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.
Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Abel Polese, Jeremy Morris, Emilia Pawłusz, Oleksandra Seliverstova
December 12, 2019
This book explores the function of the “everyday” in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. Based on extensive original research including fieldwork, the book demonstrates how the study of everyday and mundane ...
Reforming the Russian Industrial Workplace: International Management Standards meet the Soviet Legacy
1st Edition
By Elena Shulzhenko
December 12, 2019
Based on extensive original research, this book explores how far the Soviet pattern of industrial workplace organisation, characterised by a high level of management discretion, authoritarian control and the use of punitive methods on the shop-floor, has been replaced by internationally ...
Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet/Russian Cinema: Styles, characters and genres before and after the collapse of the USSR
1st Edition
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By Birgit Beumers, Eugenie Zvonkine
December 12, 2019
This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores...
Russia - Art Resistance and the Conservative-Authoritarian Zeitgeist
1st Edition
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By Lena Jonson, Andrei Erofeev
December 12, 2019
This book explores how artistic strategies of resistance have survived under the conservative-authoritarian regime which has been in place in Russia since 2012. It discusses the conditions under which artists work as the state spells out a new state cultural policy, aesthetics change and the state ...
Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods
1st Edition
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By Marina Rojavin, Tim Harte
December 12, 2019
This book illuminates and explores the representation of women in Soviet cinema from the late 1950s, through the 1960s, and into the 1970s, a period when Soviet culture shifted away, to varying degrees, from the well-established conventions of socialist realism. Covering films about working ...
Gender Inequality in the Eastern European Labour Market: Twenty-five years of transition since the fall of communism
1st Edition
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By Giovanni Razzu
April 20, 2018
Under communism there was, in the countries of Eastern Europe, a high level of gender equality in the labour market, particularly in terms of high participation rates by women. The transition from communism has upset this situation, with different impacts in the different countries. This book ...
Migrant Workers in Russia: Global Challenges of the Shadow Economy in Societal Transformation
1st Edition
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By Anna-Liisa Heusala, Kaarina Aitamurto
April 09, 2018
Russia has a very large pool of economic migrants, up to 25% of the workforce according to some estimates. Although many migrants, many from former Soviet countries which are now independent, entered Russia legally, they frequently face bureaucratic obstacles to legal employment and Russian ...
Russian Aviation, Space Flight and Visual Culture
1st Edition
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By Vlad Strukov, Helena Goscilo
April 09, 2018
Among the many successes of the Soviet Union were inaugural space flight—ahead of the United States—and many other triumphs related to aviation. Aviators and cosmonauts enjoyed heroic status in the Soviet Union, and provided supports of the Soviet project with iconic figures which could be used to ...
The Telengits of Southern Siberia: Landscape, Religion and Knowledge in Motion
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Halemba
February 06, 2018
In a new and engaging study, Halemba explores the religion and world outlook of the Telengits of Altai. The book provides an account of the Altai, its peoples, clans and political structures, focusing particularly on on the Telengits, whilst also considering the different elements of religious ...
Chinese Migrants in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Felix B. Chang, Sunnie T. Rucker-Chang
January 22, 2018
Much of the former Soviet bloc has become a destination for new Chinese migrants. Throughout Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Chinese migrants are engaged in entrepreneurial activities, primarily as petty merchants of consumer goods in unsteady economies. This book situates these migrants ...
Corporate Strategy in Post-Communist Russia
1st Edition
By Mikhail Glazunov
January 12, 2018
Russian businesses in the post-Soviet period have been noted for their unusual, sometimes allegedly corrupt, business practices, and for their role in the enrichment of oligarchs. This book, which includes a wide range of case study examples, and which draws on the author’s first-hand experience of...
Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russia's Regions: Social Processes in Comparative Historical Perspective
1st Edition
By Molly O'Neal
January 12, 2018
This book adopts a novel analytical approach to understanding how Russia's stalled democratisation is related to the incomplete liberalisation of the economy. Based on extensive original comparative study of Russia’s regions, the book explores the precise channels of interaction that create the ...