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Bolshevising the Soviet Communist Party
By Younhee Kang
In the early years of the Soviet Union, the nature of the communist party was not yet fixed. The key features of the communist regime all emerged during the key period of the First Five Year plan, 1928-32. This book, based on extensive original research and making full use of the party archives,...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-36370-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Russian Foreign Policy from El'tsin to Putin
By Peter J.S. Duncan
This book examines how changes in Russian politics, society and economy have influenced post-Soviet Russian foreign policy from the mid-1990s to the present. It considers important domestic changes within Russia such as the growth of Russian nationalism, the prevalence of corruption, the rise of...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-34321-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Baltic States: From Soviet Union to European Union
By Richard Mole
The Baltic States provides an informative and interesting overview of developments in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as they made the transition from Soviet domination to membership of the European Union. Uniquely analyzing the entire transition, this book: focuses on the concepts of identity,...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-39497-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Economic Elites and Russian-Ukraine Relations
By Rosaria Puglisi
This book discusses how in the course of the 1990s in both Russia and Ukraine, political power came to be exercised by economic élites who pursued a policy of pragmatism in international relations. Besides showing how this in turn affected relations between the two countries, the book also casts...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-32620-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The EU-Russia Borderland
Edited by Heikki Eskilinen, Ilkka Liikanen, James W. Scott
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...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-55247-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Edited by Michael Rasell, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova
There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-61096-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Poland's Troubled Transition, 1989-2008
By Jacqueline Hayden
This book examines developments in Poland from 1989 to the present. Based on extensive original research, including the author’s interviews with many of the leading participants, the book discusses the different visions for a post-communist Poland held by different parties and individuals, and...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-49451-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia
By J. Paul Goode
This book reassesses the process whereby after 2000 Putin reversed the process by which in the 1990s power had shifted from Moscow to the regions. It focuses on the dynamics of regional boundaries: juridical boundaries, which defined a region's territorial extent and thereby its resources;...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-60807-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States
By Olena Nikolayenko
The political outlook of young people in the countries of the former Soviet Union is crucial to their countries’ future political development. This particularly relevant now as the first generation without firsthand experience of communism at first hand is approaching adulthood. Based on extensive...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-59604-6 | Hardback (Routledge)