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This study examines how institutional change and uncertainty has affected the evolution of center-periphery relations in Russia. The author suggests that these relations have passed through several discrete stages of institutional change. He examines three such stages, beginning in the last years of the Soviet regime and continuing through the mid-1990s, that transformed center-periphery relations within Russia. The paper concludes by discussing how changing political conditions could lead to a new period of instability in center-periphery relations.