Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Russia and the Cult of State Security

   The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin

   By Julie Fedor

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book explores the mythology woven around the Soviet secret police and the Russian cult of state security that has emerged from it. Tracing the history of this mythology from the Soviet period through to its revival in contemporary post-Soviet Russia, the volume argues that successive Russian...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience

   Untying the Kurillian Knot

   Edited by Kimie Hara, Geoffrey Jukes

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This volume is the fruit of an international collaborative study, which considers the Åland islands settlement in northern Europe as a resolution model for the major Asia-Pacific regional conflicts that derived from the post-World War II disposition of Japan, with particular focus on the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. Democratic Revolution in Ukraine

   From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution

   Edited by Taras Kuzio

   In 2000 a beheaded journalist was found in a remote forest near Kyiv. The corpse led to a scandal when it was revealed that it was that of a journalist critical of the authorities. The President was heard on tapes, made covertly in his office, ordering violence to be undertaken against the...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Rural Women in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia

   By Liubov Denisova

   Edited by Irina Mukhina

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Russian Mass Media and Changing Values

   Edited by Arja Rosenholm, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Elena Trubina

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the many complex processes taking place in the field of contemporary Russian media and popular culture. Russian social and cultural life today is strongly individualised and consumers are offered innumerable alternatives; but at the same time options...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia

   By Tina Burrett

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

   As a new president takes power in Russia, this book provides an analysis of the changing relationship between control of Russian television media and presidential power during the tenure of President Vladimir Putin. It argues that the conflicts within Russia’s political and economic elites, and...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. Exiled to Palestine

   The Emigration of Soviet Zionist Convicts, 1924-1934

   By Ziva Galili, Boris Morozov

   Series: Cummings Center Series

   This is the unknown story of how Zionists imprisoned by Soviet authorities were allowed to choose sentences of permanent departure to Palestine, where they helped build Jewish society, the backbone of left-wing parties, and the powerful trade union movement. These leading authors bring to light...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
10. Khrushchev in the Kremlin

    Policy and Government in the Soviet Union, 1953–64

    Edited by Jeremy Smith, Melanie Ilic

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

    This book presents a new picture of the politics, economics and process of government in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. Based in large part on original research in recently declassified archive collections, the book examines the full complexity of government, including...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge