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1. Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union

   Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's Missing Energy Policy, 1995-2006

   By Margarita M. Balmaceda

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

   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 regional power. This book investigates how Russia has manipulated the energy of its neighbours on Russian energy supplies to achieve its...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism

   Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere

   By Frances Nethercott

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

   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 a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia the gains of legal scholars and activists in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party

   By Atsushi Ogushi

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

   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 of the Soviet communist party, in 1991 and the preceding years. It argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the party was...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Baltic States from the Soviet Union to the European Union

   Identity, Discourse and Power in the Post-Communist Transition of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

   By Richard Mole

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

   The Baltic States are unique in being the only member-states of the EU to have fought to regain their sovereignty from the Soviet Union, only then to cede it to Brussels in certain key areas. Similarly, no member-states have had to struggle as hard as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to preserve their...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia

   Shocking Chic

   Edited by Helena Goscilo, Vlad Strukov

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

   This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book demonstrates how the process of ‘celebrification’ in...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950

   By Michael Fleming

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

   This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944–1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally important in the consolidation of communist rule, acting as a crucial nexus through which different...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007

   By Frances Millard

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

   This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected, most recent election in 2007. Until now, there has been no equivalent study covering similar developments in this, or any other, post-communist...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. Building Big Business in Russia

   The Impact of Informal Corporate Governance Practices

   By Yuko Adachi

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

   This book examines the development of big business in Russia since the onset of market oriented reform in the early 1990s. It explains how privatized post-Soviet enterprises, many of which made little sense as business units, were transformed into functional firms able to operate in the environment...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region

   The Donbas in Transition

   Edited by Adam Swain

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

   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 shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. The European Union and its Eastern Neighbours

    Towards a more ambitious partnership?

    By Elena Korosteleva

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

    This book explores the EU’s relations with its eastern neighbours. Based on extensive original research – including surveys, focus-groups, a study of school essays and in-depth interviews with key people in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia and in Brussels – it assesses why the EU’s initiatives...

    Published February 19th 2012 by Routledge