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.
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
Edited
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
Edited
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’ ...
Tatarstan's Autonomy within Putin's Russia: Minority Elites, Ethnic Mobilization, and Sovereignty
1st Edition
By Deniz Dinç
September 25, 2023
This book explores how the Volga Tatars, the largest ethnic minority within the Russian Federation, a Muslim minority, achieved a great deal of autonomy for Tatarstan in the years 1988 to 1992, but then lost this autonomy gradually over the course of the Putin era. It sets the issue in context, ...
The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics: Secession, Integration, and Homeland
1st Edition
By Anna Batta
September 25, 2023
This book explores the differing treatment of Russian minorities in the non-Russian republics which seceded from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Providing detailed case studies, it explains why intervention by Russia occurred in the case of Ukraine, despite Ukraine’s benevolent and inclusive ...
The State and Big Business in Russia: Understanding Kremlin–Business Relations in the Early Putin Era
1st Edition
By Tina Jennings
September 25, 2023
This book presents a study of the complex relationship between the Russian state and big business during Vladimir Putin’s first two presidential terms (2000–2008). Based on extensive original research, it focuses on the interaction of Russia’s political executive with the ‘oligarchs’. It shows how ...
Europe, Russia and the Liberal World Order: International Relations after the Cold War
1st Edition
By Timofei Bordachev
May 31, 2023
This book analyses Russia-Europe/EU relations by exploring their practical essence and conceptualizing them in terms of the main categories of international relations research. It argues that the liberal world order, established in Cold War days, whereby international relations are underpinned by a...