Richard D. Anderson, Jr., is a Professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he has served on the faculty since 1989. Before earning the doctorate in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, he spent nine years in Washington, DC, as an intelligence analyst researching Soviet military capability and as a staff member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and later of the Budget Committee assigned to the office of Rep. Les Aspin. He also holds a Master’s in International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and is a graduate of Davidson College.

• Introduction: A Protester’s Tale; Part I Discursive Causality; Chapter 1 Voting and Repressing; Part II Russia Transformed; Chapter 2, 5. Material in this chapter first appeared in two journals. Some material derives from R. Anderson, Metaphors of dictatorship and democracy: Change in the Russian political lexicon and the transformation of Russian politics, Slavic Review 60, 2 (Summer 2001), 312–35. Slavic Review is published by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the material appears here with the permission of the publisher. Other material derives from R. Anderson,“Look at all those nouns in a row”: Authoritarianism, democracy, and the iconicity of political Russian, Political Communication 13, 2 (April–June 1996), 145–64. It is used by permission of the publisher, Taylor & Francis.; Chapter 3 Spreading Political Identity in Russia 1 Material in this chapter has been previously published in R. Anderson, Speech and democracy in Russia: Responses to political texts in three Russian cities, British Journal of Political Science 27, 1 (January 1997), 23–45. It is used by permission of the publisher, Cambridge University Press.; Part III Discursive Consequences of the Colonial Encounter; Chapter 4 Colonialism and Enfranchisement in Europe; Chapter 5 British Settler Colonialism and Victory in 1945; Chapter 6 The Global South;

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