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Timothy J. Colton

Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and Faculty Associate at Davis Center

Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138, 617-495-4345
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  • Timothy J. Colton is Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies and the Chair of the Department of Government. His main interest is Russian and post-Soviet government and politics.

    He is the author of The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union (1986); Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis (1995), which was named best scholarly book in government and political science by the Association of American Publishers; Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia (2000); and Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000 (with Michael McFaul, 2003). He is currently writing a book on the statecraft of Boris Yeltsin and coordinating a joint project on the post-Communist state.

    He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a member of the Joint Committee on Soviet Studies of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and vice-chairman of the National Council for East European, Russian, and Eurasian Research. He is currently a member of the editorial board of World Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs.

    Timothy J. Colton holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, 1974.

Recent Publications

  • Yeltsin: A Life
  • The State after Communism: Governance in the New Russia
  • Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000
  • Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia
  • Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis
  • The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union
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