Bücher der Reihe BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

Examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia. This book discusses how Vladimir Putin has re-asserted the power of the centre in Russia, and tightened the federal government's control of the regions. It shows how, contrary to his rhetoric about developing Russia as a free and democratic state, authoritarianism has been extended.

Examines the process whereby the Communist Party lost power in Poland, setting out the sequence of events, and examining the strategies of the political groupings prior to the election of June 1989. This book shows that on many occasions, PZPR decision-makers ignored expert advice, and many Round Table bargains went against the party's interests.

Addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia. This book focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera in the city of Saratov on the Volga. It explains why a medical and social disaster that had long since been overcome in other parts of Europe continued much later in Russia.

Examines the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia. This book focuses on one of the most important and influential groups of Russian intellectuals - the 1960s generation or 'Sixtiers' - who devoted their lives to defending 'socialism with a human face', authored "Perestroika", and were subsequently demonized when the reforms failed.

This volume examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods.

Based on research in previously unexplored sources, including the party archives, this book provides information on the disintegration of the Soviet communist party, in 1991 and the preceding years. It argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the party was reformable in late Soviet times, but that attempts to reform it failed.

The countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have attempted to address the numerous human rights abuses that characterized the decades of communist rule. This book examines the main processes of transitional justice that permitted societies in those countries to come to terms with their recent past.

In the wake of the Crimean War, the Russian autocracy renovated its most basic social, political and economic systems by emancipating some 23 million privately-owned serfs. This book examines the emancipation of the serfs, focusing on the mechanisms used to enact the reforms and the implications for Russian politics and society in the long term.

Examines the relationship between the Russian Communist Party and working class in the years after the revolution and civil war. This book shows that the working class was politically expropriated by the Bolshevik party, as democratic bodies such as soviets and factory committees were deprived of decision-making power.

Examines television culture in Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin. This book is suitable for those who wish to understand contemporary Russian society.

The Russo-Chechen conflict has been the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War. Providing an overview of the war and the issues connected with it, this book examines the origins of the conflict and traces how both sides were dragged inexorably into war in the early 1990s. It discusses the two wars and the intervening truce.

Examines the transformation of the state in Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism and adoption of market oriented reform in the early 1990s, exploring the impact of globalization and economic liberalization on the region's states, societies and political economy.

Argues that contrary to contemporary Lithuanian nationalist rhetoric - Lithuanian nationalism was modern and socially constructed in the period from the emergence of the Lithuanian national movement in the late nineteenth century to the birth of an independent state in 1918.

Examines the development of big business in Russia since the early 1990s, explaining how post-Soviet enterprises - many of which made little sense as business units - were restructured into functional firms. This title includes case studies of three leading companies: Yukos Oil Company, Siberian (Russian) Aluminium and Norilsk Nickel.

Russians were among the colonizers of the Old World, settling across Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia. This book examines the policies, practices, cultural representations, and experiences of Slavic settlement in non-Russian regions of Eurasia from the time of Ivan the Terrible.

Initial hopes that after the fall of the Soviet Union democracy and human rights would flourish strongly in Russia have begun to fade. This book explores what went wrong in Russia and why.

The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind. This work presents a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders.

In 1920, Lenin authorized a plan to transform Karelia into a showcase Soviet autonomous region, to show what could be achieved by socialist nationalities policy and economic planning. This book traces the evolution of Soviet Karelia in the Soviet period and discusses how political relations between Moscow and the regional leadership changed.

Provides an examination of Russia's relations with China and Japan. This book is intended not only for specialists on Russian politics and foreign policy, but also for international relations scholars.

Examines the role of the Socialist Revolutionary party, which had been the largest and most popular party in Russia in 1917, and shows how, after the October revolution, rather than disappearing, led by its leadership in exile, it continued to observe and comment on developments in Russia.

Discusses the development of mass media in Russia since the end of Communism and the collapse of the Soviet Union. This book analyzes the impact of the Putin presidency, including the ways in which the media have constructed Putin's image in order to consolidate his power and their role in securing his election victories in 2000 and 2004.

The Russian State and Russiäs Energy Industries analyses the development of relations between the state and five major energy companies, and how this shaped Russiäs foreign policy in the post-Soviet region.