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1. Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991

   Soviet Foreign Policy, Turkey and Communism

   By Bülent Gökay

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   This is an impressive work that traces the relationship between the Soviet Union and Turkey on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and the Turkish Communist Party on the other, from the consolidation of the communist regime in Moscow until its fall. The book considers how '...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. The USA in the Making of the USSR

   The Washington Conference 1921-22 and 'Uninvited Russia'

   By Paul Dukes

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   The USA's contribution to the making of the USSR was accidental. In the belief that the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic could not survive, American statesmen strove to keep the former Tsarist empire intact for a non-communist successor regime in the face of attempts by other powers to...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904-05

   Secret Operations on Land and at Sea

   By Evgeny Sergeev

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   Examining Russian military intelligence in the war with Japan of 1904-05, this book, based on newly-accessible documents from the tsarist era military, naval and diplomatic archives, gives an overview of the origins, structure and performance of Russian military intelligence in the Far East at the...

   Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Soviet Union - Federation or Empire?

   By Tania Raffass

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation, but really an empire, liable to break up when individual federal units, which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units, sought independence. This book questions this interpretation, revisiting the theory of federation, and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule

   By Alex Marshall

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the region. However,...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917

   By Alex Marshall

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   This new book examines the role of the Tsarist General Staff in studying and administering Russia’s Asian borderlands. It considers the nature of the Imperial Russian state, the institutional characteristics of the General Staff, and Russia’s relationship with Asia. During the nineteenth century,...

   Published February 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union

   By Rina Lapidus

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overview of each author’s...

   Published September 28th 2011 by Routledge
8. Eastern Christianity and the Cold War, 1945-91

   Edited by Lucian Leustean

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   Despite widespread persecution, Orthodox churches not only survived the Cold War period but levels of religiosity in Orthodox countries remained significant. This book examines the often surprising relations between Orthodox churches and political regimes. It provides a comprehensive overview of...

   Published May 16th 2011 by Routledge
9. Reassessing Cold War Europe

   Edited by Sari Autio-Sarasmo, Katalin Miklóssy

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

   This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91. Contrary to popular belief, it shows that relations between East and West were based not only on confrontation and mutual distrust, but also on collaboration. The authors reveal that - despite opposing...

   Published October 3rd 2010 by Routledge
10. Popular Religion in Russia

    'Double Belief' and the Making of an Academic Myth

    By Stella Rock

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

    This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by...

    Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge