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.
Constitutional Bargaining in Russia, 1990-93: Institutions and Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Edward Morgan-Jones
September 18, 2015
The years 1990-93 were a critical moment in Russia’s political development. This book provides a systematic explanation of outcomes of constitutional bargaining processes in Russia, which radically reshaped the institutions of the Russian state: removing Russia from constitutional subordination to ...
Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet Russia: Vocational youth in transition
1st Edition
By Charles Walker
September 03, 2015
This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of neo-liberal economic reform. Based on extensive ethnographic research in a provincial Russian region, it follows the experiences of vocational education graduates ...
Post-Communist Poland – Contested Pasts and Future Identities
1st Edition
By Ewa Ochman
September 03, 2015
This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting ...
Disease, Health Care and Government in Late Imperial Russia: Life and Death on the Volga, 1823-1914
1st Edition
By Charlotte E. Henze
August 14, 2015
This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera in the city of Saratov on the ...
Civil Society in Putin's Russia
1st Edition
By Elena Chebankova
July 22, 2015
Unlike other books on civil society in Russia which argue that Russia’s civil society is relatively weak, and that democratisation in Russia went into reverse following Vladimir Putin’s coming to power, this book contends that civil society in Russia is developing in a distinctive way. It shows ...
The Myth of the Russian Intelligentsia: Old Intellectuals in the New Russia
1st Edition
By Inna Kochetkova
February 27, 2015
Russia is one of the few countries in the world where intellectuals existed as a social group and shared a unique social identity. This book focuses on one of the most important and influential groups of Russian intellectuals - the 1960s generation of shestidesyatniki - often considered the ...
Putin's Preventive Counter-Revolution: Post-Soviet Authoritarianism and the Spectre of Velvet Revolution
1st Edition
By Robert Horvath
November 10, 2014
This book examines the 'preventive counter-revolution,' a programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin's second term as president. Kremlin propagandists hailed this programme as a defence of national sovereignty against Western attempts to ...
Citizens in the Making in Post-Soviet States
1st Edition
By Olena Nikolayenko
August 12, 2014
The political outlook of young people in the countries of the former Soviet Union is crucial to their countries’ future political development. This is particularly relevant now as the first generation without firsthand experience of communism at first hand is approaching adulthood. Based on ...
Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russianness: A New Perspective on Unity and Brotherhood
1st Edition
By Sarah Hudspith
August 12, 2014
This book examines Dostoevsky's interest in, and engagement with, "Slavophilism" - a Russian mid-nineteenth century movement of conservative nationalist thought. It explores Dostoevsky's views, as expressed in both his non-fiction and fiction, on the religious, spiritual and moral ideas which he ...
Russia's Identity in International Relations: Images, Perceptions, Misperceptions
1st Edition
Edited
By Raymond Taras
August 12, 2014
Bringing together leading scholars from Russia and outside experts on Russia, this book looks at the difference between the image Russia has of itself and the way it is viewed in the West. It discusses the historical, cultural and political foundations that these images are built upon, and goes on ...
Small-Town Russia: Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities: A Portrait of the Intelligentsia in Achit, Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov, 1999-2000
1st Edition
By Anne White
August 12, 2014
This book examines a number of key questions about social change in contemporary Russia - issues such as how people survive when they are not paid for months on end, 'the New Poor', the falling birth rate, why so many Russian men die in middle age, whether regional identities are becoming stronger,...
The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism: The Making and Breaking of State Socialist Society, and What Followed
1st Edition
By David Lane
August 12, 2014
David Lane outlines succinctly yet comprehensively the development and transformation of state socialism. While focussing on Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe, he also engages in a discussion of the Chinese path. In response to the changing social structure and external demands, he ...