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In the interregnum that Kostunica's regime most likely is, ideas proliferate in febrile urgency.

Vladimir Tikhomirov's recently published "The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Russia" (MacMillan Press, London, 2000) is a minute (though never tedious) chronology and phenomenology of the Reform Movement in Russia after communism.

"Dreamworld and Catastrophe" is a cry of anguish disguised as the interdisciplinary analyses of a (neo-)Marxist scholar.

From the book "Christmas in Dairyland (True Stories from a Wisconsin Farm) (trade paperbac; 2003)