FACULTY

Jonathan Harris, PhD Columbia University, 1966 Professor of Political Science 4437 Posvar Hall e-mail: jonharri@pitt.edu

COURSES/SYLLABI

PS 2341 Government and Politics of the USSR/Russian Federation
PS 2512 Soviet/Russian Foreign Policy

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Comparative politics, USSR and Russian Federation, international politics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

The Split in Stalin's Secretariat, 1939-1948. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008.

Suberting the System: Gorbachev's Reform of the Party's Apparat, 1986-1991. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

“The Municipal Legislature in Novosibirsk, 1992-1995” Demokratizatsiia (Spring 1997) 5:2.

“President and Parliament in the Russian Federation” in Kurt von Mettenheim, ed., Presidential Institutions and Democratic Politics, 1997.

Articles on Ligachev and Yakovlev in Joseph Wiecyznsku, The Gorbachev Encyclopedia, 1993.

“Adrift in Turbulent Seas: The Political and Ideological Struggles of Ivan K. Polozkov,” The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies (June 1993), 1005.

“Vadim Andreevich Medvedev and the Transformation of Party Ideology, 1988-1990” The Russian Review (July 1992), 51.

OTHER FACULTY POSITIONS

Core faculty member, Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University Center for International Studies.

Editor, Russian and East European Studies Series, University of Pittsburgh Press.