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.
Social Rights in Russia: From Imperfect Past to Uncertain Future
1st Edition
By Eleanor Bindman
December 12, 2019
Russia's human rights record, especially violations of the right to life, liberty and freedom of expression, has been the subject of much international concern. Social, or welfare, rights, on the other hand, including the right to housing, health and access to social security, have received much ...
The South Caucasus - Security, Energy and Europeanization
1st Edition
Edited
By Meliha B. Altunışık, Oktay F. Tanrisever
December 12, 2019
This book explores developments in the countries of the South Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – since the EU included the region in the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2003. It considers issues related to energy, ethnic conflict, steps towards regional integration, and, above all, ...
Understanding Central Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcin Moskalewicz, Wojciech Przybylski
December 12, 2019
“Central Europe” is a vague and ambiguous term, more to do with outlook and a state of mind than with a firmly defined geographical region. In the immediate aftermath of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Central Europeans considered themselves to be culturally part of the West, ...
Post-Soviet Armenia: The New National Elite and the New National Narrative
1st Edition
By Irina Ghaplanyan
February 04, 2019
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has struggled to establish itself, with a faltering economy, emigration of the intelligentsia and the weakening of civil society. This book explores how a new national elite has emerged and how it has constructed a new national narrative to suit ...
Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands
1st Edition
By Epp Annus
February 04, 2019
Postcolonial studies is a well-established academic field, rich in theory, but it is based mostly on postcolonial experiences in former West European colonial empires. This book takes a different approach, considering postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc. It both applies ...
Politicising the Communist Past: The Politics of Truth Revelation in Post-Communist Poland
1st Edition
By Aleks Szczerbiak
January 07, 2019
Poland is a particularly interesting case of truth revelation and transitional justice in a post-communist country. This is because of the radical change of trajectory in its approach to dealing with the communist past, and the profound effect this had on Polish politics. The approach moved from '...
Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia
1st Edition
By Robert W. Orttung, Sufian Zhemukhov
January 03, 2019
President Vladimir Putin’s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia’s return to great power status, but subsequent aggression against Ukraine, large-scale corruption, and the doping scandal have become the true ...
Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation: Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Smith
August 14, 2018
Post-communist transformation in the former Soviet bloc has had a profound effect, not just in the political and economic sphere, but on all aspects of life. Although a great deal has been written about transformation, much of it has been about transformation viewed from the top, and little has ...
Political Elites and the New Russia: The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes
1st Edition
By Anton Steen
August 14, 2018
Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising ...
Political Parties in the Russian Regions
1st Edition
By Derek S. Hutcheson
August 14, 2018
Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's party system has suffered a difficult and turbulent infancy. Moscow based parties have had only very limited territorial penetration, and fragmentation has been one of its most significant features.Based on extensive fieldwork in three ...
Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe
1st Edition
By Jason Sharman
August 14, 2018
This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels ...
The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia: Boundary Issues
1st Edition
By J. Paul Goode
January 22, 2018
This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's federal reforms. It explains the decline of regionalism after 2000 in terms of the dynamics of regional boundaries, ...