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.
Geopolitics and Poland's Foreign Policy: The Intermarium Concept and the Three Seas Initiative
1st Edition
By Alicja McGarrigle
November 12, 2025
Geopolitics and Poland's Foreign Policy offers 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 TSI ...
European Energy Security and US-Russian Competition: Power Struggles in a Changing World
1st Edition
By Ioanna Mavromati
October 27, 2025
This book argues that the influence of US-Russia 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 role ...
Fiction, Memory, and Ethnic Politics in the South Caucasus
1st Edition
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By Mikail Mamedov, Peter Orte, Nona Shahnazarian, Ulvi Ismayi
October 10, 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, Eugénie 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 ...
Exploring Russia’s Exceptionalism in International Politics
1st Edition
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By Raymond Taras
May 06, 2025
This book explores Russia’s sense of its own uniqueness and the impact this has had on Russia’s conduct of international relations. Examining concepts such as Russia’s special civilising mission, its difference from the West, its proneness to conduct violent warfare, and more, and discussing these ...
Media and Masculinities in Contemporary Russia: Constructing Non-heteronormativity
1st Edition
By Olga Andreevskikh
May 06, 2025
Based on extensive original research, this book examines the extent to which media in Russia upholds the Russian government’s stance on sexuality. It considers the Russian government’s policies designed to uphold ‘traditional sexuality’, reveals the strategies of resistance used by Russian media ...
Reassessing Russia's Security Policy
1st Edition
By Nurlan Aliyev
May 06, 2025
This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of Russia’s security policy. Based on extensive original research, including an analysis of official documents, political and military elite speeches, interviews, and reports, and considering the subject from the early 20th century onward, the...
Russia and Latvia: A Case of Sharp Power
1st Edition
By Andis Kudors
April 14, 2025
This book explores Russia’s relations with Latvia, arguing that Latvia, with a higher proportion of Russian speakers than other Baltic states, is especially vulnerable to Russia’s “sharp power”. The book highlights how authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are unable to exercise soft power based ...
Russia Reverts to Muscovy: What if We Simply Drop "Russia" from the Discourse?
1st Edition
By Stefan Hedlund
February 03, 2025
Russia Reverts to Muscovy explores the implications of removing the notion of “Russia” from political and scholarly discourse. The book posits the following questions: Should the state ruled from Moscow be termed “Russia”? Might not “Muscovy” be more appropriate? It reflects on how academia has ...
Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe: Infested with History
1st Edition
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By Sergey Rumyantsev
January 21, 2025
This book examines both formal and extracurricular education, and the politics of memory and historical narratives in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine. The misalignment between memory politics and history politics forms a central theme of this book. Structured in three parts, it focuses ...
The Political Economy of Extreme Poverty in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Historical Perspective of Romanian Roma
1st Edition
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By Enikő Vincze, Cornel Ban, Sorin Gog, Jon Horgen Friberg
December 03, 2024
This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in Eastern Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political mechanisms that have shaped it in labor, housing, and migration. This interdisciplinary book explores the (...