Sergei M. Plekhanov

Education and career

Current positions and written works

• Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, York University
• Coordinator of the Post-Communist Studies Program at York Centre for International and Security Studies
• Director, South and Central Asia Project, York University
• Senior Associate of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto
• Secretary, Canadian Pugwash Group

• "Russia and the West: Integration and Tensions" in: J.L.Black and Michael Johns Russia after 2012: From Putin to Medvedev to Putin: continuity, change, or revolution? New York: Routledge, 2013
• “Russia – A Resurgent Power?”, in: J.L. Black and Michael Johns From Putin to Medvedev: Continuity or Change? Manotick: Penumbra Press, 2009
• “Communist Party of the Russian Federation”, in: Bruce Adams, Edward Lazzerini and George Rhyne. The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Vol.5, Academic International Press, 2005
• “Organized Crime, Business, and the Russian State”, in: Felia Allum, Renate Siebert Organized Crime and the Challenge to Democracy. Routledge, 2003
• “Market Geopolitics: Continuity and Change in Russian Foreign Policy”, in: Lenard Cohen, Brian Job, Alexander Moens Foreign Policy Realignment in the Age of Terror. Toronto: The Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 2003
• “Civil-Military Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: Rebuilding the “Battle Order”?”, in: Natalie Mychajlyszyn, Harald von Riekhoff The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in East-Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003
• “The Politics of ‘Mimicry’: The Case of Eastern Europe", in: Albert Legault and Joel Sokolsky. The Soldier and the State in the Post Cold War Era. Kingston: Royal Military College of Canada, 2002
• Co-editor, with Harvey Simmons: Is Fascism History? Selected papers presented at the conference held at York University 28–29 October 1999. Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies, York University, 2001
• "NATO Enlargement As An Issue in Russian Politics", in: Jacques Levesque The Future of NATO: Enlargement, Russia, and European Security. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press, 1999
• Co-author and co-editor, with John Logue and John Simmons: Transforming Russian Enterprises: From State Control to Worker Ownership. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995
• Co-author and co-editor, with John Logue and John Simmons: Preobrazovanie predprijatij. Amerikanskij opyt i rossijskaja dejstvitel'nost'
• "Soviet Perceptions of Long-Term Western Developments, Goals and Constraints", in: Klaus Gottstein Mutual Perceptions of Long-Term Goals. Can the United States and the Soviet Union Cooperate Permanently? Campus Verlag - Westview Press, 1991
• "Pravyj ekstremism i vneshnyaya politika SShA". Moscow: Nauka, 1987
• “Political Consciousness of Right Radicalism”, in: Eduard Batalov and Yuri Zamoshkin. Political Consciousness in the USA: Traditions and Modernity''. Revised and expanded edition. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984