sovjetunie en de bewapeningswedloop, Amsterdam (Jan Mets) 1984.
Series of articles, ‘De grenzen van een imperium’ on Soviet foreign policy towards border states, Intermediar, September ‑ October 1985.
Television and radio-series on Russia and the Soviet Union, Belgian Radio & Television & Teleac, 1983-1989 (broadcast in 1989).
Cutting the Gordian Knot. Responsible Government and Elections in Russia. Sapporo (Slavic Research Center) 1994. Slavic Research Center Occasional Paper No. 49.
Public Lectures
Ideologie & maritieme macht van de sovjet staat. Royal Institute for the Navy, Den Helder 6 March 1986.
Elections in the USSR. University of Melbourne, 4 August 1987.
Crisis Decision Making in Chernobyl. University of New South Wales, Sydney 26 August 1987.
Political Reform in the USSR. Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant 11 April 1988.
The Politburo and Political Reform. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign 19 April 1988.
The Rehabilitation of Politics in the USSR. NIAS Lecture, Wassenaar 18 May 1989.
The Emerging Multiparty System in de USSR. Impact on Foreign Policy Making. Försvarets Forskningsanstalt (Swedish National Defence Research Establishment), Stockholm 18 October 1990.
Russian Studies in the Netherlands. University of Tokyo, 20 September 1993.
Our Changing Environment. University of Glasgow 2001 Seminar, 29 January 1998.
The Future of Russia, Forum Balticum (Tartu, Estonia), 5 May 2000.
One Europe or Several? East European Reactions to NATO and EU Enlargement, Ambassadors Club, Darmstadt, 7 September 2000.
Trade, Trust and the Economic Development of Russia. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, 31 October 2002.
Belarus and the West. Amsterdam Slavists Circle BESEDA, 12 December 2002.
Politics and Political Culture in Post-Soviet Russia. Leuven University (Belgium), Institute for International and European Policy, 12 March 2003.
Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova: Left out in the Cold? Royal College of Defence Studies, London UK, 2 July 2003.
Elections in Russia. Leiden University, 20 January 2004.
Approximately 90 magazine and newspaper aricles, book reviews, 1971-2004.
Book reviews (since 1988)
- Kenez, The Birth of the Propaganda State. Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization, 1917-1929. (Cambridge 1986), in Theoretische Geschiedenis, Vol. 15, No. 4 (1988), pp. 532-535.
Michael E. Urban, More Power to the Soviets. The Democratic Revolution in the USSR. (The international library of studies in communism) Aldershot (Edward Elgar) 1990; & T. H. Rigby, The Changing Soviet System. Mono-organisational Socialism from its Origins to Gorbachev’s Restructuring. Aldershot (Edward Elgar) 1990; in: Oost-Europa Verkenningen Nr. 111 (oktober 1990), pp. 63-65.
- Oversloot, Sabbatswerkers in de Sovjetunie. Delft (Eburon) 1990; in: Acta Politica, Vol. XXVI, No. 4 (Oktober 1991), pp. 497-499.
Jan van Putten, Democratisering in de Sovjetunie. Utrecht (Het Spectrum; Aula Paperback 184) 1990; & Huib Hendrikse, Gorbatsjov en de neergang van het communisme. Den Haag (NIIB CLingendael; Clingendael Cahier 17) 1991; in: Socialisme en Democratie, Vol. 48, No. 10 (October 1991), pp. 441-444.
Angus Roxburgh, De tweede Russische revolutie. De strijd om de macht in het Kremlin. Amsterdam (Bert Bakker) 1992); in: Theoretische Geschiedenis / Historiography and Theory, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1993), pp. 64-67.
Boris Jeltsin, Dagboek uit het Kremlin. Verslag van een president (Zapiski prezidenta). Baarn (Anthos/Lannoo) 1994; in: (short version) Intermediair, Vol. 30, No. 23 (10 June 1994), 53; and (long version) Vestzak, Vol. 3, No. 5 (May 1994), 22-24.
Frederic J. Fleron Jr. & Erik P. Hoffmann (eds.), Post-Communist Studies and Political Science: Methodology and Empirical Theory in Sovietology. Foreword by Robert C. Tucker. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1993; and Tania Konn (ed.), Soviet Studies Guide. London: Bowker-Saur, 1992; in: ___________ 1995, No. 7, 62-67.
Theodore H. Friedgut and Jeffrey W. Hahn (eds.), Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics. Armonk, N.Y. and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1994. xv, 292 pp. Index. Figures. Tables. Paper. ISBN 1-56324-404-7; and Graeme Gill, The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the CPSU. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xi, 258 pp. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Hard Bound. ISBN 0-521-46537-0; in: Slavic Studies, xxxxxx
Donald D. Barry (ed.), Toward the “Rule of Law” in Russia? Political and Legal Reform in the Transition Period. Armonk, New York & London: M.E. Sharpe, 1992; in: Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 21, No. 6 (1995), 633-637.
Louise I. Shelley, Policing Soviet Society: The Evolution of State Control. London & New York (Routledge) 1996; in: Political Studies.
Karen Henderson (ed.), Back to Europe: Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union. London & Philadelphia PA: UCL Press, 1999; in: Europe–Asia Studies, Vol. 51, No. 3 (May 1999), 521-23.
Andrew Cottey (ed.), Subregional Cooperation in the New Europe. Building Security, Prosperity and Solidarity from the Barents to the Black Sea. Foreword by Thorvald Stoltenberg. Basingstoke: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999; in Europe–Asia Studies, Vol. 51, No. 5 (July 1999), 607-8.
Valery Sperling (ed.), Building the Russian State: Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic Governance. Boulder Colo.: Westview Press, 2000; in Slavic Review Vol. 60, No. 3 (Fall 2001), 666-7.
Colton, Timothy J. Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, 2000; in: Slavonic and East European Review Vol. 80. Part I (2001).
Remington, Thomas F., The Russian Parliament. Institutional Evolution in a Transitional Regime, 1989-1999; in: Europe-Asia Studies Vol. 54, No. 4 (June 2002), 641-2.
Ann Lewis (ed.), The EU & Ukraine. Neighbours, Friends, Partners? London: The Federal Trust & Kogan Page Ltd., 2002; in: Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 54, No. 7 (November 2002).
Newspaper & Magazine articles 1971 – 2004
1971-1988 (selected publications)
Russische limnologen vechten voor het behoud van het Bajkalmeer, Vrij Nederland, 9 October 1971.
Rusland herdenkt de lange tijd verguisde Dostojewski, Trouw, 6 November 1971.
Roemenië laat aanspraken op Bessarabië tegenover Moskou varen, NRC-Handelsblad, 14 August 1976.
Oude mannen aan de top, NRC-Handelsblad, 20 January 1979 (co-author Ben de Jong).
Over drie generaties zijn er in de Sovjet-Unie alleen nog maar Russen. Gesprek met Sovjetdemograaf Viktor Perevedentsev, Intermediair, 12 October 1979.
Propaganda Moskou zal averechts werken, de Volkskrant, 17 November 1979.
Dissidenten stemmen in met stappen Carter, Het Parool, 14 January 1980.
Noch China, noch de mohammedanen zullen ons helpen. We zullen het helemaal zelf moeten doen. De simpele vredesboodschap van generaal Grigorenko, Vrij Nederland, 28 June 1980.
De studentenuitwisseling en ‘het geheim van het Catshuis’, Vrij Nederland, 9 August 1980.
Een Russische vrouw laat zich gemiddeld tien tot vijftien keer aborteren. Tatjana Goritsjeva, Natalja Malachovskaja en Tatjana Mamonova: Feministen in ballingschap, Vrij Nederland, 30 August 1980 (co-author Ageeth Scherphuis).
Al dat gepraak over liberalisatie na de dood van Stalin is een groot bedrog. Interview met de dissidenten-advocaat Lev Joedovitsj, Intermediair, 20 March 1981.
Brezjnevs orde leidt slechts tot compromissen, Trouw, 18 May 1981.
Weimar. Hoogromantiek in de Duitse Volksrepubliek, Avenue, August 1982 (co-author Beatrijs van Westerop).
De dikke staart van Brezjnev, Intermediair, 19 November 1982.
Sovjet-Unie viert vooral haar eigen triomf op nazi-Duitsland, Het Parool, 9 May 1985.
Kernramp versterkt oppositie in Sovjet-Unie, NRC-Handelsblad, 6 May 1986.
Gorbatsjov is minder vriendelijk dan het lijkt, de Volkskrant, 15 January 1987.
Kremlinologica. Het Centraal Comité in vergadering bijeen, Intermediair, 20 February 1987 (co-author G. P. van den Berg).
Sovjet-Unie blijft voorzichtig bij verkiezings-experiment, de Volkskrant, 21 May 1987.
1988 – 1991
‘Wat zijn je plannen, kandidaat?’, Verkiezingskoorts in de Sovjetunie (‘What are your plans, candidate?’ Election fever in the Soviet Union), Intermediair, 24 February 1989.
Onvoorziene gevolgen van perestrojka (Unanticipated consequences of perestroika), De Volkskrant, 2 December 1989.
Oost-Europa: de rode ster dooft (Eastern Europe: the dulling red star), FNV Magazine, 16 December 1989.
Het einde van de hoop (The end of hope), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 12 January 1990; Intermediair (Brussels), Vol. 21, Nr. 5 (5 February 1990), pp. 6-7.
Het gelijk van Sacharov (Obituary Andrei Sakharov), Socialisme en Democratie, Vol. 47, No. 3
(March 1990), pp. 71-72.
Machtsvacuüm in Moskou (Power vacuum in Moscow), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 15 June 1990, pp. 5-9; Intermediair (Brussels), Vol. 21, No. 27 (10 July 1990), pp. 1-6.
De Sovjet-centrifuge, Jason Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 3 (June 1990), p. 2.
Dr. Clavan in Harrogate, Intermediair (Amsterdam), 3 August 1990, pp. 14-15.
Michail Gorbatsjov [Nobel Peace Prize], Intermediair (Amsterdam), 7 December 1990, pp. 27-29.
Gorbatsjov leunt steeds zwaarder op de generaals (Gorbachev leans on the generals more and more heavily), de Volkskrant, 22 December 1990.
Meerstemmige USSR (Many-voiced USSR), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 11 January 1991, p. 5.
Wie is de baas? (Who is in charge?), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 18 January 1991, p. 5.
Het Westen verschuilt zich achter de rug van Gorbatsjov (The West hides behind Gorbachevs back), de Volkskrant, 24 January 1991.
Riskant Referendum (Risky Referendum), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 8 February 1991, p. 5.
Papieren macht. Gorbatsjov en de rechtsstaat, Intermediair (Amsterdam), 15 March 1991, pp. 29-33.
Oude reflexen (Old reflexes), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 5 April 1991, p. 5.
De boeren slapen (The peasants are asleep), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 10 May 1991, pp. 5-7.
Zonder Gorbatsjov (Without Gorbachev), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 21 June 1991, pp. 5-7.
EG-absurdisme (EG-absurdism), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 16 August 1991, p. 5.
Als het Russische volk coup kan verijdelen, kan het alles (If Russian people can defeat coup, it can do anything), de Volkskrant, 22 August 1991.
Exit Gorbatsjov, Intermediair (Amsterdam), 23 August 1991, p. 5.
Stabiliserende kracht (Stabilizing force), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 13 September 1991, pp. 7-9.
Drie misverstanden (Three misconceptions), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 15 November 1991, p.7.
Gorbatsjovs triomf was eigenlijk altijd een tragedie (Gorbachevs triumph was always a tragedy), de Volkskrant, 14 December 1991.
Van Brest naar Oldenzaal is maar een kattesprong, Intermediair (Amsterdam), 20 December 1991, pp. 11-13;
Het GOS is geen nieuwe Sovjetunie (CIS is no new Soviet Union), Intermediair (Brussels), 14 January 1992, pp. 1-5.
1991 – 2004
Russische democraten (Russian democrats), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 7 February 1992, p. 7.
Njoerenberg (Neurenberg), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 12 June 1992, p. 7-9.
Gemakkelijke uitweg (An easy way out), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 4 September 1992, p. 9.
Het gewonde ego (The hurt ego), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 18 September 1992, 11-13.
Russische blauwhelmen. Vredeshandhaving in de voormalige Sovjetstaten (Russian blue helmets. Peace keeping in the former Soviet states), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 30 October 1992, 21-23.
Jeltsins staatsgreep (Yeltsins coup d’etat), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 6 November 1992, 7.
Gezonde achterdocht (Healthy mistrust), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 4 December 1992, 7-9.
Langzaam uit het moeras (Slowly out of the swamp), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 5 February 1993, 7.
Jeltsin slaat terug (Yeltsin hits back), Intermediair (Amsterdam), 26 March 1993, 7.
Een enkele misstap is onvoldoende om een president af te zetten (co-author Ger van den Berg), de Volkskrant, 26 March 1993, 9.
Rusland zwalkt tussen machtsvertoon en diplomatiek falen, de Volkskrant, 31 December 1994, 4.
Jeltsin verliest, de democratie wint, Intermediair (Amsterdam), 28 July 1995, 13-15.
Rusland richt zich langzaam op, Intermediair (Amsterdam), 15 December 1995, 9-11.
Tussen de stembussen: De Staatsdoemaverkiezingen van 17 december 1995, Vestzak (Leiden), 4e Jrg., No. 12 (December 1995), 15-20.
Wie regeert in het Kremlin?, Elsevier 7 September 1996, 54.
De verscheurde Russische staat, Intermediair (Amsterdam), 27 February 1997, 48-51.
Europa moet niet zo zeuren over Tsjetsjenië, de Volkskrant, 30 October 1999.
Poetins democratische autocratie, de Groene Amsterdammer, 19 mei 2001, 20-1.
Tien jaren later: de ontnuchtering, Ablak, november 2002, 6-8.
NAVO en EU worden gevoeliger voor crises, de Volkskrant, 12 december 2002.
Nog is Rusland niet verloren, Internationale Spectator (column), november 2003.
Asociale markteconomie in de nieuwe lidstaten (co-author Charles Woolfson), Ablak, March 2004, 12-13.
De EU en Rusland in Poetins tweede termijn, Europa in Beweging, april 2004 (29e jrg., no. 2), 7.