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Stable Outside, Fragile Inside?: Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia

by Emilian Kavalski

This timely volume analyses the quality of statehood in Central Asia by assessing the complex dynamics of Central Asian state-making and focusing on the simultaneous patterns of socialization and internalization...


The Politics of Security in Modern Russia

by Mark Galeotti

Fully up-to-date to reflect the evolving Medvedev presidency, the 2008 Georgian war and the impact of the economic downturn, this volume is a much needed objective and balanced examination of the ways in which...


Mass Media and Modern Warfare: Reporting on the Russian War on Terrorism

by Greg Simons

Greg Simons tackles the complicated yet essential role of mass media in society. Taking the Global War on Terror as a prime example, the author adopts a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the various facets...


Public Opinion and the Making of Foreign Policy in the 'New Europe': A Comparative Study of Poland and Ukraine

by Nathaniel Copsey

By drawing a new boundary between the EU and its eastern neighbours, the European Union has since 1989 created a frontier that has been popularly described in the frontier states as the new 'Berlin Wall'. This...


Shaping the Post-Soviet Space?: EU Policies and Approaches to Region-Building

by Laure Delcour

Drawing on a wealth of sources and extensive fieldwork conducted in the Commonwealth of Independent States and interested in exposing why the EU has not pursued a strategy of 'region-building' in the post-Soviet...


The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia

by Vladimir Gel'man & Cameron Ross

International experts on Russian regional politics, including top scholars from Britain, Canada, Russia and the USA, provide critical evaluations of the multiple deficiencies to be found in Russia's sub-national...


Global Trends in Eastern Europe

by Nikolai Genov

In this thought-provoking book, Nikolai Genov presents a systematic description and explanation of Eastern European societal transformations after 1989 as a consequence of global trends.


Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War

by Robert Gellately

A chilling, riveting account based on newly released Russian documentation that reveals Joseph Stalin’s true motives—and the extent of his enduring commitment to expanding the Soviet empire—during the...


Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village

by Serge Schmemann

Tracing the lives of his Russian forebears, Serge Schmemann, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times, tells a remarkable story that spans the past two hundred years of Russian history....


The Detente Deception: Soviet and Western Bloc Competition and the Subversion of Cold War Peace

by Douglas Rivero

This book examines the competition between the Western and Soviet blocs in the less-developed world during the final years of Détente. Rivero assesses if the Soviet bloc pushed for strategic gains in the Third...


The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia

by Agnia Grigas

The Baltic states share similar histories and resources, and face the same geopolitical challenges. All are dependent on Russia for energy yet, as this fascinating study reveals, they have pursued very different...


The Russian Fur Trade, 1550-1700

by Raymond H. Fisher

An overview of the Russian fur trade during the Muscovite period and its role in Russia's economic development. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org)...


Can Russia Change? (Routledge Revivals): The USSR confronts Global Interdependence

by Walter Clemens

First published in 1990, this ground-breaking book sought to determine whether contemporary Russia had the capacity to change and if, in so doing, it could alter the complex web of East-West relations from a...


Encyclopedia of the Cold War

by Ruud van Dijk, William Glenn Gray & Svetlana Savranskaya

Between 1945 and 1991, tension between the USA, its allies, and a group of nations led by the USSR, dominated world politics. This period was called the Cold War - a conflict that stopped short to a full-blown...


The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories and Moral Claims in a Post-War Society

by Bougarel & Helms

Bosnia has become a metaphor for new ethnic nationalisms, for the transformation of warfare in the post-Cold War era, and for new forms of peacekeeping and state-building. Considering both specificities and...


Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamless...


Former People

by Douglas Smith

Epic in scope, precise in detail, and heart-breaking in its human drama, Former People is the first book to recount the history of the aristocracy caught up in the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and...


Expelled

by Luke Harding

In 2007 Luke Harding arrived in Moscow to take up a new job as a correspondent for the British newspaper, The Guardian. Within months, mysterious agents from Russia's Federal Security Service --the successor...


Putin's Russia

by Anna Politkovskaya

A searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from “the bravest of Russian

journalists” (The New York Times)

Hailed as “a lone voice crying out in a moral wilderness” (New Statesman),...


For the Soul of Mankind

by Melvyn P. Leffler

To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policymakers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that had endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did that happen?...