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.
Russia and Islam: State, Society and Radicalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Roland Dannreuther, Luke March
August 15, 2011
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, both the Russian state and Russia's Muslim communities have struggled to find a new modus vivendi in a rapidly changing domestic and international socio-political context. At the same time as Islamic religious belief and practice have flourished, the state ...
The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland: Strategic Misperceptions and Unanticipated Outcomes
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Hayden
August 04, 2011
Based on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates the sudden and unforeseen collapse of communist power in Poland in 1989. It sets out the sequence of events, and examines the strategies of the various political groupings prior to the partially...
Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia
1st Edition
By Suvi Salmenniemi
May 13, 2011
This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society. It describes the character and central organizing principles of Russian democratic civic life, considering how it has developed since the Soviet period, and analyzing the goals and identities of ...
Reinventing Poland: Economic and Political Transformation and Evolving National Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Myant, Terry Cox
May 13, 2011
The end of communism and accession to the European Union have had a huge impact on Poland. This book provides an overall assessment of the post-1989 transformation in Poland. It focuses in particular on four key themes: economic transformation and its outcomes; the heritage of the past ...
Russian Policy towards China and Japan: The El'tsin and Putin Periods
1st Edition
By Natasha Kuhrt
May 13, 2011
Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an in-depth examination of Russia’s relations with China and Japan, the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For Russia there has always been more than one ‘Asia’: after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were those in the Russian ...
The Emancipation of the Serfs in Russia: Peace Arbitrators and the Development of Civil Society
1st Edition
By Roxanne Easley
May 13, 2011
In the wake of the disastrous Crimean War, the Russian autocracy completely renovated its most basic social, political and economic systems by emancipating some 23 million privately-owned serfs. This had enormous consequences for all aspects of Russian life, and profound effects on the course of ...
The New Right in the New Europe: Czech Transformation and Right-Wing Politics, 1989–2006
1st Edition
By Seán Hanley
May 13, 2011
This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the Czech Republic. Although the country with the strongest social democratic traditions in Eastern Europe, the Czech Republic also produced the region’s ...
The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals
1st Edition
Edited
By Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova
May 11, 2011
This book explores developments in the Russian mass media since the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Complementing and building upon its companion volume, Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control, it traces the tensions resulting from the effective return to state-control under Putin ...
Critical Theory in Russia and the West
1st Edition
Edited
By Alastair Renfrew, Galin Tihanov
April 14, 2011
The traditional view that the rise of Western theoretical thought in the 1960s and 1970s could be traced back to the Soviet 1920s, once accepted in Russia and the West alike because it directly associated the academic prestige of contemporary Western theory with the intellectual climate of ...
Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev
1st Edition
Edited
By Melanie Ilic, Jeremy Smith
April 14, 2011
This book examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. It highlights the fact that many of the reform initiatives generally associated with Khrushchev personally, and with his period of...
The Germans of the Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Irina Mukhina
April 14, 2011
The Germans were a very substantial minority in Russia, and many leading figures, including the Empress Catherine the Great, were German. Using rarely seen archival information, this book provides an account of the experiences of the Germans living in the Soviet Union from the early post-revolution...
Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote control
1st Edition
By Stephen Hutchings, Natalia Rulyova
July 21, 2010
This book examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. In recent years, the growing influx into Russian television of globally mediated genres and formats has coincided with a decline in media freedom and a ratcheting up of government control over the content style ...