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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 March 21st 2013 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia

   By Tina Burrett

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

   As a new president takes power in Russia, this book provides an analysis of the changing relationship between control of Russian television media and presidential power during the tenure of President Vladimir Putin. It argues that the conflicts within Russia’s political and economic elites, and...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Khrushchev in the Kremlin

   Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–64

   Edited by Jeremy Smith, Melanie Ilic

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

   This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
5. Civil Society in Putin's Russia

   By Elena Chebankova

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

   Unlike other books on civil society in Russia which argue that Russia’s civil society is relatively weak, and that democratisation in Russia went into reverse following Vladimir Putin’s coming to power, this book contends that civil society in Russia is developing in a distinctive way. It shows...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932

   By Matthias Neumann

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

   The study of Soviet youth has long lagged behind the comprehensive research conducted on Western European youth culture. In an era that saw the emergence of youth movements of all sorts across Europe, the Soviet Komsomol was the first state-sponsored youth organization, in the first communist...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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