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New & Published Titles:
The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party
This book, based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources, including the party archives, provides a great deal of new information on the disintegration…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43439-3 (Routledge)
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The New Right in the New Europe
Czech Transformation and Right-Wing Politics, 1989–2006
This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the Czech…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34135-6 (Routledge)
Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region
The Donbas in Transition
This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It… read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32228-7 (Routledge)
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The Germans of the Soviet Union
The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German. Using rarely seen archival…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40731-1 (Routledge)
The Limits of Russian Democratisation
Emergency Powers and States of Emergency
Written by an established scholar in the field, this text examines the nature of emergency powers and their use in the Russian constitution. It explores…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36374-7 (Routledge)
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The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland
Strategic Misperceptions and Unanticipated Outcomes
Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989.…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36805-6 (Routledge)
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Russia as a Great Power
Dimensions of Security Under Putin
After a period of relative weakness and isolation during most of the 1990s, Russia is again appearing as a major security player in world politics.…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35996-2 (Routledge)
The Legacy of Soviet Dissent
Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia
During the 1970s, dissidents like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn dominated Western perceptions of the USSR, but were then quickly forgotten, as Gorbachev's reformers monopolised the spotlight.…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33320-7 (Routledge)
Small-Town Russia
Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities: A Portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000
This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33874-5 (Routledge)
State Building in Ukraine
The Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003
This book examines the development of the Ukrainian parliament - the Verkhovna Rada - from before Ukraine's independence in 1991 to the present. It shows… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33195-1 (Routledge)
Series Details:
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:
Bolshevising the Soviet Communist Party
By Younhee Kang
To be published January 30th 2011
The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of Soviet Russia, 1917-1932
By Matthias Neumann
To be published December 31st 2010
Poland's Troubled Transition, 1989-2008
By Jacqueline Hayden
To be published November 15th 2010
Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia
By Charles Walker
To be published October 20th 2010
The Baltic States: From Soviet Union to European Union
By Richard Mole
To be published October 17th 2010
Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1956–64
Edited by Jeremy Smith, Melanie Ilic
To be published October 17th 2010
The EU-Russia Borderland
Edited by Heikki Eskilinen, Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott
To be published October 15th 2010
Russian Foreign Policy from El'tsin to Putin
By Peter J.S. Duncan
To be published October 1st 2010
Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic
Edited by Helena Goscilo, Vlad Strukov
To be published September 30th 2010
The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia: The Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1917-39
By Elizabeth White
To be published September 15th 2010
Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia
By Charlotte Henze
To be published August 15th 2010
Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia
By Tina Burrett
To be published June 30th 2010
Federalism and Local Politics in Russia
Edited by Cameron Ross, Adrian Campbell
To be published June 1st 2010
Globalization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment
By Jan Drahokoupil
To be published June 1st 2010
Local Politics and Democratization in Russia
By Cameron Ross
To be published June 1st 2010
Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Bernd Rechel
To be published June 1st 2010
Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the communist past
Edited by Lavinia Stan
To be published June 1st 2010
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote control
By Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova
To be published June 1st 2010
Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism
Edited by Roland Dannreuther, Luke March
To be published May 24th 2010