BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
About the Book Series
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.
Series editors:
Birgit Beumers, Aberystwyth University, UK / Passau University, Germany
(Visual studies, media and communication: [email protected])
Volodymyr Kulikov, University College London, UK
(Business and economic history: [email protected])
Editorial Advisory Board:
Samuel Foster, University of East Anglia, UK
(SE-Europe: [email protected])
Alun Thomas, University of Staffordshire, UK
(Central Asia and early Soviet: [email protected])
Judith Pallot, University of Oxford, UK
(Anthropology, geography and sociology: [email protected])
Andrew Wilson, University College London, UK
(Ukrainian Studies and politics: [email protected])
Natalia Rulyova, Birmingham,UK
(Russophone literature, translation studies, post-Soviet media culture and genre studies: [email protected])
Please contact the Editor, Louise Ingham, (Routledge) at [email protected], or the relevant Series Editor / Editorial Advistory Board member if you wish to submit a new proposal.
The Empire of Meaning: Essays on Russia’s State Ideology and Civilizational Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Marlene Laruelle
July 31, 2026
This book examines the ideological foundations of post-2022 Russia, arguing that the Putin regime is not merely defined by personalist rule, authoritarian tactics, or foreign policy decisions. Instead, it is underpinned by a carefully constructed framework of ideas, symbols, and narratives that ...
Modern Russian Cinema as a Battleground in Russia's Information War
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Rojavin, Helen Haft
December 26, 2025
This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a variety of battlefields, including social media, online news, and television. It outlines how Russian cinema has been instrumentalized, both by the Kremlin's allies and its ...
The Political Economy of Hungarian Authoritarian Populism: Capitalists without the Right Kind of Capital
1st Edition
By Samuel Rogers
December 26, 2025
This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hungary. It argues these capitalist relations are crucial to understanding the economic aspects of this ideology, which has developed in the country since...
The Russian Revolution of 1917 - Memory and Legacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol S. Leonard, Daniel Orlovsky, Jurej Petrov
December 26, 2025
The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in...
Political Parties and Religion in Post-Communist Poland
1st Edition
By Aleks Szczerbiak
November 28, 2025
This book examines the role of religion and the Catholic Church in post-communist Polish politics. It outlines the special circumstances of Poland, a country with very high levels of religiosity, where the Catholic Church played a crucial role in the process that led to the collapse of communism in...
Bordering and Mobilities in Ukraine: Inconvenient People in the Time of War
1st Edition
By Irina Kuznetsova, Oksana Mikheieva
October 21, 2025
This book analyses how war and bordering impact daily life and mobility and immobility tactics. It brings to light the memories of people who were displaced from Ukraine’s eastern regions because of Russian aggression against Ukraine started in 2014. Based on extensive in-depth research including ...
The Development Trajectory of Communism in Poland: The Life of Władysław Bieńkowski, Communist Leader and Socialist Thinker
1st Edition
By Bartłomiej Kapica
June 30, 2025
Charting the life and writings of Władysław Bieńkowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right-hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Władysław Gomułka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Poland throughout the period of communist rule. ...
Independent Music in Russia: Escapism, Patriotism and Protest (2008-2022)
1st Edition
By Marco Biasioli
June 27, 2025
This book explores Russian independent music – nezavisimaia muzyka – in a time of profound transformations in Russian society, looking especially at the mutual influence between music and the socio-political context in which it was created. Contrary to what is commonly believed, the book argues ...
Religious Life in the Late Soviet Union: From Survival to Revival (1960s-1980s)
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Martin, Nadezhda Beliakova
December 18, 2024
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...
The Economics of Growth in Russia: Overcoming the Poverty Trap
1st Edition
By Ararat L. Osipian
October 09, 2024
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Elena Korosteleva, Irina Petrova, Anastasiia Kudlenko
October 07, 2024
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Jasmin Dall'Agnola, Allyson Edwards, Marnie Howlett
August 26, 2024
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 ...