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.
The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War
1st Edition
By Violeta Davoliūtė
July 27, 2016
Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the ...
Russia’s Federal Relations: Putin's Reforms and Management of the Regions
1st Edition
By Elena Chebankova
July 08, 2016
The development of centre-regional relations has been at the forefront of Russian politics since the formation of the Russian state and numerous efforts have been made by the country’s subsequent rulers to create a political model that would be suitable for the effective management of its vast ...
Democracy versus Modernization: A Dilemma for Russia and for the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Vladislav Inozemtsev, Piotr Dutkiewicz
June 28, 2016
This book seeks to "re-think democracy." Over the past years, there has been a tendency in the global policy community and, even more widely, in the world’s media, to focus on democracy as the "gold standard" by which all things political are measured. This book re-examines democracy in Russia and...
East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulrike Ziemer, Sean P. Roberts
June 28, 2016
Following the demise of the USSR in 1991, and the ensuing collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, widespread population movements took place across Central and Eastern Europe. Whole nations disappeared and (re)-emerged and diasporic transnational ties and belonging have experienced a ...
The EU-Russia Borderland: New Contexts for Regional Cooperation
1st Edition
Edited
By Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka Liikanen, James Wesley Scott
June 28, 2016
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were high hopes of Russia’s "modernisation" and rapid political and economic integration with the EU. But now, given its own policies of national development, Russia appears to have ‘limits to integration’. Today, much European political discourse again...
Eastern Europe and the Challenges of Modernity, 1800-2000
1st Edition
By Stefano Bianchini
May 10, 2016
This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the mainstream flows of ideas, politics and itineraries towards modernity in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans over two centuries from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the Gorbachev administration. Unlike other...
Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: History, policy and everyday life
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Rasell, Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova
April 27, 2016
There are over thirty million disabled people in Russia and Eastern Europe, yet their voices are rarely heard in scholarly studies of life and well-being in the region. This book brings together new research by internationally recognised local and non-native scholars in a range of countries in ...
Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia
1st Edition
Edited
By Oleg Kharkhordin, Risto Alapuro
February 29, 2016
This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation, in this case after 1991 in the city of Cherepovets in Russia, home of Russia’s second ...
The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Russia
1st Edition
By Ulla Pape
January 20, 2016
This book studies the role of civil society organisations in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Russia. It looks at how Russia’s HIV/AIDS epidemic has developed into a serious social, economic and political problem, and how according to the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Russia is ...
The Transition to Democracy in Hungary: Árpád Göncz and the Post-Communist Hungarian Presidency
1st Edition
By Dae Soon Kim
December 07, 2015
Unlike in other countries of Eastern Europe where the opposition to communism came in the form of single mass movements led by charismatic leaders such as Václav Havel and Lech Wałęsa, in Hungary the opposition was very fragmented, brought together and made effective only by the authoritative, ...
Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era
1st Edition
By Natalya Chernyshova
October 12, 2015
After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale. This book analyses the politics and economics of the state’s efforts to ...
Soviet Economic Management Under Khrushchev: The Sovnarkhoz Reform
1st Edition
By Nataliya Kibita
September 29, 2015
The Sovnarkhoz Reform of 1957 was designed by Khrushchev to improve efficiency in the Soviet economic system by decentralising economic decision making from all-Union branch ministries in Moscow to the governments of the individual republics and regional economic councils. Based on extensive ...