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.
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...
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 ...
Czech Democracy in the New Millennium
1st Edition
By Andrew L. Roberts
August 29, 2022
This book assesses the quality of Czech democracy relative to both its postcommunist peers and older EU members. Motivated by the authoritarian tendencies and illiberal outcomes in the postcommunist region, it explores the extent to which the Czech Republic is genuinely an outlier within the region...