Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
About the Book Series
The nations of Central and Eastern Europe experienced a time of momentous change in the period following the Second World War. The vast majority were subject to Communism and central planning while events such as the Hungarian uprising and Prague Spring stood out as key watershed moments against a distinct social, cultural and political backcloth. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, German reunification and the break-up of the Soviet Union, changes from the 1990s onwards have also been momentous with countries adjusting to various capitalist realities. The volumes in this series will help shine a light on the experiences of this key geopolitical zone with many lessons to be learned for the future.
Women, Gender, and Socialist Ideology in Soviet Russia
1st Edition
By David L. Hoffmann
March 03, 2026
This book examines the place of women in Soviet Russia from the 1917 Revolution through the post-World War II period, discussing how the Soviet construction of gender perpetuated inequality even as it dramatically expanded women’s roles in society. Chapters of this book explore Bolshevik activists’...
Grigory Zinoviev: Lenin’s Right-hand Man
1st Edition
By Åsmund Egge
December 31, 2025
Utilising primary sources in Russian archives, relevant research on Russian and Soviet history and memoirs from contemporaries, this book examines the life of Grigory Zinoviev (1883–1936). Grigory Zinoviev was Vladimir Lenin’s closest political companion in the decade before the Russian Revolution ...
The Holocaust and Soviet War Crimes Trials in the Cold War Context: The 1964 Klaipėda War Crimes Trial
1st Edition
By Gintarė Malinauskaitė
December 26, 2025
This volume aims to offer a fresh perspective towards the evaluation of Soviet war crimes trials of Holocaust perpetrators, their representation through various means of media, and their reception in the context of the Cold War.By examining the 1964 Klaipėda war crimes trial in Soviet ...
Gender and World War II in the Yugoslav Media
1st Edition
By Iva Jelušić
October 30, 2025
This book presents an analysis of the cultural memory of women’s participation in the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle (1941–1945), with a particular focus on the figure of the female soldier. It examines how this subject was treated in socialist Yugoslavia’s popular printed press ...
A Cultural History of Serbia: Tradition and Change
1st Edition
By David A. Norris
September 29, 2025
This volume focuses on Serbia’s need to manage change while preserving community identities, a narrative that avoids the common depiction of Serbian culture as a hostile struggle between modernizers supporting foreign models and traditionalists advocating forms of national cultural patrimony. ...
Narrating the Soviet Era in Russian School History Textbooks
1st Edition
By Olga Konkka
September 03, 2025
This study focuses on how Russian history textbooks published between 1992 and 2021 dealt with the topic of the Soviet period (1917–1991). Representations of this part of Russia’s past in school manuals have provoked vivid debates and bolstered government intervention in the field, while a gradual ...
Collective Memory in Post-Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast
1st Edition
By Miłosz J. Cordes
June 16, 2025
This volume presents the way the discourse of memory and identity in the post-Soviet territory of Kaliningrad Oblast has altered over time, examining the ways in which politically motivated German myths about East Prussia, which emerged after the unification of Germany in 1871, were reused and ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 1: 1954–1956
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
This book, spanning the years 1954–1956, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 2: 1957–1961
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
This book, spanning the years 1957–1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 3: 1962–1964
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
This book, spanning the years 1961–1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. Most of the documents are ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 4: 1965–1967
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
This book, spanning the years 1965–1967 – the years leading up to and culminating in the June 1967 Six-Day War – is the fourth in a four-volume collection of documents from the Russian Federation and the Israeli State Archive portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel. ...
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Parts 1–4
1st Edition
Edited
By Yaacov Ro'i, Yehoshua Freundlich, Boris Morozov
May 20, 2025
These volumes bring together key documents detailing Israeli-Soviet relations between 1954 and 1967. A very significant and turbulent period is covered, during which there was a steady deterioration in Soviet-Israeli relations, culminating in their severance following the Six Day War in 1967. They ...