Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
Modernizing Muscovy: Reform and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Russia
1st Edition
Edited
By Jarmo Kotilaine, Marshall Poe
February 29, 2016
First Published in 2004. Modernizing Muscovy is a comprehensive account of seventeenth-centuryRussian history. It rejects the traditional interpretation of this era as the twilightof the Russian Middle Ages. By revealing important instances of dynamicchange in the late Muscovite state, economy, and...
Life Stories of Soviet Women: The Interwar Generation
1st Edition
By Melanie Ilic
December 07, 2015
This book provides a rich picture of what everyday life was like for women in Soviet times by presenting the life stories of eight women who were born in the interwar period. The life stories are told through interviews with the women who were well educated and well placed in Soviet society, often ...
Reassessing Cold War Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sari Autio-Sarasmo, Katalin Miklóssy
February 13, 2013
This book presents a comprehensive reassessment of Europe in the Cold War period, 1945-91. Contrary to popular belief, it shows that relations between East and West were based not only on confrontation and mutual distrust, but also on collaboration. The authors reveal that - despite opposing ...
Soviet Eastern Policy and Turkey, 1920-1991: Soviet Foreign Policy, Turkey and Communism
1st Edition
By Bulent Gokay
November 28, 2012
This is an impressive work that traces the relationship between the Soviet Union and Turkey on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and the Turkish Communist Party on the other, from the consolidation of the communist regime in Moscow until its fall. The book considers how '...
The USA in the Making of the USSR: The Washington Conference 1921-22 and 'Uninvited Russia'
1st Edition
By Paul Dukes
July 11, 2012
The USA's contribution to the making of the USSR was accidental. In the belief that the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic could not survive, American statesmen strove to keep the former Tsarist empire intact for a non-communist successor regime in the face of attempts by other powers to ...
Russian Military Intelligence in the War with Japan, 1904-05: Secret Operations on Land and at Sea
1st Edition
By Evgeny Sergeev
June 13, 2012
Examining Russian military intelligence in the war with Japan of 1904-05, this book, based on newly-accessible documents from the tsarist era military, naval and diplomatic archives, gives an overview of the origins, structure and performance of Russian military intelligence in the Far East at the ...
The Caucasus Under Soviet Rule
1st Edition
By Alex Marshall
March 29, 2012
The Caucasus is a strategically and economically important region in contemporary global affairs. Western interest in the Caucasus has grown rapidly since 1991, fuelled by the admixture of oil politics, great power rivalry, ethnic separatism and terrorism that characterizes the region. However, ...
The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917
1st Edition
By Alex Marshall
February 29, 2012
This new book examines the role of the Tsarist General Staff in studying and administering Russia’s Asian borderlands. It considers the nature of the Imperial Russian state, the institutional characteristics of the General Staff, and Russia’s relationship with Asia. During the nineteenth century, ...
Eastern Christianity and the Cold War, 1945-91
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucian N. Leustean
May 13, 2011
Despite widespread persecution, Orthodox churches not only survived the Cold War period but levels of religiosity in Orthodox countries remained significant. This book examines the often surprising relations between Orthodox churches and political regimes. It provides a comprehensive overview of ...
Popular Religion in Russia: 'Double Belief' and the Making of an Academic Myth
1st Edition
By Stella Rock
May 14, 2009
This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing the medieval origins of the term, have often portrayed Russian Christianity as uniquely muddied by ...
Cossacks and the Russian Empire, 1598–1725: Manipulation, Rebellion and Expansion into Siberia
1st Edition
By Christoph Witzenrath
April 03, 2009
Using a wide range sources, this book explores the ways in which the Russians governed their empire in Siberia from 1598 to 1725. Paying particular attention to the role of the Siberian Cossaks, the author takes a thorough assessment of how the institutions of imperial government functioned in ...
The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs
1st Edition
By Wendy Slater
August 06, 2007
How did Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar, meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals, Nicholas and his family disappeared from history in the Soviet era. But in the 1970s, a local geologist and a crime fiction writer discovered the location of their ...