Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
Soviet Climate Change Science: Domestic Debates, International Collaboration and Future Climates
1st Edition
By Jonathan D. Oldfield, Vladimir Jankovic, Katja Doose, Nina Kruglikova, Denis J.B. Shaw, Julia Lajus
November 10, 2025
Soviet Climate Change Science explores the character and range of Soviet contributions to the emerging understanding of large-scale anthropogenic climate change during the post-1945 period. More specifically, it examines the role of Soviet scientists in helping to shape the debate, both ...
Russian Radical Right in Exile, 1918-1945: Without the Tsar and Fatherland
1st Edition
Edited
By Zbyněk Vydra
June 30, 2025
This book examines the development of the Russian radical right in exile between 1918 and 1945. The radical right, which represented one of the most prominent groups of Russian political exiles, both continued its pre-revolutionary activities and at the same time was inspired by new ideologies of ...
Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Ivan Sablin
June 27, 2025
This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms “parliament” and “parliamentarism” in the different historical and discursive contexts of the late Russian Empire, revolutionary and Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union. It discusses those institutions referred to as parliaments by ...
Russian Pogroms and Jewish Revolution, 1905: Class, Ethnicity, Autocracy in the First Russian Revolution
1st Edition
By Gerald D. Surh
May 06, 2025
This book, based on extensive original research, examines the widespread and violent pogroms against Jews which took place in the Russian Empire in 1905. It briefly surveys the earlier history of Jews in the Russian Empire and the discriminatory policies against them. The work outlines the extent ...
The Early Slavs: The First Centuries of Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Susana Torres Prieto
March 31, 2025
This book presents an introductory and comprehensive history of the Slavic-speaking peoples who inhabited Eastern and Southern Europe during the 700-year period stretching from the first archaeological and historical records to the establishment of their first organised polities. The book is ...
Lithuanian Society in Transition: Social Transformations and Generational Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Laima Zilinskiene, Sigita Kraniauskiene, Melanie Ilic
December 31, 2024
Lithuanian Society in Transition examines the life experiences formed during the process of post-socialist transformation in Lithuania by analysing the peculiarities of the life course of the cohort of young people born between 1980 and 2000. This book considers how various different ...
Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia: Texts and Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Susana Torres Prieto, Andrei Franklin
October 07, 2024
Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The emergence of new states forced a rethinking of many aspects of the history and culture of the early East Slavs as the subject became increasingly disentangled from the umbrella of ...
Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By W. John Morgan
September 30, 2024
Cultural Cold Wars and UNESCO in the Twentieth Century addresses the now-considerable interest in the concept of cultural cold war as a means of advancing ideologies. The book charts the development of the concept in the twentieth century. Structured in two parts, Part I considers the League of ...
The Warsaw Pact, 1985-1991- Disintegration and Dissolution
1st Edition
By Matej Bily
August 26, 2024
This book analyzes the last phase of the Warsaw Pact based on unusually large-scale archival research conducted in many countries. Focusing on the changes in the organization’s functioning after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, the author examines the role played by the Warsaw ...
Italy, Yugoslavia, and the Controversy over the Adriatic Region, 1915-1920: Strategic Expectations and Geopolitical Realities in the Aftermath of the Great War
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefano Bianchini
August 16, 2024
This book explores the path that led to the Treaty of Rapallo (1920) between Italy and the new Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, in the aftermath of the First World War, when the territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire were allotted to new and ...
Muslim Reformers and the Bolsheviks: The Case of Daghestan
1st Edition
By Naira. E Sahakyan
January 29, 2024
This book explores how the Muslim scholars of Daghestan, an important Muslim region within Russia, experienced the 1917 Russian Revolution and how they attempted to gain religious and political authority in the new post-imperial environment. Covering the period between the February Revolution and ...
Russia in Manchuria: A Problem of Empire
1st Edition
By Paul Dukes
September 25, 2023
Manchuria, the name given to China’s North-eastern provinces by foreign powers, has been contested by China, Russia and Japan in particular over many centuries. This book surveys the history of Manchuria, focusing particularly on the Russian and Soviet perspective. It outlines early colonisation of...