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.
Katyn and the Soviet Massacre of 1940: Truth, Justice and Memory
1st Edition
By George Sanford
May 14, 2009
The Soviet massacre of Polish prisoners of war at Katyn and in other camps in 1940 was one of the most notorious incidents of the Second World War. The truth about the massacres was long suppressed, both by the Soviet Union, and also by the United States and Britain who wished to hold together ...
Late Stalinist Russia: Society Between Reconstruction and Reinvention
1st Edition
By Juliane Fürst
May 14, 2009
The late Stalinist period, long neglected by researchers more interested in the high-profile events of the 1930s, has recently become the focus of much new research by people keen to understand the enormous impact of the war on Soviet society and to understand Soviet life under 'mature socialism'. ...
Literature in Post-Communist Russia and Eastern Europe: The Russian, Czech and Slovak Fiction of the Changes 1988-98
1st Edition
By Rajendra Anand Chitnis
May 14, 2009
This book considers Russian, Czech and Slovak fiction in the late communist and early post-communist periods. It focuses on the most innovative trend to emerge in this period, on those writers who, during and after the collapse of communism, characterised themselves as 'liberators' of literature. ...
Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization
1st Edition
By Natasa Kovacevic
May 14, 2009
The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in history, political science and literature - on the fostering of new identities across Eastern European countries in the absence of the old...
Peopling the Russian Periphery: Borderland Colonization in Eurasian History
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Breyfogle, Abby Schrader, Willard Sunderland
May 14, 2009
Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia. ...
Political and Social Thought in Post-Communist Russia
1st Edition
By Axel Kaehne
May 14, 2009
This is the first comprehensive study of Russian political and social thought in the post-Communist era. The book portrays and critically examines the conceptual and theoretical attempts by Russian scholars and political thinkers to make sense of the challenges of post-communism and the trials of ...
Russian Constitutionalism: Historical and Contemporary Development
1st Edition
By Andrei Medushevsky
May 14, 2009
Medushevsky examines constitutionalism in Russia from Tsarist times to the present. He traces the different attitudes to constitutionalism in political thought, and in practice, at different periods, showing how the balance between authoritarianism and liberalism has shifted. In addition, he ...
Russian Literary Culture in the Camera Age: The Word as Image
1st Edition
By Stephen Hutchings
May 14, 2009
This book explores how one of the world's most literary-oriented societies entered the modern visual era, beginning with the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, focusing then on literature's role in helping to shape cinema as a tool of official totalitarian culture during the Soviet ...
Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations of Literature, 1900-2001: Screening the Word
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Hutchings, Anat Vernitskaia
May 14, 2009
Providing many interesting case studies and bringing together many leading authorities on the subject, this book examines the importance of film adaptations of literature in Russian cinema, especially during the Soviet period when the cinema was accorded a vital role in imposing the authority of ...
The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization: Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Polly Jones
May 14, 2009
The Khrushchev era is increasingly seen as a period in its own right, and not just as 'post-Stalinism' or a forerunner of subsequent 'thaws' and 'reform from within'. This book provides a comprehensive history of reform in the period, focusing especially on social and cultural developments. Since ...
The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24: Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite
1st Edition
By Simon Pirani
May 14, 2009
The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book focuses on the retreat from the revolution’s aims in 1920–24, after the civil war and at the start of the New Economic Policy – and ...
The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia
1st Edition
By Isolde Brade, Konstantin Axenov, Evgenij Bondarchuk
May 14, 2009
In the years since 1989, the societies of Russia and Eastern Europe have undergone a remarkable transformation from socialism to democracy and free market capitalism. Making an important contribution to the theoretical literature of urbanism and post-communist transition, this significant book ...