Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
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
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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...
The Soviet Union - Federation or Empire?
1st Edition
By Tania Raffass
May 31, 2017
The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation, but really an empire, liable to break up when individual federal units, which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units, sought independence. This book questions this interpretation, revisiting the theory of federation, and ...
Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War
1st Edition
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By Michael Kemper, Artemy Kalinovsky
May 25, 2017
Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different circumstances. This book, on the other hand, argues ...
The Warsaw Pact Reconsidered: International Relations in Eastern Europe, 1955-1969
1st Edition
By Laurien Crump
May 25, 2017
The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance, in which the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members gained considerable scope for manoeuvre. This book examines to what extent the Warsaw Pact ...
Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911–1924: Buddhism, Socialism and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building
1st Edition
By Ivan Sablin
May 24, 2017
The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the independent ...
Brezhnev and the Decline of the Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Thomas Crump
April 27, 2016
Leonid Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet Union from 1964-1982, a longer period than any other Soviet leader apart from Stalin. During Brezhnev’s time Soviet power seemed at its height and increasing. Living standards were rising, the Soviet Union was a nuclear power and successful in its space ...
Women and Transformation in Russia
1st Edition
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By Aino Saarinen, Kirsti Ekonen, Valentina Uspenskaia
April 27, 2016
This book looks at Russian women’s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation, the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th – 21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations, it focuses on both the continuities and breaks and, importantly,...
Jewish Women Writers in the Soviet Union
1st Edition
By Rina Lapidus
March 03, 2016
This book presents the lives and works of eleven Jewish women authors who lived in the Soviet Union, and who wrote and published their works in Russian. The works include poems, novels, memoirs and other writing. The book provides an overview of the life of each author, an overview of each author’s...