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New & Published Titles:

Russia’s Federal Relations

Putin's Reforms and Management of the Regions

By Elena Chebankova

The development of centre-regional relations has been at the forefront of Russian politics since the formation of the Russian state and numerous efforts have been…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55961-4 (Routledge)

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Critical Theory in Russia and the West

Edited by Alastair Renfrew, Galin Tihanov

The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s, once accepted…

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November 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37475-0 (Routledge)

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Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Russia

By Sinikukka Saari

European regional organisations have spent significant amount of time, energy and money in supporting Russia's transition towards the western liberal-democratic model since the end of…

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October 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48445-9 (Routledge)

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Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

By Frances Millard

This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent…

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August 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-54730-7 (Routledge)

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Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950

By Michael Fleming

This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944–1950. It shows…

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August 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47651-5 (Routledge)

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Between Stalin and Hitler

Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46

By Geoffrey Swain

Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947, this book focuses on the heart of…

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August 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54604-1 (Routledge)

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Russian Society and the Orthodox Church

Religion in Russia after Communism

By Zoe Knox

Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It…

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August 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54616-4 (Routledge)

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Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin

The Baton and Sickle

Edited by Neil Edmunds

This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. It examines the different strategies adopted by…

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August 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54620-1 (Routledge)

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Soviet Karelia

Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920–1939

By Nick Baron

In 1920, Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia, a Russian territory adjacent to Finland, into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could…

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June 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54538-9 (Routledge)

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The Making of Modern Lithuania

By Tomas Balkelis

This book argues that – contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric – Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence…

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May 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45470-4 (Routledge)

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Series Details:

Dr Richard Sakwa, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

Routledge is proud to announce a new series. Published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The primary aim of the series is to publish original, high-quality, research-level work by both new and establishes scholars, on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects. Works of synthesis, reference books, and student textbooks will also be considered. Submissions for prospective authors are welcomed, and should be sent in the first instance to the series editor.

Forthcoming Titles:

Poland's Troubled Transition, 1989-2008
By Jacqueline Hayden
To be published November 15th 2010

Russian Foreign Policy from El'tsin to Putin
By Peter J.S. Duncan
To be published October 1st 2010

The Baltic States: From Soviet Union to European Union
By Richard Mole
To be published August 17th 2010

Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1956–64
Edited by Jeremy Smith, Melanie Ilic
To be published August 17th 2010

Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia
By Charlotte Henze
To be published August 15th 2010

Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia
By Charles Walker
To be published July 20th 2010

The EU-Russia Borderland
Edited by Heikki Eskilinen, Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott
To be published July 15th 2010

Presidential Power and Television in Putin’s Russia
By Tina Burrett
To be published June 30th 2010

Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism
Edited by Roland Dannreuther, Luke March
To be published May 19th 2010

Building Big Business in Russia: The Impact of Informal Corporate Governance Practices
By Yuko Adachi
To be published March 3rd 2010

Constitutional Bargaining in Russia, 1990-93: Institutions and Uncertainty
By Edward Morgan-Jones
To be published February 5th 2010

The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia: Old Intellectuals in the New Russia
By Inna Kochetkova
To be published December 1st 2009