COLTON, Timothy

Feldberg Professor of Government at Harvard University and Director of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Member of the Valdai Discussion Club Advisory Board.

Research interests: current research concerns leadership, political parties, and the dynamics of regime change in Russia and Eurasia, relations between Russia and the other post-Soviet states, and trends in Russian-American relations.

Selected publications: has written on many aspects of Soviet, Russian, and post-communist poli­tics. Books:“The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union” (1986),“Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis”(1995),“Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia” (2000), and “Popular Choice and Managed Democracy”(co-author, 2003). His study“Yeltsin: A Political Life”, based on interviews with many of the principals in the story was published in 2008.