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Russia as a Great Power
Dimensions of Security Under Putin
Av Jakob Hedenskog, Vilhelm Konnander m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
851 kr
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After a period of relative weakness and isolation during most of the 1990s, Russia is again appearing as a major security player in world politics. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Russia's current security situation, addressing such questions as: What kind of player is Russia in …
From German Königsberg to Soviet Kaliningrad
Appropriating Place and Constructing Identity
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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This book explores how the Soviet Union, after capturing and annexing the German East Prussian city of Königsberg in 1945 and renaming it Kaliningrad, worked to transform the city into a model of Soviet modernity. It examines how the Soviets expelled all the remaining German people, repopulated the …
Russia as a Great Power
Dimensions of Security Under Putin
Av Jakob Hedenskog, Vilhelm Konnander m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
3168 kr
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After a period of relative weakness and isolation during most of the 1990s, Russia is again appearing as a major security player in world politics. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Russia's current security situation, addressing such questions as: What kind of player is Russia in …
Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania
Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War
Inbunden, 2013
2586 kr
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Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the …
Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920–24
Soviet Workers and the New Communist Elite
Av Simon Pirani
Häftad, 2009
772 kr
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The Russian revolution of 1917 was a defining event of the twentieth century, and its achievements and failures remain controversial in the twenty-first. This book focuses on the retreat from the revolution’s aims in 1920–24, after the civil war and at the start of the New Economic Policy – and …
Russian Society and the Orthodox Church
Religion in Russia after Communism
Av Zoe Knox
Häftad, 2009
750 kr
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Russian Society and the Orthodox Church examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. It shows how Orthodox prelates, clergy and laity have shaped Russians' attitudes towards religious and ideological pluralism, …
East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism
Av Ulrike Ziemer, Sean P. Roberts
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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Following the demise of the USSR in 1991, and the ensuing collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, widespread population movements took place across Central and Eastern Europe. Whole nations disappeared and (re)-emerged and diasporic transnational ties and belonging have experienced a …
Moscow and the Non-Russian Republics in the Soviet Union
Nomenklatura, Intelligentsia and Centre-Periphery Relations
Av Li Bennich-Björkman, Saulius Grybkauskas
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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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. It discusses how, although the Soviet Union looked centralised and monolithic to outsiders, local party-states formed their own fiefdoms and had …
Soviet Postcolonial Studies
A View from the Western Borderlands
Av Epp Annus
Häftad, 2019
847 kr
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Postcolonial studies is a well-established academic field, rich in theory, but it is based mostly on postcolonial experiences in former West European colonial empires. This book takes a different approach, considering postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc. It both applies …
Putin's Fascists
Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia
Häftad, 2022
502 kr
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The Putin regime and its propagandists have long claimed to be fighting the heirs of Nazi Germany. From its crackdown on domestic dissent to its aggression on the international stage, the Kremlin has regularly smeared its adversaries as fascists and fascist collaborators. Russia's invasion of …
Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought
Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension
Inbunden, 2020
2744 kr
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This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin’s anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, …
Russian Revolution of 1917 - Memory and Legacy
Av Carol S. Leonard, Daniel Orlovsky m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2197 kr
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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 contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in …
Putin's Olympics
The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia
Av Robert W. Orttung, Sufian Zhemukhov
Häftad, 2019
851 kr
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President Vladimir Putin’s Olympic venture put the workings of contemporary Russia on vivid display. The Sochi Olympics were designed to symbolize Russia’s return to great power status, but subsequent aggression against Ukraine, large-scale corruption, and the doping scandal have become the true …
Siberian Exile and the Invention of Revolutionary Russia, 1825–1917
Exiles, Émigrés and the International Reception of Russian Radicalism
Av Ben Phillips
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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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. This book examines how Siberia’s reputation came about and discusses the …
Post-Soviet Armenia
The New National Elite and the New National Narrative
Häftad, 2019
750 kr
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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has struggled to establish itself, with a faltering economy, emigration of the intelligentsia and the weakening of civil society. This book explores how a new national elite has emerged and how it has constructed a new national narrative to suit …
Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World
Recursive Nationhood
Inbunden, 2022
2512 kr
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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 attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the …
From German Königsberg to Soviet Kaliningrad
Appropriating Place and Constructing Identity
Inbunden, 2020
2586 kr
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This book explores how the Soviet Union, after capturing and annexing the German East Prussian city of Königsberg in 1945 and renaming it Kaliningrad, worked to transform the city into a model of Soviet modernity. It examines how the Soviets expelled all the remaining German people, repopulated the …
Politicising the Communist Past
The Politics of Truth Revelation in Post-Communist Poland
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Poland is a particularly interesting case of truth revelation and transitional justice in a post-communist country. This is because of the radical change of trajectory in its approach to dealing with the communist past, and the profound effect this had on Polish politics. The approach moved from …
Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe
Beyond the Transition's Liberal Consensus
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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This book argues that the recent political mobilizations in Eastern Europe have been underpinned by a class struggle between a more conservative and a more radical line of contention. The latter line, the book contends, is designed by and for subaltern groups whose anti-systemic programme calls for …
Inside the East European Planned Economy
State Planning, Factory and Manager
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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This book puts forward a new perspective on the planned economies of communist Eastern Europe, demonstrating in detail how economic practice in such countries was shaped by the interplay among planners, managers and Party apparatchiks. Based on extensive original research, including interviews with …
Political Parties and Religion in Post-Communist Poland
Inbunden, 2025
2512 kr
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This book examines the role of religion and the Catholic Church in post-communist Polish politics. It outlines the special circumstances of Poland, a country with very high levels of religiosity, where the Catholic Church played a crucial role in the process that led to the collapse of communism in …
Putin's Fascists
Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
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The Putin regime and its propagandists have long claimed to be fighting the heirs of Nazi Germany. From its crackdown on domestic dissent to its aggression on the international stage, the Kremlin has regularly smeared its adversaries as fascists and fascist collaborators. Russia's invasion of …
Translating Great Russian Literature
The Penguin Russian Classics
Inbunden, 2021
3156 kr
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Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of …
Making of Kropotkin's Anarchist Thought
Disease, Degeneration, Health and the Bio-political Dimension
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin’s anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the extent that ideas about health, sickness, …
Class Cultures in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
Av ažen Cepić
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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This book investigates the extent to which social class has changed in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses how ideas about class are viewed by both working class and middle class people. The book examines how such people’s social …
Belarus - Alternative Visions
Nation, Memory and Cosmopolitanism
Av Simon Lewis
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Belarus is often regarded as "Europe’s last dictatorship", a sort-of fossilized leftover from the Soviet Union. However, a key factor in determining Belarus’s development, including its likely future development, is its own sense of identity. This book explores the complex debates and competing …
Russian Nationalism
Imaginaries, Doctrines, and Political Battlefields
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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This book, by one of the foremost authorities on the subject, explores the complex nature of Russian nationalism. It examines nationalism as a multilayered and multifaceted repertoire displayed by a myriad of actors. It considers nationalism as various concepts and ideas emphasizing Russia’s …
Belarus under Lukashenka
Adaptive Authoritarianism
Häftad, 2020
742 kr
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This book explores the nature of the regime of Aliaksandr Lukashenka, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, and who is often characterized as "the last dictator in Europe". It discusses how Lukashenka came to power, providing a survey of politics in Belarus in early post-Soviet times, examines how …
Ukraine's Foreign and Security Policy 1991-2000
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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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 …
Governing the Soviet Union's National Republics
The Second Secretaries of the Communist Party
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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Second Secretary of the Central Committee of a Soviet republic does not sound a very important position, but as this book shows it was an extremely important role, one that helped hold the Soviet Union together and helped to keep it going for so long. The key was that Second Secretaries were both …
