Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
About the Book Series
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.
The Russian Economy under Putin
1st Edition
Edited
By Torbjörn Becker, Susanne Oxenstierna
June 30, 2020
This book presents a comprehensive view of the state of the Russian economy under President Putin. It considers the extent of Russia’s integration in the world economy, where Russia’s exports of oil and gas are a key factor, discusses Russia’s internal challenges, including changing demographics, ...
Russia's Regional Identities: The Power of the Provinces
1st Edition
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By Edith Clowes, Gisela Erbslöh, Ani Kokobobo
May 07, 2020
Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralised regime based in Moscow, with dependent provinces, made subservient by Putin’s policies limiting regional autonomy. This book, however, demonstrates that beyond this largely political view, by looking at Russia’s regions more in cultural and ...
Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia
1st Edition
By W. John Morgan, Irina N. Trofimova, Grigori A. Kliucharev
April 28, 2020
Civil Society, Social Change and a New Popular Education in Russia is a detailed account of contemporary issues that draws upon recent survey research conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from secondary published work in both Russian and English. The book...
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
1st Edition
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By Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, Sanna Turoma
December 12, 2019
Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by ...
Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life
1st Edition
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By Abel Polese, Jeremy Morris, Emilia Pawłusz, Oleksandra Seliverstova
December 12, 2019
This book explores the function of the “everyday” in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. Based on extensive original research including fieldwork, the book demonstrates how the study of everyday and mundane ...
Reforming the Russian Industrial Workplace: International Management Standards meet the Soviet Legacy
1st Edition
By Elena Shulzhenko
December 12, 2019
Based on extensive original research, this book explores how far the Soviet pattern of industrial workplace organisation, characterised by a high level of management discretion, authoritarian control and the use of punitive methods on the shop-floor, has been replaced by internationally ...
Ruptures and Continuities in Soviet/Russian Cinema: Styles, characters and genres before and after the collapse of the USSR
1st Edition
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By Birgit Beumers, Eugenie Zvonkine
December 12, 2019
This book, based on extensive original research, examines how far the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a threshold that initiated change or whether there are continuities which gradually reshaped cinema in the new Russia. The book considers a wide range of films and film-makers and explores...
Russia - Art Resistance and the Conservative-Authoritarian Zeitgeist
1st Edition
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By Lena Jonson, Andrei Erofeev
December 12, 2019
This book explores how artistic strategies of resistance have survived under the conservative-authoritarian regime which has been in place in Russia since 2012. It discusses the conditions under which artists work as the state spells out a new state cultural policy, aesthetics change and the state ...
Women in Soviet Film: The Thaw and Post-Thaw Periods
1st Edition
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By Marina Rojavin, Tim Harte
December 12, 2019
This book illuminates and explores the representation of women in Soviet cinema from the late 1950s, through the 1960s, and into the 1970s, a period when Soviet culture shifted away, to varying degrees, from the well-established conventions of socialist realism. Covering films about working ...
Gender Inequality in the Eastern European Labour Market: Twenty-five years of transition since the fall of communism
1st Edition
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By Giovanni Razzu
April 20, 2018
Under communism there was, in the countries of Eastern Europe, a high level of gender equality in the labour market, particularly in terms of high participation rates by women. The transition from communism has upset this situation, with different impacts in the different countries. This book ...
Migrant Workers in Russia: Global Challenges of the Shadow Economy in Societal Transformation
1st Edition
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By Anna-Liisa Heusala, Kaarina Aitamurto
April 09, 2018
Russia has a very large pool of economic migrants, up to 25% of the workforce according to some estimates. Although many migrants, many from former Soviet countries which are now independent, entered Russia legally, they frequently face bureaucratic obstacles to legal employment and Russian ...
Russian Aviation, Space Flight and Visual Culture
1st Edition
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By Vlad Strukov, Helena Goscilo
April 09, 2018
Among the many successes of the Soviet Union were inaugural space flight—ahead of the United States—and many other triumphs related to aviation. Aviators and cosmonauts enjoyed heroic status in the Soviet Union, and provided supports of the Soviet project with iconic figures which could be used to ...