Guest: Peter Rutland is a professor of government at Wesleyan University. He writes widely on Russian political economy and politics and is author of two books The Politics of Economic Stagnation in the Soviet Union and The Myth of the Plan: Lessons of Soviet Planning Experience. His most recent article is “Petro-nation.pdf">Petronation? Oil, Gas and National Identity in Russia,” published in the journal Post-Soviet Affairs. Music: Killing Joke, “Money is Not Our God,” Extremities, Dirt, and Various Repressed Emotions, 1990.