Russian & Soviet Politics Products

By Alfrid K. Bustanov

Orientalism – the idea that the standpoint of Western writers on the East greatly affected what they wrote about the East, the "Other" – applied also in Russia and the Soviet Union, where the study of the many exotic peoples incorporated into the Russian Empire, often in quite late imperial times,…

Paperback – 2017-10-13
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Central Asian Studies

Edited by Petre Petrov, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so…

Paperback – 2017-10-13
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Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

Edited by Susanne Oxenstierna

During the early 2000s the market liberalization reforms to the Russian economy, begun in the 1990s, were consolidated. But since the mid 2000s economic policy has moved into a new phase, characterized by more state intervention with less efficiency and more structural problems. Corruption, weak…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Edited by Katalin Miklóssy, Melanie Ilic

This book explores how the concept of "competition", which is usually associated with market economies, operated under state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where the socialist system, based on command economic planning and state-centred control over society, was supposed to…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

By J. L. Black

The term "tandem" was used to describe the Putin-Medvedev combination which ruled Russia from 2008 to 2012, when Medvedev was president and Putin prime minister. Many people saw Putin as the real wielder of power, with Medvedev as his puppet. Others, however, saw Medvedev as a visionary, someone…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

By Andrew Foxall

While the collapse of communism in Russia was relatively peaceful, ethnic relations have been deteriorating since then. This deterioration poses a threat to the functioning of the Russian state and is a major obstacle to its future development. Analysing ethnic relations in the North Caucasus, this…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By Olga Gurova

This book explores how clothing consumption has changed in Russia in the past 20 years as capitalism has grown in a postsocialist state, bringing with it a "consumer revolution." It shows how there has been and continues to be a massive change in the fashion retail market and how ideal…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz, Richard Sakwa

As Eurasia and the adjacent territories become more important to the world, there is increasing interest from international powers, accompanied by attempts to give institutional form to traditional economic and security links within the region. This book includes a range of substantive work from…

Paperback – 2017-10-12
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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

By Kelly Hignett, Melanie Ilic, Dalia Leinarte, Corina Snitar

Based on extensive original research, including studies of autobiographies and biographies, reminiscences and memoirs, archived oral history data and interviews conducted by the authors, this book provides a rich picture of how women experienced repression in the former Soviet bloc. Although…

Hardback – 2017-10-10
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Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

Edited by Markku Kivinen, Terry Cox

Russia’s post-Soviet modernisation is complex and subject to changing interpretations among Russian political leaders and observers of Russia. This has created serious problems for understanding Russia and the changes it is currently undergoing. With this in mind, a new Finnish Centre of Excellence…

Hardback – 2017-10-02
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Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

By Anton Shekhovtsov

The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has been a neglected but critically important trend: the growing links between Russian actors and Western far right activists, publicists,…

Paperback – 2017-09-28
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Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

By Michael Fredholm

This book describes and analyzes the convergence of transnational organized crime and jihadist terrorism that has taken place within Russian-speaking social networks in Western Europe. Studies have shown that while under certain circumstances links between criminal organizations and terrorist…

Hardback – 2017-09-14
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Contemporary Terrorism Studies