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81. Chechnya - Russia's 'War on Terror'

    By John Russell

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    The Russo-Chechen conflict has been the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War. It continues to drag on, despite the fact that it hits the headlines only when there is some 'terrorist spectacular'. Providing a comprehensive overview of the war and the issues connected with it, the...

    Published November 27th 2008 by Routledge
82. Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia

    By Sarah Oates

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    Sarah Oates gives a detailed examination on a central theme in political science: the relationship between democracy and the mass media. This significant book contains a wealth of information and data, including: public opinion surveys, content analysis of television news, focus...

    Published January 17th 2008 by Routledge
83. Post-Soviet Civil Society

    Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States

    By Anders Uhlin

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    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. Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil...

    Published October 23rd 2007 by Routledge
84. Performing Russia

    Folk Revival and Russian Identity

    By Laura Olson

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book 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. Above all...

    Published January 21st 2004 by Routledge
85. Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russianness

    A New Perspective on Unity and Brotherhood

    By Sarah Hudspith

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book examines Dostoevsky's interest in, and engagement with, "Slavophilism" - a Russian mid-nineteenth century movement of conservative nationalist thought. It explores Dostoevsky's views, as expressed in both his non-fiction and fiction, on the religious, spiritual and moral ideas which he...

    Published September 10th 2003 by Routledge
86. Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe

    By Jason Sharman

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe. Looking in detail at Soviet collectivisation in 1928-34, the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and the Polish Solidarity Movement of 1980-84, it shows how the system excluded channels...

    Published June 25th 2003 by Routledge
87. Political Elites and the New Russia

    The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes

    By Anton Steen

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    Political Elite and the New Russia convincingly argues that although reforms in Russia have been initiated by those close to the President, in fact local and national elites have been the crucial strategic actors in reshaping Russia's economy, democratising its political system and decentralising...

    Published June 25th 2003 by Routledge
88. Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation

    Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

    Edited by Simon Smith

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    Post-communist transformation in the former Soviet bloc has had a profound effect, not just in the political and economic sphere, but on all aspects of life. Although a great deal has been written about transformation, much of it has been about transformation viewed from the top, and little has...

    Published May 21st 2003 by Routledge
89. Political Parties in the Russian Regions

    By Derek S. Hutcheson

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's party system has suffered a difficult and turbulent infancy. Moscow based parties have had only very limited territorial penetration, and fragmentation has been one of its most significant features.Based on extensive fieldwork in three...

    Published April 30th 2003 by Routledge
90. Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000

    By Roman Wolczuk

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    This book analyses Ukraine's relations with each of its neighbours in the 1990s. It examines the degree to which these relations fitted into Ukraine's broad objective of reorienting its key political ties from East to West, and asseses the extent to which Ukraine succeeded in achieving this...

    Published October 16th 2002 by Routledge