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.
Georgia after Stalin: Nationalism and Soviet power
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy K. Blauvelt, Jeremy Smith
January 12, 2018
This book explores events in Georgia in the years following Stalin’s death in March 1953, especially the demonstrations of March 1956 and their brutal suppression, in order to illuminate the tensions in Georgia between veneration of the memory of Stalin, a Georgian, together with the associated ...
Russian Foreign Policy under Dmitry Medvedev, 2008-2012
1st Edition
By Valerie Pacer
January 12, 2018
Although the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev is often seen as a continuation of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, with the same policies applied in the same way, this book disagrees, arguing that Medvedev’s foreign policy was significantly different from Putin’s. The book considers especially the ...
The EU's Eastern Neighbourhood: Migration, Borders and Regional Stability
1st Edition
Edited
By Ilkka Liikanen, James Wesley Scott, Tiina Sotkasiira
January 12, 2018
The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia, impacts which are not yet fully worked through: changes in state-society relations, a comprehensive reconfiguration of political, economic and social ...
The Radical Right in Late Imperial Russia: Dreams of a True Fatherland?
1st Edition
By George Gilbert
January 12, 2018
The revolutionary movements in late tsarist Russia inspired a reaction by groups on the right. Although these groups were ostensibly defending the status quo, they were in fact, as this book argues, very radical in many ways. This book discusses these radical rightist groups, showing how they ...
Communicating Climate Change in Russia: State and Propaganda
1st Edition
By Marianna Poberezhskaya
January 03, 2018
The attitude of Russia towards climate change is extremely important for the success of climate change control policies worldwide, as Russia, with its cold climate and vast resources of carbon fuels, is one of the world’s biggest polluters. Moreover, Russia frequently comes across as not being very...
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post-Soviet Difference
1st Edition
By Stephen Hutchings, Vera Tolz
December 21, 2017
Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television ...
Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: Russians and Non-Russians in the North Caucasus
1st Edition
By Andrew Foxall
October 12, 2017
While the collapse of communism in Russia was relatively peaceful, ethnic relations have been deteriorating since then. This deterioration poses a threat to the functioning of the Russian state and is a major obstacle to its future development. Analysing ethnic relations in the North Caucasus, this...
Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989: Re-Visions
1st Edition
Edited
By Sanja Bahun, John Haynes
May 10, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive re-examination of the cinemas of the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe during the communist era. It argues that, since the end of communism in these countries, film scholars are able to view these cinemas in a different way, no longer bound by an outlook...
New Europe's New Development Aid
1st Edition
By Balázs Szent-Iványi, Simon Lightfoot
May 10, 2017
This book examines the international development policies of five East Central European new EU member states, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. These countries turned from being aid recipients to donors after the turn of the millennium in the run-up to EU accession in 2004...
Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin
1st Edition
By Daphne Skillen
February 27, 2017
This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present. It shows how long-cherished hopes for an open society in which people would speak freely and tell truth to power fared under Gorbachev’s glasnost; how free speech was a real, if fractured, ...
Russia-China Relations in the Post-Crisis International Order
1st Edition
By Marcin Kaczmarski
December 14, 2016
The book explores developments in Russia-China relations in the aftermath of the global economic crisis, arguing that the crisis transformed their bilateral affairs, regional liaisons and, crucially, altered the roles both states play on the international arena. Discussing how Russo-Chinese ...
Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Tomasz Zarycki
December 07, 2016
This book explores how the countries of Eastern Europe, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc have, since the end of communist rule, developed a new ideology of their place in the world. Drawing on post-colonial theory and on identity discourses in the writings of local intelligentsia figures...