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1. Small-Town Russia

   Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities: A Portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000

   By Anne White

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger,...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Russia as a Great Power

   Dimensions of Security Under Putin

   Edited by Jakob Hedenskog, Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil Nygren, Ingmar Oldberg, Christer Pursiainen

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   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. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Russia's current security situation, addressing such questions as: What kind of player is Russia in...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Legacy of Soviet Dissent

   Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia

   By Robert Horvath

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   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. This book restores the dissidents to their rightful place in Russian history. Using a vast array of samizdat...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. State Building in Ukraine

   The Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003

   By Sarah Whitmore

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book examines the development of the Ukrainian parliament - the Verkhovna Rada - from before Ukraine's independence in 1991 to the present. It shows how the parliament transformed itself from a provincial republican Soviet to the national legislature of a sovereign state and from a nominal,...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Economic Sources of Social Order Development in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe

   By Richard Connolly

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Nearly twenty years after the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced divergent trajectories of political development. This book looks at why this is the case, based on the assumption that societies, or social orders, can be distinguished by the extent...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism

   Edited by Ulrike Ziemer, Sean P. Roberts

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   Following the demise of the USSR in 1991, and the ensuing collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, widespread population movements took place across Central and Eastern Europe. Whole nations disappeared and (re)-emerged and diasporic transnational ties and belonging have experienced a...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
7. Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution

   Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the Spectre of Velvet Revolution

   By Robert Horvath

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book examines the 'preventive counter-revolution,' a programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin's second term as president. Kremlin propagandists hailed this programme as a defence of national sovereignty against Western attempts to...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Limits of Russian Democratisation

   Emergency Powers and States of Emergency

   By Alexander Domrin

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   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 the use of such powers in Russian history, comparing the Russian situation with those that exist in other countries and discussing the...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. The EU-Russia Borderland

   New Contexts for Regional Cooperation

   Edited by Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia’s "modernisation" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia appears to have ‘limits to integration’. Today, much European political discourse again...

   Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Russian Transformations

    Challenging the Global Narrative

    Edited by Leo McCann

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    The transition of Russia to a 'developed market economy' has been slower, more contradictory and less predictable than expected. This book examines contemporary Russian socio-economic development, and explores the degree to which Russian experiences can be incorporated into current social science...

    Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge