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 after 2020: Looking Ahead after Two Decades of Putin
1st Edition
By J. L. Black
May 31, 2023
This book presents a comprehensive survey of the current state of Russia and how Russia is likely to develop in the immediate future. Not always sticking to the mainstream narrative, it covers political events including Putin’s constitutional reforms of January 2020 and their likely consequences, ...
Ukraine, Russia and the West: When Value Promotion Met Hard Power
1st Edition
By Stefan Hedlund
April 28, 2023
Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? This is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to ...
Soviet Films of the 1970s and Early 1980s: Conformity and Non-Conformity Amidst Stagnation Decay
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina Rojavin, Tim Harte
January 09, 2023
This book explores a new character archetype that permeated Soviet film during what became known as the era of Stagnation, a stark period of loneliness, disappointment, and individual despair. This new type of character was neither negative nor positive, but nevertheless systematically undermined ...
The Sense of Mission in Russian Foreign Policy: Destined for Greatness!
1st Edition
By Alicja Curanović
September 26, 2022
This book explores how far messianism, the conviction that Russia has a special historical destiny, is present in, and affects, Russian foreign policy. Based on extensive original research, including analysis of public statements, policy documents and opinion polls, the book argues that a sense of ...
Russia's Food Revolution: The Transformation of the Food System
1st Edition
By Stephen K. Wegren
May 06, 2022
This book analyzes the food revolution that has occurred in Russia since the late 1980s, documenting the transformation in systems of production, supply, distribution, and consumption. It examines the dominant actors in the food system; explores how the state regulates food; considers changes in ...
Russia's Far North: The Contested Energy Frontier
1st Edition
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By Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Shinichiro Tabata, Daria Gritsenko, Masanori Goto
September 30, 2021
The Russian Far North is immensely rich in resources, both energy and other resources, and is also one of the least developed regions of Russia. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the region. It examines resource issues and the related environmental problems, considers the Arctic and ...
The City in Russian Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Pavel Lyssakov, Stephen Norris
September 30, 2021
Cities are constructed and organized by people, and in turn become an important factor in the organization of human life. They are sites of both social encounter and social division and provide for their inhabitants “a sense of place”. This book explores the nature of Russian cities, outlining the ...
Understanding Energy Security in Central and Eastern Europe: Russia, Transition and National Interest
1st Edition
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By Wojciech Ostrowski, Eamonn Butler
September 30, 2021
The purpose of this book is to move beyond the approach which views energy as a purely geopolitical tool of the Russian state and assumes a 'one size fits all' approach to energy security in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that in order to fully understand Russian involvement in ...
New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe
1st Edition
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By Katharina Bluhm, Mihai Varga
June 30, 2020
This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratization, and rule of law that has characterized moves toward an "open society" from the 1990s. It discusses ...
Russia's Regional Identities: The Power of the Provinces
1st Edition
Edited
By Edith Clowes, Gisela Erbslöh, Ani Kokobobo
May 07, 2020
Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralised regime based in Moscow, with dependent provinces, made subservient by Putin’s policies limiting regional autonomy. This book, however, demonstrates that beyond this largely political view, by looking at Russia’s regions more in cultural and ...
Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia
1st Edition
By W. John Morgan, Irina N. Trofimova, Grigori A. Kliucharev
April 28, 2020
Civil Society, Social Change and a New Popular Education in Russia is a detailed account of contemporary issues that draws upon recent survey research conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from secondary published work in both Russian and English. The book...
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
1st Edition
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By Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, Sanna Turoma
December 12, 2019
Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by ...