basees routledge russian and east

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism (Hardcover)

David Lane outlines succinctly yet comprehensively the development and transformation of state socialism. While focussing on Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe he also engages in a discussion of the Chinese path. In response to the changing... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe The Baltic States from the Soviet Union to the European Union (Paperback)

The Baltic States are unique in being the only member-states of the EU to have fought to regain their sovereignty from the Soviet Union only then to cede it to Brussels in certain key areas. Similarly no member-states have had to struggle as hard as... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union 1917-1932 (Paperback)

The study of Soviet youth has long lagged behind the comprehensive research conducted on Western European youth culture. In an era that saw the emergence of youth movements of all sorts across Europe the Soviet Komsomol was the first state-sponsored... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic (Paperback)

This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture ranging across media forms disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Building Big Business in Russia: The Impact of Informal Corporate Governance Practices (Paperback)

This book examines the development of big business in Russia since the onset of market oriented reform in the early 1990s. It explains how privatized post-Soviet enterprises many of which made little sense as business units were transformed into... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Democratic Elections in Poland 1991-2007 (Paperback)

This book is a political history of democratic elections in Poland from the first fully competitive parliamentary elections in 1991 to the unexpected most recent election in 2007. Until now there has been no equivalent study covering similar... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: The Russian State and Russian Energy Companies 1992-2018 (Paperback)

The Russian State and Russian Energy Companies analyses the development of relations between the state and five major energy companies and how this shaped Russia s foreign policy in the post-Soviet region. The book argues that the development of... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Russian Society and the Orthodox Church: Religion in Russia After Communism (Hardcover)

Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church s social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It shows how Orthodox prelates clergy and laity have shaped Russians attitudes... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania (Hardcover)

Appearing on the world stage in 1918 Lithuania suffered numerous invasions border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941 mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Post-Soviet Civil Society: Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States (Paperback)

The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership while some regions in Russia lag far behind. Now for the... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (Paperback)

Social media are increasingly revolutionising the ways in which political communication works and their importance for engaging citizens in politics and public affairs is well understood by political actors. This book surveys current developments in... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity (Paperback)

This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia how it has been approached and produced and why memory and tradition in these particular forms have taken on particular... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Post-Communist Poland - Contested Pasts and Future Identities (Hardcover)

This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Putin s Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia (Hardcover)

President Vladimir Putin s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia s return to great power status but subsequent aggression against Ukraine large-scale corruption... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Nation Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post-Soviet Difference (Paperback)

Russia one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to inter-ethnic cohesion. The... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union: From Survival to Revival (1960s-1980s) (Hardcover)

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... more

Democracy Versus Modernization : A Dilemma for Russia and for the World

Vladislav Inozemtsev (Editor) Piotr Dutkiewicz (Editor) Hardcover Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies Series English-language edition Pub by Taylor & Francis more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Russia s Identity in International Relations: Images Perceptions Misperceptions (Hardcover)

Bringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West. It discusses the historical cultural and political... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe East European Diasporas Migration and Cosmopolitanism (Hardcover)

Following the demise of the USSR in 1991 and the ensuing collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe widespread population movements took place across Central and Eastern Europe. Whole nations disappeared and (re)-emerged and diasporic... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism : Criminal Justice Politics and the Public Sphere (Paperback)

Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and again during the Gorbachev and Yel tsin eras the issue of individual legal rights and freedoms occupied a central place in the reformist drive to modernize criminal justice. While in tsarist Russia... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party (Paperback)

This book based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources including the party archives provides a great deal of new information on the disintegration of the Soviet communist party in 1991 and the preceding years. It argues that... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Labour Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia Central Asia and Eastern Europe: Power Institutions and Mobile Actor (Paperback)

This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states flourishing informal economies legal uncertainty increased mobility and globalization where many people who are forced by the circumstances to be... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: The Decline of Regionalism in Putin s Russia (Paperback)

This book reassesses Putin s attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s focusing on regional responses to Putin s federal reforms. It explains the decline of regionalism after 2000 in... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Putin s Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia (Paperback)

President Vladimir Putin s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia s return to great power status but subsequent aggression against Ukraine large-scale corruption... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union 1953-64 (Paperback)

This book presents a new picture of the politics economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections the book... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner 1969-2003 (Hardcover)

Sergei Kovalyov is a central figure in the struggle for human rights in Russia. He was a leading Soviet biology academic and in the 1970s after becoming active in dissident circles was arrested by the KGB tried imprisoned and subjected to internal... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: Residential Childcare 1958-91 (Hardcover)

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... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia 1825-1917: Exiles Émigrés and the International Reception of Russian Radicalism (Paperbac

Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a place of exile often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities of autocratic and totalitarian Tsarist rule. This book examines how... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East European Studies: Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe: Beyond the Transition s Liberal Consensus (Hardcover)

This book argues that the recent political mobilizations in Eastern Europe have been underpinned by a class struggle between a more conservative and a more radical line of contention. The latter line the book contends is designed by and for... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Soviet Karelia: Politics Planning and Terror in Stalin s Russia 1920-1939 (Hardcover)

In 1920 Lenin authorised a plan to transform Karelia a Russian territory adjacent to Finland into a showcase Soviet autonomous region to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities policy and economic planning and to encourage other... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Political Parties in the Russian Regions (Hardcover)

Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 Russia s party system has suffered a difficult and turbulent infancy. Moscow based parties have had only very limited territorial penetration and fragmentation has been one of its most significant... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Cinema State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 1917-1989: Re-Visions (Hardcover)

This book presents a comprehensive re-examination of the cinemas of the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe during the communist era. It argues that since the end of communism in these countries film scholars are able to view these cinemas... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Communism Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland 1944-1950 (Paperback)

This book fills a significant gap in the study of the establishment of communist rule in Poland in the key period of 1944-1950. It shows that nationalism and nationality policy were fundamentally important in the consolidation of communist rule... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Khrushchev in the Kremlin: Policy and Government in the Soviet Union 1953-64 (Hardcover)

This book presents a new picture of the politics economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections the book... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and Sickle (Hardcover)

This book investigates the place of music in Soviet society during the eras of Lenin and Stalin. It examines the different strategies adopted by composers and musicians in their attempts to carve out careers in a rapidly evolving society discusses... more

Basees/Routledge Russian and East Europe Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina 1940-46 (Hardcover)

Covering the horrors that took place in Latvia from the beginning of the Second World War until 1947 this book focuses on the heart of the 20th century: Stalinist industrialization collectivization and political annihilation; Nazi expansionism and... more

Routledge Library Editions: Cold War Sec The Cold War and its Origins 1917-1960 (Paperback)

This book first published in 1961 is an analysis of the great struggle of the twentieth century the Cold War. It carefully examines the conflict s origins in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and follows the thread of antagonism between west and east... more

Routledge Library Editions: The Russian Civil War: War & Revolution in Asiatic Russia (Hardcover)

Part diary part journalistic dispatches this volume originally published in 1918 is a short history of the Caucasus campaign and connects the events that were taking place in the Middle East with the past history of Central Asia. Witnessing the... more