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.
Security, Society and the State in the Caucasus
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevork Oskanian, Derek Averre
September 30, 2020
The Caucasus, including the South Caucasus states and Russia’s North Caucasus, continues to be an area of instability and conflict. This book, based on extensive original research, explores in detail at both the local and regional level the interaction between state and society and the impact of ...
Belarus - Alternative Visions: Nation, Memory and Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
By Simon Lewis
June 30, 2020
Belarus is often regarded as "Europe’s last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus’s development, including its likely future development, is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing ...
Belarus under Lukashenka: Adaptive Authoritarianism
1st Edition
By Matthew Frear
June 30, 2020
This book explores the nature of the regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, and who is often characterized as "the last dictator in Europe". It discusses how Lukashenka came to power, providing a survey of politics in Belarus in early post-Soviet times, examines how ...
Class Cultures in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Dražen Cepić
June 30, 2020
This book investigates the extent to which social class has changed in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses how ideas about class are viewed by both working class and middle class people. The book examines how such ...
Russian Nationalism: Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields
1st Edition
By Marlene Laruelle
June 30, 2020
This book, by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, explores the complex nature of Russian nationalism. It examines nationalism as a multilayered and multifaceted repertoire displayed by a myriad of actors. It considers nationalism as various concepts and ideas emphasizing Russia’s ...
Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000
1st Edition
By Roman Wolczuk
June 30, 2020
This book analyses Ukraine's relations with each of its neighbours in the 1990s. It examines the degree to which these relations fitted into Ukraine's broad objective of reorienting its key political ties from East to West, and asseses the extent to which Ukraine succeeded in achieving this ...
Oil and the Economy of Russia: From the Late-Tsarist to the Post-Soviet Period
1st Edition
By Nat Moser
December 12, 2019
This book examines the development of the Russian economy from tsarist times to the present through the lens of the oil industry. It considers the role of the state, business-state relations, foreign participation, enterprise performance and technology. Besides providing much rich detail on the ...
Political Catholicism and Euroscepticism: The Deviant Case of Poland in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Bartosz Napieralski
December 12, 2019
This book explores the phenomena of both Political Catholicism and the growth of Euroscepticism across Eastern and Western Europe. It focuses in particular on Political Catholicism in Poland, but sets this in its wider European context. It examines the nature of Political Catholicism as a political...
Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthias Neumann, Andy Willimott
December 12, 2019
The Russian Revolution of 1917 has often been presented as a complete break with the past, with everything which had gone before swept away, and all aspects of politics, economy, and society reformed and made new. Recently, however, historians have increasingly come to question this view, ...
Russia's Economy in an Epoch of Turbulence: Crises and Lessons
1st Edition
By Vladimir Mau
December 12, 2019
Over the course of the last thirty years post-communist Russia has either been struggling with crises, discussing the lessons learned from past crises, or attempting to trace the contours of future crises. Based on the author’s own experiences and his research over this long period, this book ...
Russian Environmental Politics: State, Industry and Policymaking
1st Edition
By Ellie Martus
December 12, 2019
Protecting the environment is a key issue for Russia, with its vast wilderness areas and its economy’s reliance on extractive industries, which have the potential to cause massive pollution. This book explores how policymaking works in Russia, focusing on the important field of environmental policy...
Social Media and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Paweł Surowiec, Václav Štětka
December 12, 2019
Social media are increasingly revolutionising the ways in which political communication works, and their importance for engaging citizens in politics and public affairs is well understood by political actors. This book surveys current developments in social media and politics in a range of Central ...