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.
Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union: Russia's Power, Oligarchs' Profits and Ukraine's Missing Energy Policy, 1995-2006
1st Edition
By Margarita M. Balmaceda
September 18, 2012
Energy has become a major element to Russia's attempts, under Putin, to restore its influence over former Soviet territories and reaffirm itself as the dominant regional power. This book investigates how Russia has manipulated the energy of its neighbours on Russian energy supplies to achieve its ...
The Limits of Russian Democratisation: Emergency Powers and States of Emergency
1st Edition
By Alexander Domrin
September 18, 2012
Written by an established scholar in the field, this text examines the nature of emergency powers and their use in the Russian constitution. It explores the use of such powers in Russian history, comparing the Russian situation with those that exist in other countries and discussing the ...
Russian Transformations: Challenging the Global Narrative
1st Edition
Edited
By Leo McCann
September 10, 2012
The transition of Russia to a 'developed market economy' has been slower, more contradictory and less predictable than expected. This book examines contemporary Russian socio-economic development, and explores the degree to which Russian experiences can be incorporated into current social science ...
Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism: Criminal Justice, Politics and the Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Frances Nethercott
June 13, 2012
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 the gains of legal scholars and activists in ...
The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party
1st Edition
By Atsushi Ogushi
June 13, 2012
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, contrary to prevailing views, the party was ...
Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic
1st Edition
Edited
By Helena Goscilo, Vlad Strukov
April 10, 2012
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 demonstrates how the process of ‘celebrification’ in ...
Communism, Nationalism and Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950
1st Edition
By Michael Fleming
March 29, 2012
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, acting as a crucial nexus through which different ...
Democratic Elections in Poland, 1991-2007
1st Edition
By Frances Millard
March 28, 2012
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 developments in this, or any other, post-communist ...
Building Big Business in Russia: The Impact of Informal Corporate Governance Practices
1st Edition
By Yuko Adachi
March 26, 2012
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 functional firms able to operate in the environment...
Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region: The Donbas in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Swain
March 21, 2012
This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed ...
Promoting Democracy and Human Rights in Russia
1st Edition
By Sinikukka Saari
October 05, 2011
European regional organisations have spent significant amount of time, energy and money in supporting Russia's transition towards the western liberal-democratic model since the end of the cold war. This book explores the role the Council of Europe, European Union and Organisation for Security and ...
The Making of Modern Lithuania
1st Edition
By Tomas Balkelis
August 25, 2011
This book argues that – contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric – Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918. The book ...