Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Bear Traps on Russia's Road to Modernization

   By Clifford Gaddy, Barry Ickes

   Bear Traps examines Russia’s longer term economic growth prospects. It argues that Russia’s growth challenges are conventionally misdiagnosed and examines the reasons why: a spatial misallocation that imposes excess costs on production and investment; distortions to human capital; an excessively...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition

   Edited by Paul Hare, Gerard Turley

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times. As more than two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia

   Edited by Louise Shelley, Erik R. Scott, Anthony Latta

   Series: Routledge Transnational Crime and Corruption

   Georgia is one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden nations of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, Georgians played a major role in organized crime groups and the shadow economy operating throughout the Soviet Union, and in the post-Soviet period, Georgia continues to be important source...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Russia after 2012

   From Putin to Medvedev to Putin – Continuity, Change, or Revolution?

   Edited by J.L. Black, Michael Johns

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book provides an overview of the state of Russia after the 2012 presidential election. It considers a wide range of both domestic and international issues, examining both the run up to and the consequences of the election. It covers political, economic, and social topics. It assesses the...

   Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge
5. Post-Communist Poland – Contested Pasts and Future Identities

   By Ewa Ochman

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

   This book explores the reinterpretations of Poland’s past which have been undertaken by Polish national and local elites since the fall of communism. It focuses on remembrance practices and traces the de-commemorating of communism to examine the ways in which collective remembering and forgetting...

   Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
6. Eastern Partnership: A New Opportunity for the Neighbours?

   Edited by Elena Korosteleva

   This volume offers a collective assessment of the development and impact of the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Eastern Partnership Initiative on its eastern neighbours - Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova in particular, with Russia’s added perspective. Founded on extensive empirical and conceptual...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Russia and the World

   The Internal-External Nexus

   Edited by Natasha Kuhrt

   Series: Routledge Europe-Asia Studies

   This volume brings together analyses of key domestic, foreign and security policy issues during the Putin and Medvedev administrations. Indeed, the chapters demonstrate the extent to which domestic and foreign policy issues are inextricably linked, in particular in the domain of security, whether '...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. Gorbachev and Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

   By Leszek Buszynski

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1992, this book examines Soviet foreign policy towards Southeast Asia in the context of the transformation of the perestroika era in the Soviet Union. The discussion begins in 1985 and ends in 1989 with the Soviet partial withdrawal from Cam Ranh Bay. Buszynski...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Soviet Foreign Policy and Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

   By Leszek Buszynski

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This book focuses on the activity of the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia and the effects of Soviet policy on the region from 1969 to the time of first publication in 1986. In particular, Leszek Buszynski examines the rivalry between the Soviet Union and China, Soviet presence in Vietnam, and the...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. What is Asia to Us? (Routledge Revivals)

    Russia's Asian Heartland Yesterday and Today

    By Milan Hauner

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    This book, first published in 1990, considers the uneasy relationship between Russia and Soviet Central Asia. Chapters examine both the significance of Asia to the Russian mind and the place that Asia has occupied in Russian geopolitical thinking in the last hundred years, showing that outbreaks of...

    Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge