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.
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
Edited
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 (...
Dagestan - History, Culture, Identity
1st Edition
By Robert Chenciner, Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov
November 29, 2024
Dagestan – History, Culture, Identity provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan’s rich and complicated history, from 5th c ACE to ...
Regional Leadership in Post-Soviet Eurasia: The Strategies of Russia, China, and the European Union
1st Edition
Edited
By Irina Busygina, Svetlana Krivokhizh
October 08, 2024
This book explores power in international relations, in a world characterized by the growing competition of major powers for smaller nations. Focusing on the major powers and smaller countries of Eurasia, it argues that power in international relations is different from coercion and is rather a ...
Disinformation, Narratives and Memory Politics in Russia and Belarus
1st Edition
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By Agnieszka Legucka, Robert Kupiecki
January 29, 2024
This book examines the ways in which Russia and Belarus use disinformation, "weaponised" historical narratives, and the politics of memory for domestic and foreign policy purposes, utilising these factors to justify aggressive foreign policy in defensive terms and, domestically, for legitimating ...
Innovation and Modernisation in Contemporary Russia: Science Towns, Technology Parks and Very Limited Success
1st Edition
By Imogen Sophie Kristin Wade
January 29, 2024
This book examines how technological modernisation and innovation policies have been implemented in Russia from the Soviet era to the present day. It discusses how since about 2000 the Russian state has attempted to address the country’s excessive dependence on natural resources by implementing an ...
Stalin’s Early Cold War Foreign Policy: Southern Neighbours in the Shadow of Moscow, 1945-1947
1st Edition
By Jamil Hasanli
January 29, 2024
Immediately after the Allied WW2 victory in Europe, claims were made by the Soviet Union over the eastern regions of Turkey, to secure direct control over the Bosporus, Dardanelles, and Turkish Straits. The detailed study of the international components of these events, featuring the veiled ...
The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Historical and Political Perspectives
1st Edition
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By M. Hakan Yavuz, Michael Gunter
January 29, 2024
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the long-running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian-majority region of Azerbaijan. It outlines the historical development of the dispute, explores the political and social aspects of the conflict, ...
Queering Russian Media and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Galina Miazhevich
September 25, 2023
This book explores how queerness and representations of queerness in media and culture are responding to the shifting socio-political, cultural and legal conditions in post-Soviet Russia, especially in the light of the so-called ‘antigay’ law of 2013. Based on extensive original research, the book ...
Shamanism in Siberia: Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva
1st Edition
By Mally Stelmaszyk
September 25, 2023
The focus of this book is on the phenomenon of cursing in shamanic practice and everyday life in Tuva, a former Soviet republic in Siberia. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork where the author interacted with a wide range of people involved in cursing practices, the book examines Tuvans’ ...