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1. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45

   A Documentary Reader

   By Alexander Hill

   Series: Soviet (Russian) Study of War

   This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides...

   Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
2. Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia

   By Sally Cummings

   Series: Routledge Advances in Central Asian Studies

   Approaching Central Asia from the perspective of geopolitics, transition, oil and stability, the authors provide a very broad and diverse analysis of the region, examining domestic and international developments since 1991. The book both provides an introduction to the region and presents advanced...

   Published August 26th 2010 by Routledge
3. The Church of the East

   A Concise History

   By Wilhelm Baum, Dietmar W. Winkler

   Series: Central Asian Studies

   The Church of the East is currently the only complete history in English of the East Syriac Church of the East. It covers the periods of the Sassanians, Arabs, Mongols, Ottomans, the 20th century, and informs about the Syriac, Iranian and Chinese literature of this unique and almost forgotten part...

   Published August 26th 2010 by Routledge
4. The Czech Republic and the European Union

   By Dan Marek, Michael Baun

   Series: Europe and the Nation State

   This book examines the relationship between the Czech Republic and the European Union (EU). The authors examine the Czech Republic’s road to EU membership in 2004 and assess how EU accession has affected or changed the Czech Republic, including its domestic politics, governing institutions and...

   Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
5. 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 August 24th 2010 by Routledge
6. Russia and Iran in the Great Game

   Travelogues and Orientalism

   By Elena Andreeva

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern History

   This book examines the Russian explorers and officials in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who came into contact with Iran as a part of the Great Game. It demonstrates the development of Russia's own form of Orientalism, a phenomenon that has previously been thought to be exclusive to the...

   Published August 17th 2010 by Routledge
7. Environmental Policies for Air Pollution and Climate Change in the New Europe

   By Caterina De Lucia

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   The interlinked issues of air pollution and energy policies in an enlarged Europe are currently subjects of major interest in economic, environmental, geography and regional sciences. This interest is understandable given the considerable consequences on human health and on climate change issues at...

   Published August 15th 2010 by Routledge
8. Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus

   Post-Soviet Disorder

   Edited by Moshe Gammer

   Series: Central Asian Studies

   With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front of the world's attention, this volume presents and discusses some of the complexities and problems arising in the region such as...

   Published August 14th 2010 by Routledge
9. 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 August 12th 2010 by Routledge
10. C.G. Jung and Nikolai Berdyaev: Individuation and the Person

    A Critical Comparison

    By Georg Nicolaus

    This book explores C.G. Jung's psychology through the perspective of the existential philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, drawing striking parallels between Jung's theory of individuation and Berdyaev's understanding of the person. Placing Jung and Berdyaev firmly within the context of secular humanism,...

    Published July 20th 2010 by Routledge