Stephen E. Hanson is the Vice Provost for Global Affairs and the Herbert J. Ellison Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Hanson is the author of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (1997), which received the 1998 Wayne S. Vucinich book award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. His more recent publications include Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (2001, with Richard Anderson Jr., M. Steven Fish, and Philip Roeder), and articles in journals including Comparative Political Studies...