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11. Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe

    Essays in Honour of Edmund Mokrzycki

    By Sven Eliaeson

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book explores the idea of civil society and how it is being implemented in Eastern Europe. The implosion of the Russian empire fifteen years ago and the new wave of democratization opened a new field of inquiry. The wide-ranging debate on the transition became focused on a conceptual battle,...

    Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
12. Managing Ethnic Diversity in Russia

    Edited by Oleh Protsyk, Benedikt Harzl

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the norms and practices of ethnic diversity management in the Russian Federation in the last twenty years. It examines the evolution of the legal framework, the institutional architecture and the policies intended to address the large number of...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
13. EU-Russian Border Security

    Challenges, (Mis)Perceptions and Responses

    By Serghei Golunov

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    The land border between Russia and the European Union is one of the longest land borders in the world, with very considerable trade flowing across the border in both directions. This book examines the nature of the EU-Russia border, and the issues connected with its management. It describes the...

    Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
14. The Post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church

    Politics, Culture and Greater Russia

    By Katja Richters

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    In recent years, the Russian Orthodox Church has become a more prominent part of post-Soviet Russia. A number of assumptions exist regarding the Church’s relationship with the Russian state: that the Church has always been dominated by Russia’s secular elites; that the clerics have not sufficiently...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
15. Power and Legitimacy - Challenges from Russia

    Edited by Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund, Elena Namli

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book sheds new light on the continuing debate within political thought as to what constitutes power, and what distinguishes legitimate from illegitimate power. It does so by considering the experience of Russia, a polity where experiences of the legitimacy of power and the collapse of power...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
16. The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia

    The Growing Influence of Western Rightist Ideas

    By Thomas Parland

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book examines the nature of the extreme right in contemporary Russia, arguing in particular that, alongside a continuing tradition which emphasizes Russia's orthodox and traditional past, an increasingly important intellectual current is drawing on Western European neo-fascist ideas and...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
17. Russian Cultural Anthropology after the Collapse of Communism

    Edited by Albert Baiburin, Catriona Kelly, Nikolai Vakhtin

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    In Soviet times, anthropologists in the Soviet Union were closely involved in the state’s work of nation building. They helped define official nationalities, and gathered material about traditional customs and suitably heroic folklore, whilst at the same time refraining from work on the reality of...

    Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge
18. Lenin's Terror

    The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence

    By James Ryan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book explores the development of Lenin’s thinking on violence throughout his career, from the last years of the Tsarist regime in Russia through to the 1920s and the New Economic Policy, and provides an important assessment of the significance of ideological factors for understanding Soviet...

    Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
19. Life in Post-Communist Eastern Europe after EU Membership

    Happy Ever After?

    Edited by Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Vera Sheridan, Sabina Stan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book examines how membership of the European Union has affected life in the ten former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe that are now members of the European Union. It attempts to answer some fundamental questions: Was the reward of EU membership worth the sacrifices made? How...

    Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
20. A Russian Factory Enters the Market Economy

    By Claudio Morrison

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    This book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analysing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian privatised sector during the years of economic...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge