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Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series


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The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian and East European Studies.

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Disinformation, Narratives and Memory Politics in Russia and Belarus

Disinformation, Narratives and Memory Politics in Russia and Belarus

1st Edition

Edited By Agnieszka Legucka, Robert Kupiecki
January 29, 2024

This book examines the ways in which Russia and Belarus use disinformation, "weaponised" historical narratives, and the politics of memory for domestic and foreign policy purposes, utilising these factors to justify aggressive foreign policy in defensive terms and, domestically, for legitimating ...

Innovation and Modernisation in Contemporary Russia Science Towns, Technology Parks and Very Limited Success

Innovation and Modernisation in Contemporary Russia: Science Towns, Technology Parks and Very Limited Success

1st Edition

By Imogen Sophie Kristin Wade
January 29, 2024

This book examines how technological modernisation and innovation policies have been implemented in Russia from the Soviet era to the present day. It discusses how since about 2000 the Russian state has attempted to address the country’s excessive dependence on natural resources by implementing an ...

Stalin’s Early Cold War Foreign Policy Southern Neighbours in the Shadow of Moscow, 1945-1947

Stalin’s Early Cold War Foreign Policy: Southern Neighbours in the Shadow of Moscow, 1945-1947

1st Edition

By Jamil Hasanli
January 29, 2024

Immediately after the Allied WW2 victory in Europe, claims were made by the Soviet Union over the eastern regions of Turkey, to secure direct control over the Bosporus, Dardanelles, and Turkish Straits. The detailed study of the international components of these events, featuring the veiled ...

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Historical and Political Perspectives

The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Historical and Political Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By M. Hakan Yavuz, Michael Gunter
January 29, 2024

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the long-running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian-majority region of Azerbaijan. It outlines the historical development of the dispute, explores the political and social aspects of the conflict, ...

Exploring Russia’s Exceptionalism in International Politics

Exploring Russia’s Exceptionalism in International Politics

1st Edition

Edited By Raymond Taras
December 19, 2023

This book explores Russia’s sense of its own uniqueness and the impact this has had on Russia’s conduct of international relations. Examining concepts such as Russia’s special civilising mission, its difference from the West, its proneness to conduct violent warfare, and more, and discussing these ...

Reassessing Russia's Security Policy

Reassessing Russia's Security Policy

1st Edition

By Nurlan Aliyev
December 11, 2023

This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of Russia’s security policy. Based on extensive original research, including an analysis of official documents, political and military elite speeches, interviews, and reports, and considering the subject from the early 20th century onward, the...

Media and Masculinities in Contemporary Russia Constructing Non-heteronormativity

Media and Masculinities in Contemporary Russia: Constructing Non-heteronormativity

1st Edition

By Olga Andreevskikh
December 01, 2023

Based on extensive original research, this book examines the extent to which media in Russia upholds the Russian government’s stance on sexuality. It considers the Russian government’s policies designed to uphold ‘traditional sexuality’, reveals the strategies of resistance used by Russian media ...

Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

Russia and Latvia: A Case of Sharp Power

1st Edition

By Andis Kudors
November 17, 2023

This book explores Russia’s relations with Latvia, arguing that Latvia, with a higher proportion of Russian speakers than other Baltic states, is especially vulnerable to Russia’s “sharp power”.  The book highlights how authoritarian and totalitarian regimes are unable to exercise soft power based ...

Queering Russian Media and Culture

Queering Russian Media and Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Galina Miazhevich
September 25, 2023

This book explores how queerness and representations of queerness in media and culture are responding to the shifting socio-political, cultural and legal conditions in post-Soviet Russia, especially in the light of the so-called ‘antigay’ law of 2013. Based on extensive original research, the book ...

Shamanism in Siberia Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

Shamanism in Siberia: Sound and Turbulence in Cursing Practices in Tuva

1st Edition

By Mally Stelmaszyk
September 25, 2023

The focus of this book is on the phenomenon of cursing in shamanic practice and everyday life in Tuva, a former Soviet republic in Siberia. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork where the author interacted with a wide range of people involved in cursing practices, the book examines Tuvans’ ...

Tatarstan's Autonomy within Putin's Russia Minority Elites, Ethnic Mobilization, and Sovereignty

Tatarstan's Autonomy within Putin's Russia: Minority Elites, Ethnic Mobilization, and Sovereignty

1st Edition

By Deniz Dinç
September 25, 2023

This book explores how the Volga Tatars, the largest ethnic minority within the Russian Federation, a Muslim minority, achieved a great deal of autonomy for Tatarstan in the years 1988 to 1992, but then lost this autonomy gradually over the course of the Putin era. It sets the issue in context, ...

The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics Secession, Integration, and Homeland

The Russian Minorities in the Former Soviet Republics: Secession, Integration, and Homeland

1st Edition

By Anna Batta
September 25, 2023

This book explores the differing treatment of Russian minorities in the non-Russian republics which seceded from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Providing detailed case studies, it explains why intervention by Russia occurred in the case of Ukraine, despite Ukraine’s benevolent and inclusive ...

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