This week’s show featured two lectures delivered at a recent conference entitled “Sic Transit … Power Transfer Moscow Style,” and sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology and Policy.

Professor John Dunlop of the Hoover Institute spoke on “A Unique Transition: From Gorbachev To Yeltsin.” Afterwards, Dr. Stephen Blank of the U.S. War College spoke on “Lingering Questions: The Yeltsin-Putin Transition.”