Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Laima Zilinskiene, Melanie Ilic
September 25, 2023
This book explores the impact on different generations of Lithuanians of the fifty-year Soviet modernisation project which was implemented in Lithuania from 1940 to 1991. It reveals the specific characteristics of ‘the last Soviet generation’, born in the 1970s, and sets this generation apart from ...
The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change: Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction
1st Edition
By Jonathan D. Oldfield
January 09, 2023
This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between humankind and the Earth system. It considers how ...
Russian Peasant Bride Theft
1st Edition
By John Bushnell
September 26, 2022
This book explores the history of Russian peasant bride theft - abduction, capture - from the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus in the late tenth century to the very early twentieth century. It argues that bride theft in eighteenth and nineteenth century Russia was practised in large part by, ...
Late Tsarist Russia, 1881–1913
1st Edition
By Beryl Williams
May 06, 2022
This book brings together the large volume of work on late Tsarist Russia published over the last 30 years, to show an overall picture of Russia under the last two tsars - before the war brought down not only the Russian empire but also those of Germany, Austria–Hungary and Turkey. It turns the ...
Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis
1st Edition
By Amanda DiGioia
April 29, 2022
This book, written from a feminist perspective, uses the focus of duelling to discuss the nature of masculinity in Russia. It traces the development of duelling and masculinity historically from the time of Peter the Great onwards, considers how duelling and masculinity have been represented in ...
Women's Experiences of Repression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Kelly Hignett, Melanie Ilic, Dalia Leinarte, Corina Snitar
December 12, 2019
Based on extensive original research, including studies of autobiographies and biographies, reminiscences and memoirs, archived oral history data and interviews conducted by the authors, this book provides a rich picture of how women experienced repression in the former Soviet bloc. Although ...
The Politics of Culture in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1920-40
1st Edition
By Audrey Altstadt
January 12, 2018
The early Soviet Union’s nationalities policy involved the formation of many national republics, within which "nation building" and "modernization" were undertaken for the benefit of "backward" peoples. This book, in considering how such policies were implemented in Azerbaijan, argues that the ...
The Russian Liberals and the Revolution of 1905
1st Edition
By Peter Enticott
January 12, 2018
There is a widespread notion that Russia is forever fated to be an authoritarian country where liberalism and democracy can never make real progress. However, at the beginning of the twentieth century there was an extremely influential “liberationist” movement which culminated in the formation of a...
The Vernaculars of Communism: Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
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By Petre Petrov, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
October 13, 2017
The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so ...
Competition in Socialist Society
1st Edition
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By Katalin Miklóssy, Melanie Ilic
October 12, 2017
This book explores how the concept of "competition", which is usually associated with market economies, operated under state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where the socialist system, based on command economic planning and state-centred control over society, was supposed to ...
Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia
1st Edition
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By Tomasz Kamusella, James Bjork, Timothy Wilson, Anna Novikov
October 12, 2017
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, Upper Silesia was the site of the largest formal exercise in self-determination in European history, the 1921 Plebiscite. This asked the inhabitants of Europe’s second largest industrial region the deceptively straightforward question of whether ...
Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in the Second World War
1st Edition
By Rina Lapidus
October 12, 2017
This book deals with the work of fifteen young Jewish poets who were killed, died of wounds, or were executed in captivity while serving in the Red Army in the Second World War. All were young, all were poets, most were thoroughly assimilated into Soviet society whilst at the same time being rooted...