Imperial Transformations – Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet History
About the Book Series
The experiences of Russia and the Soviet Union as empires, from the perspectives both of great power politics and also the government of large, diverse populations, has much to contribute to wider historical studies of empire and colonialism, where much of the focus has concentrated on Western European countries and their overseas colonies. This series includes work on a wide range of subjects related to Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet empires. It covers work on the imperial peripheries as well as the imperial centre, on social, religious and marginal groups and the lived experiences of empire as well as politics and imperial elites, and on legal and constitutional frameworks and the intellectual underpinnings of empire. Besides the work of Western scholars, the series includes a strong strand of books from a new rising generation of very promising young historians from the region itself.
Submissions from prospective authors are welcomed, and should be sent in the first instance to Alexander Semyonov ([email protected]).
For further enquiries, please contact the Routledge editor, Dorothea Schaefter ([email protected])
Social History of the True Orthodox Christians Wandering in Russia: Capitalism, Communism, and Apocalypse, 1900-1930
1st Edition
By Igor Kuziner
November 12, 2025
This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid late imperial, early Soviet and Stalinist modernization. The self-titled True Orthodox Christian believed the 17th-century reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church ushered in ...
Muslims in the Russian Army: Colonial Accommodation and the Limits of Empire, 1874 –1917
1st Edition
By Franziska Davies
May 13, 2025
Muslims in the Russian Army is the first comprehensive account of the tsarist army’s relationship to Muslim soldiers in late imperial Russia. When Russia mobilized her army in the summer of 1914 more than half a million of the soldiers recruited for the front were Muslims from the Volga-Ural region...
Jihadism in the Russian-Speaking World: The Genealogy of a Post-Soviet Phenomenon
1st Edition
By Danis Garaev
May 27, 2024
This book contends that the discourses of jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus, and their offshoots in other parts of the Russian Federation, are not just reflections of jihadi ideologies that came from abroad, rather that post-Soviet jihadism is a phenomenon best understood when placed in the ...
Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba
1st Edition
By Timothy Blauvelt
January 09, 2023
Based on extensive original research, this book tells the astonishing story of early Soviet Abkhazia and of its leader, the charismatic Bolshevik revolutionary Nestor Lakoba. A tiny republic on the Black Sea coast of the USSR, Abkhazia became a vacation retreat for Party leaders and a major ...