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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies


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This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research-level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects.

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Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union From Survival to Revival (1960s-1980s)

Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union: From Survival to Revival (1960s-1980s)

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Barbara Martin, Nadezhda Beliakova
August 18, 2023

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Based on a broad range of new sources on the daily life of religious communities, including material from regional archives and oral history, it shows...

Business Culture in Putin's Russia

Business Culture in Putin's Russia

1st Edition

By John Kennedy
May 31, 2023

This book examines how Russia’s entrepreneurs operate in a business environment beset with risk and uncertainty. The challenges they may encounter include an unreliable judicial system, insecure property rights, arbitrary interference from officials, as well as corruption, harassment, suspicion and...

The Donbas Conflict in Ukraine Elites, Protest, and Partition

The Donbas Conflict in Ukraine: Elites, Protest, and Partition

1st Edition

By Daria Platonova
May 31, 2023

This book examines why, when the conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014, fighting broke out in the Donets’k region, whereas it did not in Kharkiv city, despite the city, like the Donets’k region, being geographically proximate to Russia and similar in ethnic and linguistic make up. Based on ...

The Economics of Growth in Russia Overcoming the Poverty Trap

The Economics of Growth in Russia: Overcoming the Poverty Trap

1st Edition

By Ararat L. Osipian
May 17, 2023

This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s, linked directly to the exhausting and ill-planned transition from the planned economy to the market economy, resulted in Russia ...

Belarus in the Twenty-First Century Between Dictatorship and Democracy

Belarus in the Twenty-First Century: Between Dictatorship and Democracy

1st Edition

Edited By Elena Korosteleva, Irina Petrova, Anastasiia Kudlenko
May 12, 2023

This book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores how there has been an upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime, aiming to retain the Soviet legacy, reluctant to reform, presiding over worsening ...

Researching in the Former Soviet Union Stories from the Field

Researching in the Former Soviet Union: Stories from the Field

1st Edition

Edited By Jasmin Dall'Agnola, Allyson Edwards, Marnie Howlett
December 09, 2022

Written for early-career scholars still in the planning stages of their research, this book explores some of the challenges researchers face when conducting fieldwork in the former Soviet region. It addresses key questions, including: What difficulties do scholars, especially females, encounter ...

Russia's Regional Museums Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society

Russia's Regional Museums: Representing and Misrepresenting Knowledge about Nature, History and Society

1st Edition

By Sofia Gavrilova
September 20, 2022

This book presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museums—kraevedschskyi museums—in Russia’s regions. It outlines how numerous such museums are, how long they have existed, what they display, and how this has changed, or not, from Soviet times up to ...

Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union Residential Childcare, 1958–91

Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: Residential Childcare, 1958–91

1st Edition

By Mirjam Galley
August 01, 2022

This book examines, through a detailed study of Soviet residential childcare homes and boarding schools, the much wider issues of Soviet policies towards deviance, social norms, repression, and social control. It reveals how through targeting children whose parents could not or did not take care of...

Translating Great Russian Literature The Penguin Russian Classics

Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics

1st Edition

By Cathy McAteer
August 01, 2022

Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of ...

From German Königsberg to Soviet Kaliningrad Appropriating Place and Constructing Identity

From German Königsberg to Soviet Kaliningrad: Appropriating Place and Constructing Identity

1st Edition

By Jamie Freeman
May 30, 2022

This book explores how the Soviet Union, after capturing and annexing the German East Prussian city of Königsberg in 1945 and renaming it Kaliningrad, worked to transform the city into a model of Soviet modernity. It examines how the Soviets expelled all the remaining German people, repopulated the...

Governing the Soviet Union's National Republics The Second Secretaries of the Communist Party

Governing the Soviet Union's National Republics: The Second Secretaries of the Communist Party

1st Edition

By Saulius Grybkauskas
May 30, 2022

Second Secretary of the Central Committee of a Soviet republic does not sound a very important position, but as this book shows it was an extremely important role, one that helped hold the Soviet Union together and helped to keep it going for so long. The key was that Second Secretaries were both ...

Putin's Fascists Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia

Putin's Fascists: Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia

1st Edition

By Robert Horvath
May 30, 2022

The Putin regime and its propagandists have long claimed to be fighting the heirs of Nazi Germany. From its crackdown on domestic dissent to its aggression on the international stage, the Kremlin has regularly smeared its adversaries as fascists and fascist collaborators. Russia's invasion of ...

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