This book analyses how war and bordering impacts daily life and mobility and immobility tactics. It brings to light the memories of people who were displaced from Ukraines eastern regions because of Russian aggression against Ukraine started in 2...Daugiau...
Charting the life and writings of Wladyslaw Bienkowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism...Daugiau...
This book explores Russian independent music - nezavisimaia muzyka - in a time of profound transformations in Russian society, looking especially at the mutual influence between music and the socio-political context in which it was created. Contrary...Daugiau...
This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Based on a broad range of new sources on the daily life of religious communities, including materi...Daugiau...
This book presents an investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s resulted in Russia plunging into the poverty trap. The goal of this book is to determine whether and ho...Daugiau...
This book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores how there has been an upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime, aiming to retain the Soviet le...Daugiau...
This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hungary. It argues these capitalist relations are crucial to understanding the economic aspects of this...Daugiau...
Written for early-career scholars still in the planning stages of their research, this book explores some of the challenges researchers face when conducting fieldwork in the former Soviet region. Written for early-career scholars s...Daugiau...
This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a variety of battlefields, including social media, online news, and television. It outlines how Russian cinema has been instrumentaliz...Daugiau...
The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contras...Daugiau...
This book presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museumskraevedschskyi museumsin Russias regions. It outlines how numerous such museums are, how long they have existed, what they display, and ho...Daugiau...
A key question for the contemporary world: What is Putins ideology? This book analyses this ideology, which it terms Putinism. It examines a range of factors that feed into the ideology conservative thought in Russia from the nineteenth centu...Daugiau...
What is Putins ideology? is a key question for the contemporary world. This book analyses this ideology, which it terms Putinism. It examines a range of factors which feed into the ideology--conservative thought in Russia from the nineteenth cent...Daugiau...
This book examines what came to determine the local power and character of the Communist party-state at the level of the national non-Russian republics. This book examines what came to determine the local power and character of the...Daugiau...
This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what the Kremlin is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay atten...Daugiau...
Over the course of the nineteenth century Siberia developed a fearsome reputation as a place of exile, often imagined as a vast penal colony and seen as a symbol of the iniquities of autocratic and totalitarian Tsarist rule. ...Daugiau...
This book discusses the diverse practices and discourses of memory politics in Russia and Eastern Europe. It argues that currently prevailing conservativism has a long tradition, which continued even in Communist times, and is different to conserv...Daugiau...
This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Based on a broad range of new sources on the daily life of religious communities, including material...Daugiau...
This book examines why, when the conflict in eastern Ukraine began in 2014, fighting broke out in the Donetsk region, whereas it did not in Kharkiv city, despite the city, like the Donetsk region, being geographically proximate to Russia and sim...Daugiau...
This book examines how Russias entrepreneurs operate in a business environment beset with risk and uncertainty. The challenges they may encounter include an unreliable judicial system, insecure property rights, arbitrary interference from officia...Daugiau...
