Other publications

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Books

2014

Beissinger, Mark, and Stephen Kotkin, eds. Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

2002

Beissinger, Mark R., and Crawford Young, eds. Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

1990

Hajda, Lubomyr, and Mark Beissinger, eds. The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.

1988

Beissinger, Mark R. Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Journal articles

2024

Beissinger, Mark R. “The Evolving Study of Revolution.” World Politics 75.5 (2024): n. pag.
evolving study of revolution

2023

Beissinger, Mark R. “Collapse from Inside-Out or Outside-In?.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 24.1 (2023): 847–852. Print.
Zubok review

2017

Beissinger, Mark R. “‘Conventional’ and ‘Virtual’ Civil Societies in Autocratic Regimes.” Comparative Politics 49.3 (2017): 351–371. Print.
beissinger.conventionalvirtual.pdf

2015

Beissinger, Mark R. “Self-Determination As a Technology of Imperialism: The Soviet and Russian Experiences.” Ethnopolitics 14.5 (2015): 479–487. Print.
beissinger.selfdetermination.pdf
Beissinger, Mark R., Amaney Jamal, and Kevin Mazur. “Explaining Divergent Revolutionary Coalitions: Regime Strategies and the Structuring of Participation in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions.” Comparative Politics 48.1 (2015): 1–24. Print.
beissingerjamalmazur.pdf

2013

Beissinger, Mark R. “The Semblance of Democratic Revolution: Coalitions in Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.” American Political Science Review 107.3 (2013): 574–592.
beissinger.apsr_.pdf

2011

Beissinger, Mark R. “Mechanisms of Maidan: The Structure of Contingency in the Making of the Orange Revolution.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 16.1 (2011): 25–43. Print.
beissinger.mechanismsofmaidan.pdf

2009

Beissinger, Mark R. “Nationalism and the Collapse of Soviet Communism.” Journal of Contemporary European History 18.3 (2009): 331–347. Print.
beissinger.ceh_.article.pdf

2008

Beissinger, Mark R. “The Persistence of Empire in Eurasia: Presidential Address to the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.” NewsNet 48.1 (2008): 1–8. Print.
beissinger.aaasspresidentialaddress.pdf
Beissinger, Mark R. “A New Look at Ethnicity and Democratization.” Journal of Democracy 19.3 (2008): 85–97. Print.
beissinger.jodethnicity.pdf

Book chapters

In Preparation

Beissinger, Mark R. n.d. “Thinking Within and Beyond the Episode: The Processual Approach Through a Historical Lens”. In Processual Perspectives in the Study of Collective Action, edited by Lorenzo Bosi and Stefan Malthaner.

Forthcoming

Beissinger, Mark R. n.d. “The Greek Revolution in Comparative Perspective”. In New Perspectives on the Greek Revolution, edited by Constantine Arvanitopoulos and Panagiotis Roilos. Leiden: Brill.

2023

Beissinger, Mark R. 2023. “Révolution Et Nationalism [Revolution and Nationalism]”. In Histoire Globale Des révolutions [Global History of Revolutions], edited by Ludivine Bantigny et al., 1085-1108. Paris: Editions La Découverte.

2020

Beissinger, Mark R. 2020. “China, Russia, and the Authoritarian Embrace of Globalization”. In Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing Russia and China, edited by Valerie Bunce, Karrie Koesel, and Jessica Chen Weiss, 303-15. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
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Beissinger, Mark R. 2020. “Social Sources of Counterrevolution: State-Sponsored Contention During Revolutionary Episodes”. In Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Social Movements, edited by Gregorz Ekiert, Elizabeth Perry, and Yan Xioajun, 140-65. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
social_sources_of_counterrevolution.pdf

2019

Beissinger, Mark R. 2019. “Disciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, and the Plurality of Area Studies: A View from the Social Sciences”. In The Rebirth of Area Studies: Challenges for History, Politics and International Relations in the 21st Century, edited by Zoran Milutinovic, 129-50. London, UK: I. B. Tauris.

2017

Beissinger, Mark R. 2017. “Beyond the Neo-Weberian Yardstick? Thinking of the State in Multiple Registers”. In Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia, edited by John Heathershaw and Edward Schatz, 232-42. Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh University Press.

2014

Beissinger, Mark R., and Gwendolyn Sasse. 2014. “An End to Patience? The 2008 Global Financial Crisis and Political Protest in Eastern Europe”. In Mass Politics in Tough Times: Opinions, Votes, and Protest in the Great Recession, edited by Larry Bartels and Nancy Bermeo, 334-70. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
beissingersasse.econprotest.pdf

2009

Beissinger, Mark R. 2009. “The Intersection of Ethnic Nationalism and People Power Tactics in the Baltic States, 1987-1991”. In Civil Resistance and Power Politics, edited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash, 231-46. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.