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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
New & Published Titles:
Federalism and Local Politics in Russia
This book examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia.
Many commentators have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult...
ISBN: 978-0-415-43702-8 | Published October 8th 2008 by Routledge.
more information about Federalism and Local Politics in RussiaThe Emancipation of the Serfs in Russia
Peace Arbitrators and the Development of Civil Society
In the wake of the disastrous Crimean War, the Russian autocracy completely renovated its most basic social, political and economic systems by emancipating some 23...
ISBN: 978-0-415-77639-4 | Published August 13th 2008 by Routledge.
more information about The Emancipation of the Serfs in RussiaGlobalization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe
The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment
This book examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in...
ISBN: 978-0-415-46603-5 | Published August 8th 2008 by Routledge.
more information about Globalization and the State in Central and Eastern EuropeNarrating Post/Communism
Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization
The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in...
ISBN: 978-0-415-46111-5 | Published May 19th 2008 by Routledge.
more information about Narrating Post/CommunismDemocratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia
This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society.
It describes the character and central organizing principles of Russian democratic civic life,...
ISBN: 978-0-415-44112-4 | Published May 15th 2008 by Routledge.
more information about Democratization and Gender in Contemporary RussiaReinventing Poland
Economic and Political Transformation and Evolving National Identity
The end of communism and accession to the European Union have had a huge impact on Poland. This book provides an overall assessment of the...ISBN: 978-0-415-45175-8 | Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.
more information about Reinventing PolandThe Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24
Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite
The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book...
ISBN: 978-0-415-43703-5 | Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.
more information about The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24Russian Policy towards China and Japan
The El'tsin and Putin Periods
Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an in-depth examination of Russia’s relations with China and Japan, the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For Russia...
ISBN: 978-0-415-30578-5 | Published December 21st 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Russian Policy towards China and JapanEnergy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union
Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's Missing Energy Policy, 1995-2006
Energy has become a major element to Russia's attempts, under Putin, to restore its influence over former Soviet territories and reaffirm itself as the dominant...
ISBN: 978-0-415-43779-0 | Published December 14th 2007 by Routledge.
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Soviet Karelia
Politics, Planning and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1920–1939
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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-31216-5 | Published December 14th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Soviet KareliaRussian Legal Culture Before and After Communism
Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere
Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the Gorbachev and Yel’tsin eras, the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied...
ISBN: 978-0-415-31770-2 | Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge.
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Peopling the Russian Periphery
Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History
Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of...
ISBN: 978-0-415-41880-5 | Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Peopling the Russian PeripheryPolitical and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia
This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era. The book portrays and critically examines the conceptual and...
ISBN: 978-0-415-39196-2 | Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist RussiaThe 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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-43439-3 | Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about The Demise of the Soviet Communist PartyDemocracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe
In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is...
ISBN: 978-0-415-42822-4 | Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern EuropeThe 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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-34135-6 | Published July 20th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about The New Right in the New EuropeChechnya - Russia's 'War on Terror'
The Russo-Chechen conflict has been the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War. It continues to drag on, despite the fact that it...
ISBN: 978-0-415-38064-5 | Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Chechnya - Russia's 'War on Terror'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...ISBN: 978-0-415-32228-7 | Published March 27th 2007 by Routledge.
more information about Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial RegionThe 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...
ISBN: 978-0-415-40731-1 | Published February 27th 2007 by Routledge.
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Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40
From Red Square to the Left Bank
Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet...
ISBN: 978-0-415-36005-0 | Published October 16th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia
In the years since 1989, the societies of Russia and Eastern Europe have undergone a remarkable transformation from socialism to democracy and free market capitalism....
ISBN: 978-0-415-39739-1 | Published August 16th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet RussiaLate Stalinist Russia
Society Between Reconstruction and Reinvention
The late Stalinist period, long neglected by researchers more interested in the high-profile events of the 1930s, has recently become the focus of much new...
ISBN: 978-0-415-37476-7 | Published July 25th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about Late Stalinist RussiaRussian Constitutionalism
Historical and Contemporary Development
Medushevsky examines constitutionalism in Russia from Tsarist times to the present. He traces the different attitudes to constitutionalism in political thought, and in practice, at...
ISBN: 978-0-415-36368-6 | Published May 23rd 2006 by Routledge.
more information about Russian ConstitutionalismNews Media and Power in Russia
The end of communist rule in the Soviet Union brought with it a brave new world of media and commerce. Formerly state-owned enterprises were transformed,...
ISBN: 978-0-415-34515-6 | Published May 4th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about News Media and Power in RussiaThe 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 the use...
ISBN: 978-0-415-36374-7 | Published January 17th 2006 by Routledge.
more information about The Limits of Russian DemocratisationThe 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....
ISBN: 978-0-415-36805-6 | Published December 21st 2005 by Routledge.
more information about The Collapse of Communist Power in PolandThe Dilemmas of De-Stalinization
Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era
The Khrushchev era is increasingly seen as a period in its own right, and not just as 'post-Stalinism' or a forerunner of subsequent 'thaws' and...ISBN: 978-0-415-34514-9 | Published December 19th 2005 by Routledge.
more information about The Dilemmas of De-StalinizationKatyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940
Truth, Justice and Memory
The Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and in other camps in 1940 was one of the most notorious incidents of the...
ISBN: 978-0-415-33873-8 | Published August 24th 2005 by Routledge.
more information about Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet Russia
This book embraces the political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Soviet Russia. Providing a useful perspective of Putin’s Russia, and with a strong historical...
ISBN: 978-0-415-33186-9 | Published July 19th 2005 by Routledge.
more information about Conscience, Dissent and Reform in Soviet RussiaRussia 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....
ISBN: 978-0-415-35996-2 | Published May 13th 2005 by Routledge.
more information about Russia as a Great PowerThe 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....
ISBN: 978-0-415-33320-7 | Published February 1st 2005 by Routledge.
more information about The Legacy of Soviet DissentRussian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001
Screening the Word
Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book examines the importance of film adaptations of literature in...ISBN: 978-0-415-30667-6 | Published December 17th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe
The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98
This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge...ISBN: 978-0-415-35557-5 | Published November 25th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern EuropeRussian Society and the Orthodox Church
Religion in Russia after Communism
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-32053-5 | Published September 23rd 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Russian Society and the Orthodox ChurchRussian Literary Culture in the Camera Age
The Word as Image
This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth...ISBN: 978-0-415-30668-3 | Published September 9th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Russian Literary Culture in the Camera AgeBetween Stalin and Hitler
Class War and Race War on the Dvina, 1940-46
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-33193-7 | Published September 2nd 2004 by Routledge.
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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...ISBN: 978-0-415-33874-5 | Published August 12th 2004 by Routledge.
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Defending Human Rights in Russia
Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003
Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and, in the 1970s...ISBN: 978-0-415-32369-7 | Published June 24th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Defending Human Rights in RussiaSoviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin
The Baton and Sickle
This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. It examines the different strategies adopted by...ISBN: 978-0-415-30219-7 | Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and StalinState 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...ISBN: 978-0-415-33195-1 | Published May 20th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about State Building in UkraineRussian Transformations
Challenging the Global Narrative
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...ISBN: 978-0-415-32371-0 | Published April 29th 2004 by Routledge.
more information about Russian TransformationsDostoevsky and The Idea of Russianness
A New Perspective on Unity and Brotherhood
This book examines Dostoevsky's interest in, and engagement with, "Slavophilism" - a Russian mid-nineteenth century movement of conservative nationalist thought. It explores Dostoevsky's views,...ISBN: 978-0-415-30489-4 | Published September 11th 2003 by Routledge.
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Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe
This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation...ISBN: 978-0-415-30669-0 | Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge.
more information about Repression and Resistance in Communist EuropePolitical Elites and the New Russia
The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes
Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local...ISBN: 978-0-415-30903-5 | Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge.
more information about Political Elites and the New RussiaLocal Communities and Post-Communist Transformation
Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
Post-communist transformation in the former Soviet bloc has had a profound effect, not just in the political and economic sphere, but on all aspects of...ISBN: 978-0-415-29718-9 | Published May 22nd 2003 by Routledge.
more information about Local Communities and Post-Communist TransformationPolitical Parties in the Russian Regions
Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's party system has suffered a difficult and turbulent infancy. Moscow based parties have had only...ISBN: 978-0-415-30218-0 | Published May 1st 2003 by Routledge.
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Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000
This book analyses Ukraine's relations with each of its neighbours in the 1990s. It examines the degree to which these relations fitted into Ukraine's broad...ISBN: 978-0-7007-1740-8 | Published October 17th 2002 by Routledge.
more information about Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000Series 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:
Local Politics and Democratization in Russia
By Cameron Ross
October 23rd 2008
Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the communist past
Edited by Lavinia Stan
October 27th 2008
The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals
Edited by Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova
November 11th 2008
Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Bernd Rechel
December 17th 2008
Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia
By Charles Walker
February 20th 2009
Communism and Nationalism in Poland 1944-1950
By Michael Fleming
March 20th 2009
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control
By Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova
March 24th 2009
The Making of Modern Lithuania
By Tomas Balkelis
April 20th 2009
Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1956-64
Edited by Jeremy Smith, Melanie Ilic
April 30th 2009
Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev
Edited by Melanie Ilic, Jeremy Smith
April 30th 2009
The Baltic States: From Soviet Union to European Union
By Richard Mole
April 30th 2009
Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Russia
By Sinikukka Saari
June 30th 2009
Building Big Business in Russia: The Impact of Informal Corporate Governance Practices
By Yuko Adachi
September 20th 2009
The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia: Old Intellectuals in the New Russia
By Inna Kotchetkova
October 31st 2009
Critical Theory in Russia and the West
Edited by Alastair Renfrew, Galin Tihanov
January 1st 2010
Land Ownership in Russia: Before and After Communism
By LOUIS SKYNER
January 1st 2010
Bolshevising the Soviet Communist Party
By Younhee Kang
January 30th 2010