Harley Balzer
Title
Associate Professor
Department
Department of Government
Publications
Publications
Books
- Harley Balzer, Julian Cooper and Illka Linnako. Science, Technology and Innovation Policies: Federation of Russia. Evaluation Report . Paris: OECD, 1994.
- Harley Balzer. Soviet Science on the Edge of Reform. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1989.
Articles in journals
- Harley Balzer. "“The Social Construction of Sputnik,” Essay review of Asif Siddiqi, The Red Rockets’ Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957." Technology add Culture 52.3 (2011): 614-17.
- Harley Balzer. "Russian Higher Education to 2020." Russian Analytical Digest (2011): 614-17.
- Harley Balzer. "Obuchenie innovatsiiam v Rossii i v Kitae (Learning to Innovate in Russia and China)." Pro et Contra (2010): 52-71.
- Harley Balzer and Maria Repnikova. "Migration Between China and Russia." Post-Soviet Affairs 26.1 (2010).
- Harley Balzer. "New Approaches to Russian Political Science and Security Studies,." Demokratizatsiya 16.3 (2008): 212-228.
- Harley Balzer. "Russia and China in the Global Economy." Demokratizatsiya 16.1 (2008): 37-48.
- Harley Balzer. "Vladimir Putin’s Academic Writings and Russian Natural Resource Policy." Problems of Post-Communism 53.1 (2006): 48-54.
- Harley Balzer. "The Putin Thesis and Russian Energy Policy." Post-Soviet Affairs 21.3 (2005): 210-225.
- Harley Balzer. "Ordinary Russians? Rethinking August 1991." Demokratizatsiya 13.2 (2005): 193-218.
- Harley Balzer. "Upravliaemyi pliuralism: formiruiushchiisia rezhim V. Putina." Obshchestvennyi nauki i sovremennost’ (2004): 46-59.
- Harley Balzer. "An Acceptable Past: Memory in the Russian Extrication from Communism." Ab Impirio (2004): 449-468.
- Harley Balzer. "Routinization of the New Russians?." Russian Review Vol. 62 No. 1 (January 2003), pp. 11-36. 62.1 (2003): 11-36.
- Harley Balzer. "Demography and Democracy in Russia: Human Capital Challenges to Democratic Consolidation." Demokratizatsiya 11.1 (2003): 95-109.
- Harley Balzer. "Managed Pluralism: Vladimir Putin’s Emerging Regime." Post-Soviet Affairs 19.3 (2003): 189-226.
- Harley Balzer. "Russia’s Middle Classes." Post-Soviet Affairs 14.2 (1998): 165-186.
- Harley Balzer. "From Hypercentralization to Diversity: Continuing Efforts to Restructure Soviet Education." Technology in Society (1990): 123-149.
- Harley Balzer. "Soviet Education in 1988." Journal of Comparative Education (1988).
- Harley Balzer. "Is Less More? Soviet Science in the Gorbachev Era." Issues in Science and Technology (1985): 29-46.
- Harley Balzer. "The Soviet Union: Scientific and Technical Education." The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 38.7 (1982): 24-29.
Articles in books
- Harley Balzer. "Russia and the Limits of Authoritarian Resilience." Can We Manage A Declining Russia?. Ed. Richard Weitz. Washington DC: Hudson Institute, 2011: 85-117
- Harley Balzer and Leah Gilbert. "Civil Society." Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics & Society. Ed. Graeme Smith. London and New York: Routledge, 2011.
- Harley Balzer. "AIDS and Security in Russia." HIV-AIDS in Russia and Eurasia . Ed. Judyth Twigg. New York: Palgrave, 2006: 181-205
- Harley Balzer. "State and Society in Transitions from Communism: China in Comparative Perspective." State and Society in 21st Century China: Crisis, Contention and Legitimation. Ed. Peter Gries and Stanley Rosen. London and New York: Routledge, 2004: 235-256
- Harley Balzer. "Comment on Saskia Sassen’s ‘The Global City: Introducing a Concept." New Global History and the City. Ed. Elliott Morss. Newton Center, MA: New Global History Press (Toynbee Foundation), 2004: 55-60
- Harley Balzer. "Intelligentnye professii i intelligenty-professionaly” (Intelligentsia Professionals and Professional Intelligenty." Iz istorii russkoi intelligentsii. Ed. O. N. Ansberg, L. A. Bulgakova and I. V. Selivanova. St. Petersburg: Dmitrii Bulanin, 2003: 201-231
- Harley Balzer. "Public-Private Partnerships in Russian Education: Historical Models and Lessons." Extending the Borders of Russian History: Essays in Honor of Alfred J. Rieber. Ed. Marsha Siefert. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003: 457-479
- Harley Balzer. "Human Capital and Russian Security in the 21st Century." Russia After the Fall. Ed. Andrew Kuchins. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002: 163-184
- Harley Balzer. "Russia’s Self-Denying Middle Class in the Global Age." Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks Vol. I Actors and Sectors between Accommodation and Resistance to Globalization. Ed. Klaus Segbers. Aldershot,UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2001: 366-84
- Harley Balzer. "Poverty, Education and White Collar Trends." Poverty in Transition. Ed. United Nations Development Program . New York: UNDP, 1998: 66-89
- Harley Balzer. "Dismantling Russia’s Technotopia: Six Ministries in Search of An Industrial Policy"." Commercializing High Technology, East and West . Ed. Judith Sedaitis. : Rowman and Littlefield, 1997.
- Harley Balzer. "Plans to Reform Russian Higher Education." Education and Society in the New Russia . Ed. Anthony Jones . Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994: 27-46
- Harley Balzer. "Science, Technology and Education in the Former USSR." The Former Soviet Union in Transition . Ed. U.S. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1993: 889-908
- Harley Balzer. "Educating Scientific-Technical Revolutionaries?: Continuing Efforts to Restructure Soviet Higher Education." Soviet Education Under Perestroika. Ed. John Dunstan . London: Routledge, 1992: 164-195
- Harley Balzer. "The Problem of Professions in Imperial Russia." Between Tsar and People: Educated Society and the Quest for Public Identity in Late Imperial Russia . Ed. Edith W. Clowes, Samuel D. Kassow and James L. West. Princeton, NY: Princeton University Press, 1991: 183-198
- Harley Balzer. "Engineers: The Rise and Decline of a Social Myth." Science and the Soviet Social Order . Ed. Loren Graham. cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990: 141-167
- Harley Balzer. "Secondary Technical Education in Russia/USSR: The Muddled Middle Level." Education and Economic Development Since the Industrial Revolution . Ed. Gabriel Tortella . Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana, 1990: 289-305
- Harley Balzer. "Education, Science and Technology." The Soviet Union Today: An Interpretive Guide . Ed. James Cracraft. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988: 233-243
- Harley Balzer. "The Soviet Scientific-Technical Revolution: Education of Cadres." The Status of Soviet Civil Science . Ed. Craig Sinclair . Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987: 3-18
- Harley Balzer. "Workers Faculties and the Development of Science Cadres in the First Decade of Soviet Power." The Social Direction of the Public Sciences: The Cognitive Significance of Co-operation between Scientists and Non-scientific Groups . Ed. Stuart Blume et al.. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: D. Reidel, 1987: 193-211
Edited books
- Harley D. Balzer, ed. Russia’s Missing Middle Class: The Professions in Russian History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
- Harley D. Balzer, ed. Five Years that Shook the World: Gorbachev’s Unfinished Revolution. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.

