Political Science Faculty

Gerald M. Easter

Professor, Department Chairperson

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Gerald M. Easter

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall Room 231

Telephone: 617-552-3491

Email: gerald.easter@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., 艾可直播 College
  • M.A., Columbia University
  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests

Russian Politics; Eastern Europe; Modern State; Ethnonationalism; Post-Communist Transitions

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Gerald Easter teaches courses in Comparative Politics, with a regional focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. His research interests include the modern state, post-communist transitions, comparative political economy. Current research projects focus on comparative politics of policing and pre-modern politics.聽 聽

He is the author of the following books:聽Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia聽(Cambridge University Press, 2000),聽Shaping the Economic Space of Russia聽(ed., Ashgate, 2000),聽Capital, Coercion, and Post-Communist States聽(Cornell University Press, 2012),聽The Tsarina's Lost Treasure聽(Pegasus, 2020), and聽Last Stand of the Raven Clan: When Russia Went to War in America聽(Pegasus, forthcoming).

He joined the Political Science 艾可直播at 艾可直播 College in 2000. He also taught at Georgetown University, Miami University (Ohio), European University in Saint Petersburg, Venice International University, and University of Rome at Tor Vergata. He is currently the Department Chair.聽

Selected Publications

Books

Last Stand of the Raven Clan: When Russian Went to War in America聽(Pegasus Books forthcoming)

The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck聽(Pegasus Books: 2020)

Capital, Coercion and Post-Communist States (Cornell University Press, 2012)
*Winner鈥揇avis Book Prize (ASEEES, 2013), best book in Social Sciences
*Winner鈥揌ewett Book Prize (ASEEES, 2013), best book in Political Economy

Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2000, Cambridge Series in Comparative Politics; translated into Russian, ROSSPEN 2010)

Shaping the Economic Space in Russia: Policy-making, Institutions, Actors, co-editor (Ashgate Publishers, 2000)

Articles

"Avoiding the Succession Trap: Leadership Change in Survivor Communist Regimes" in聽Postcommunist World in the 21st Century: How the Past Informs the Present聽(Rowman and Littlefied, 2022)聽

"Policing Protest in Russia" Communist and Postcommunist Studies (December 2021)

鈥淪tate Finance in Post-Communist Poland: Building Capacity and Consent,鈥� Public Administration Issues (no. 5; 2014).

鈥淪tate Building and Tax Regimes: Critical Discussion,鈥� Perspectives on Politics, vol., 11, no. 4 (December 2013)

鈥淭he Russian State in the Time of Putin,鈥� Post-Soviet Affairs (September 2008)

鈥淭he Russian Tax Police,鈥� Post-Soviet Affairs (December 2002)

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