Publications
Book Publications
John P. Moran, A Prophet of Modern Delusions: Tolstoy’s Critique of Modernity (Lexington Books, Lanham: Maryland, 2024)
John P. Moran, The Solution of the Fist: Dostoevsky and the Roots of Modern Terrorism (Lexington Books, Lanham: Maryland, 2009).
John P. Moran, From Garrison State to Nation State: The Russian Military and Political Power under Gorbachev and Yeltsin (Praeger, Westport: Connecticut, 2001).
Journal Publications
John P. Moran, "Anna Karenina: The Tragic Heroine of a Liquid Society," The Political Science Reviewer, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2022).
John P. Moran, "Red Team or Red Herring? Lessons Learned from the Policy
Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group," The International Journal of Intelligence, Security, and Public Affairs, Vol. 23, 2021, pp. 1-25.
John P. Moran, "Tolstoy and the Errors of Scientific Certainty," VoegelinView, February 14, 2020. https://voegelinview.com/tolstoy-and-the-errors-of-scientific-certainty/
John P. Moran, "The Holes of an Ordinary Life: Tolstoy's Pauline Revision," Catholic Social Science Review, Vol. 24, 2019.
John P. Moran, "Vengeance is Mine: Levin's Obscured Faith Journey in Anna Karenina," VoegelinView, March 13, 2018. https://voegelinview.com/vengeance-mine-levins-obscured-faith-journey-anna-karenina/
John P. Moran, "Between Scylla and Charybdis: Legitimacy, Public Opinion, and Church Doctrine," Catholic Social Science Review, Vol. 22, 2017.
John P. Moran, "Humility and the Power of Conundrum in The Way of the Pilgrim," Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Vol. 50 (4), 2015.
John P. Moran, "Tolstoy's Hedgehog: Violence, Conflict, and the Deification of Reason," Perspectives on Political Science, 43(3), 2014.
John P. Moran, "Dostoevsky on Christian Humility and Humiliation," Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Vol. 48 (1), Spring 2013, pp. 79-105.
John P. Moran, ''The Roots of Terrorist Motivation: Shame, Rage, and Violence in The Brothers Karamazov,'' Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 38 (4), Fall 2009.
Eva Jaskovska and John P. Moran, ''Justice or Politics? Criminal, Civil and Political Adjudication in the Newly Independent Baltic States,'' Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 22, (4), December 2006, pp.485-506.
Steven C. Buttrick and John P. Moran, ''Russia's Missing Link? Social Capital, Entrepreneurialism, and Economic Performance in Post-communist Russia,'' Communist and Post-communist Studies, Vol. 38, 2005, pp. 357-368.
Christopher C. Carney and John P. Moran, "Imagining Communities on the Southern Periphery of Russia's Empire: Nationalism and Inter-state Affect in the Caucasus and Central Asia," Asian Affairs, Vol. 26 (4), Winter 2000, pp. 179-200.
John P. Moran, "Back to the Future? Tolstoy and Post-Communist Russian Military Politics," Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Vol. 12 (40), December 1999, pp. 54-77.
John P. Moran, "Praetorians or Professionals? Democratization and Military Intervention in Communist and Post-Communist Russia," Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 15 (2), June 1999, pp. 41-68.
John P. Moran, "The Communist Torturers of Eastern Europe: Prosecute and Punish or Forgive and Forget?" Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, March 1994.
Book Chapters
John P. Moran, "Introduction: Gregorii Gershuni: Terrorism and the Politics of Resentment" in Katya Vladimirov, Autobiography of Gregorii Gershuni (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015).
John P. Moran, "This Star Will Shine Forth From the East: Dostoevsky and the Politics of Humility" in Dostoevsky's Political Philosophy, eds. Richard Avramenko and Lee Trepanier (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013).
Book Reviews
Review of David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, eds., Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), "Solzhenitsyn’s Continuing Relevance to American Politics and Culture," in VoegelinView (December 17, 2020) found at https://voegelinview.com/solzhenitsyns-continuing-relevance-to-american-politics-and-culture/
Review of Elena Shestopal, New Trends in Russian Political Mentality: Putin 3.0 (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015) in (2017). "What Numbers Can and Cannot Tell us About Russian Politics," in Voegelinview (March 16, 2017) found at https: voegelinview.com/numbers-can-cannot-tell-us-russian-politics/
Review of Zoltan Barany, Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007) in Perspectives on Politics Vol. 8 (3) September 2010, pp. 264-265.
Review of J. L. Merolla, & E. J. Zechmeister, Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009) in Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 43 (7), July 2010, 921-925.
Review of Herbert J. Ellison, Boris Yeltsin and Russia's Democratic Transformation (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2006) in The Historian, Vol. 70 (3), Fall 2006, 576-577.
Review of Alex Pravda (ed.), Leading Russia: Putin in Perspective. Essays in Honour of Archie Brown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) in Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58 (5), July 2006, 803-804.
