Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian and East European Studies.
Putin and Eurasian Relations: Russia into the Shadows
1st Edition
By Talal Nizameddin
August 04, 2026
This book explores Russia’s relations with Eurasian countries in response to its growing isolation from the Western world. Vladimir Putin’s worldview, shaped by history and personal experience, has led to an ideological focus on an inevitable civilizational clash with the West, closely tied to his...
Kazakhstan as a Middle Power in Wartime: Relations with Russia After the Invasion of Ukraine
1st Edition
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By Nygmet Ibadildin, Vladimir Ryzhkov
July 20, 2026
This book examines Kazakhstan's political, economic, social, ideological, and security response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, exploring its impact on international relations and Kazakhstan's resulting precarious position. Economically, strategically, and culturally linked to the Russian ...
Soviet Myth in Post-Soviet Russia
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Engström, Aleksei Semenenko
July 17, 2026
This book examines how the Soviet past is culturally negotiated, reimagined, and recreated in new temporal regimes; how the Soviet project is “recycled” and used as a key component in the construction of a new Russian collective identity, and how it has metamorphosed from a historical dimension ...
Western Cinema in the USSR: The Distribution and Reception of Trophy Films after WWII
1st Edition
By Kristina Tanis
June 26, 2026
Trophy films seized from the German film archive at the end of the Second World War were widely screened in Soviet cinemas. This monograph is the first dedicated study of these films, investigating their history in the USSR through three main perspectives: seizure and translocation, economic ...
Party Competition in Hybrid Regimes: The Case Study of Post-Soviet Georgia
1st Edition
By Levan Kakhishvili
June 15, 2026
This book examines the nature of party competition in hybrid regimes, focusing on Georgia, a post-Soviet hybrid regime. It explores the coexistence of programmatic and clientelistic forms of party competition, offering a nuanced understanding of electoral dynamics in non-democratic contexts. ...
Ethnicity and Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Eurasia
1st Edition
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By Vincenc Kopeček, Martin Lepič, Libor Jelen
December 31, 2025
This book focuses on the study of ethnic minorities in post- Soviet Eurasia, their self-perceptions, and their relations with ethnic majorities and dominant state- and nation-building. Contributors to the book examine strategies and networks which minorities create for preserving a group’s ...
Russian Strategic Narratives on the Chinese Internet: Non-Linear Soft Power Projection
1st Edition
By Rui Wang
December 31, 2025
This book challenges the notion that strategic narratives, which carry soft power significance, are seamlessly projected to audiences. It offers the first book-length critical analysis of the non-linear dissemination of strategic narratives in the digital age, focusing on social media. Through a ...
Geopolitics and Poland's Foreign Policy: The Intermarium Concept and the Three Seas Initiative
1st Edition
By Alicja McGarrigle
November 25, 2025
Geopolitics and Poland's Foreign Policy offers a comprehensive examination of how the Intermarium continues to influence Polish foreign policy. The Three Seas Initiative (TSI) in Eastern Europe was announced in 2016 as a flagship project of Polish diplomacy. In this book, the author analyses the ...
European Energy Security and US-Russian Competition: Power Struggles in a Changing World
1st Edition
By Ioanna Mavromati
October 31, 2025
This book argues that the influence of US-Russian security competition on the energy policies of EU member states and on the development of a unified European energy security policy has been significantly underestimated. While most previous studies have focused on internal EU dynamics and the ...
Fiction, Memory, and Ethnic Politics in the South Caucasus
1st Edition
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By Mikail Mamedov, Peter Orte, Nona Shahnazarian, Ulvi Ismayil
September 30, 2025
The book explores the aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the effects of war and nationalism in the South Caucasus. While the Soviet Union’s dissolution seemed to promise democracy and liberalization, the rise of nationalist movements in Armenia and Azerbaijan led to those ...
Sexuality, Nudity and the Body in Soviet Cinema
1st Edition
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By Birgit Beumers, Catherine Géry, Eugenie Zvonkine
July 18, 2025
This book explores evocations of and allusions to sexual desire in Soviet cinema, 1919–1991. By deploying several lines of investigation – from the cult of the masculine, strong body in Stalinist cinema to the shifting signification of the naked body (male and female) in post-war cinema and to the ...
Poles, Polonia, and the Quest for Liberty
1st Edition
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By John S. Micgiel
June 13, 2025
Poles, Polonia, and the Quest for Liberty provides a scholarly analysis of how Poles and Polish-Americans have cherished liberty and democracy in Poland and struggled to achieve those ideals across the centuries. Experts in the field tackle a series of topics that illuminate major themes in the ...