Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia

   Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power

   By Bill Bowring

   Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia: Landmarks in the destiny of a great power brings into sharp focus several key episodes in Russia’s vividly ideological engagement with law and rights. Drawing on 30 years of experience of consultancy and teaching in many regions of Russia and on library research...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Memory, Conflict and New Media

   Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

   Edited by Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva

   Series: Media, War and Security

   This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states – where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities,...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Culture of Europe

   Edited by Peter I. Barta

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   The end of communism in Europe has tended to be discussed mainly in the context of political science and history. This book, in contrast, assesses the cultural consequences for Europe of the disappearance of the Soviet bloc. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the book examines the new...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
4. The Soviet Union under Gorbachev (Routledge Revivals)

   Prospects for Reform

   By David A. Dyker

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Gorbachev’s accession to General Secretary promised great changes to the Soviet Union and its relationship with the rest of the world. This book, first published in 1987, discusses the problems faced by Gorbachev when he entered office and how he planned to tackle them. Gorbachev was a figure of...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia

   Edited by Louise Shelley, Erik R. Scott, Anthony Latta

   Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

   Georgia is one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden nations of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, Georgians played a major role in organized crime groups and the shadow economy operating throughout the Soviet Union, and in the post-Soviet period, Georgia continues to be important source...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Russia and the Cult of State Security

   The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin

   By Julie Fedor

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Politics, Identity and Education in Central Asia

   Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

   Edited by Pınar Akçalı, Cennet Engin-Demir

   Series: Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies

   Focusing on the areas of politics, identity and education, this book looks at some of the most pressing and challenging issues that Kyrgyzstan faces in the post-Soviet era. It argues that Kyrgyzstan is challenged with oscillations between the old and the new on the one hand, and domestic and...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
8. Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience

   Untying the Kurillian Knot

   Edited by Kimie Hara, Geoffrey Jukes

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This volume is the fruit of an international collaborative study, which considers the Åland islands settlement in northern Europe as a resolution model for the major Asia-Pacific regional conflicts that derived from the post-World War II disposition of Japan, with particular focus on the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Democratic Revolution in Ukraine

   From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution

   Edited by Taras Kuzio

   In 2000 a beheaded journalist was found in a remote forest near Kyiv. The corpse led to a scandal when it was revealed that it was that of a journalist critical of the authorities. The President was heard on tapes, made covertly in his office, ordering violence to be undertaken against the...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia

    By Liubov Denisova

    Edited by Irina Mukhina

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge