Central Asian, Russian & East European Studies

By Veronika Stoyanova

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 subaltern groups whose anti-systemic programme calls for…

Hardback – 2018-03-21
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By Voicu Ion Sucala

This book puts forward a new perspective on the planned economies of communist Eastern Europe, demonstrating in detail how economic practice in such countries was shaped by the interplay among planners, managers and Party apparatchiks. Based on extensive original research, including interviews with…

Hardback – 2018-03-20
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By Aleks Szczerbiak

Poland is a particularly interesting case of truth revelation and transitional justice in a post-communist country. This is because of the radical change of trajectory in its approach to dealing with the communist past, and the profound effect this had on Polish politics. The approach moved from '…

Hardback – 2018-02-08
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By J. Paul Goode

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 terms of the dynamics of regional boundaries,…

Paperback – 2018-01-22
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Edited by Timothy K. Blauvelt, Jeremy Smith

This book explores events in Georgia in the years following Stalin’s death in March 1953, especially the demonstrations of March 1956 and their brutal suppression, in order to illuminate the tensions in Georgia between veneration of the memory of Stalin, a Georgian, together with the associated…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

By Valerie Pacer

Although the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev is often seen as a continuation of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, with the same policies applied in the same way, this book disagrees, arguing that Medvedev’s foreign policy was significantly different from Putin’s. The book considers especially the…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Edited by Vinayak Bharne, Trudi Sandmeier

The act of identifying, protecting, restoring, and reusing buildings, districts, and built landscapes of historic and cultural significance is, at its best, a reflective and consequential process of urban and socio-economic reform. It has the potential to reconcile conflicting memories, meanings,…

Hardback – 2019-03-01
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Edited by Semion Goldin, Mia Spiro, Scott Ury

This collection examines various aspects of Jewish migration within, from and to eastern Europe between 1880 and the present. It focuses on not only the wide variety of factors that often influenced the fateful decision to immigrate, but also the personal experience of migration and the critical…

Hardback – 2019-02-26
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By Tetyana Malyarenko, Stefan Wolff

What are the causes and consequences of the crisis in Ukraine, and what has been the nature of local, national, and external actors’ involvement in it? These are the questions that the authors examine in this comprehensive analysis of the situation in Ukraine. The crisis evolved from peaceful…

Hardback – 2018-12-27
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