New and Published Books
1-10 of 86 results in BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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Small-Town Russia
Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities: A Portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000
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
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Russia as a Great Power
Dimensions of Security Under Putin
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
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The Legacy of Soviet Dissent
Dissidents, Democratisation and Radical Nationalism in Russia
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
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State Building in Ukraine
The Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003
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
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The Economic Sources of Social Order Development in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
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
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East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism
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
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Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution
Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the Spectre of Velvet Revolution
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
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The Limits of Russian Democratisation
Emergency Powers and States of Emergency
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
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The EU-Russia Borderland
New Contexts for Regional Cooperation
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
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Russian Transformations
Challenging the Global Narrative
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
Forthcoming Books
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Civil Society in Putin's Russia
To Be Published March 3rd 2013 -
Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia
To Be Published March 10th 2013 -
Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–64
To Be Published March 10th 2013 -
The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932
To Be Published March 10th 2013 -
Post-Communist Poland – Contested Pasts and Future Identities
To Be Published March 26th 2013 -
Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev: The Sovnarkhoz Reform
To Be Published June 3rd 2013 -
Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era
To Be Published June 10th 2013 -
The Transition to Democracy in Hungary: Árpád Göncz and the Post-Communist Hungarian Presidency
To Be Published June 17th 2013 -
Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
To Be Published July 30th 2013 -
Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe
To Be Published August 30th 2013


