This book presents important research on Russia. Topics discussed herein include the New START Treaty; Russia's accession to the WTO; permanent normal trade relations; human rights practices; food and agricultural import regulations and standards; nuclear arms control; WTO enfor…
Octubre: la historia de la Revolución rusa
by Miéville, China, Miéville, China
fromAkal Anverso
IntroductionPiotr JuszkiewiczPart 1: Forms of Memory and Oblivion1. Dis-Remembered and Mis-Remembered: A Confrontation with Failures of Cultural MemoryMieke Bal2. Matejko. How Did He Do It?Wojciech Suchocki3. The Devotional Image as a Medium of Memory: The Case of the Painting o…
"The breakup of the Soviet Union led to the creation of new states and territorial conflicts of different levels of intensity. Scrutinising the post?Soviet period, this volume offers explanations for both the frequency and the intensity of crises in the region. This book argues …
Putin's Russia: past imperfect, future uncertain
Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis of contemporary Russia. Leading scholars explore the daunting domestic and international problems Russia confronts, considering a comprehensive arra…
This book explains the position of the rebels in Southeastern Ukraine. It follows the rebellion's fortunes after Moscow did not repeat the Crimea scenario in Donbas, analyzes the logic of armed struggle and the phenomenon of the Russian Spring, and introduces prospects for solut…
"Andrzej Stasiuk is a restless and indefatigable traveler. His journeys take him from his native Poland to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Albania, Moldova, and Ukraine. By car, train, bus, ferry. To small towns and villages with unfamiliar-sounding yet strangely evocative…
"In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long effort to expand Russian boundaries and create a pan-Russian nati…
"An illuminating and original collection of essays on 20th Century Russian psychology, offering unparalleled coverage of the scholarship of Vygotsky and his peers. Yasnitsky et al challenges our assumptions about the history of Soviet science and the nature of Soviet Marxism and…
"During the last two centuries, ethnolinguistic nationalism has been the norm of nation and state-building in central Europe. In the current age of borderless cyberspace, regional and minority Slavic languages are freely standardized and used, even when not officially recognized…
"In The Slavic Dossier, Iurie Stamati's objective is to understand the reasons for the emergence of two different discourses on the place of the Slavs on the territory of Moldova and their role in the genesis of Moldovans and their culture during the medieval period in the Sovie…
"This book looks at participants and nonparticipants in the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992-1993 to reveal how ordinary people navigate the uncertainty at the onset of war to arrive at different mobilization decisions, from fleeing to fighting"--
"Historical research on modern dictatorship has often neglected the relevance of the nineteenth century, instead focusing on twentieth-century dictatorial rules. Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century brings together scholars of political thought, the history of ideas and gender…
The Caucasus, including the South Caucasus states and Russia's North Caucasus, continues to be an area of instability and conflict. This book, based on extensive original research, explores in detail at both the local and regional level the interaction between state and society …
Drawing on theories of political myth and concepts of nationalism, Jardar Østbø analyzes the content and ideological function of the myth of Russia as a Third Rome. Through case studies of four prominent nationalist intellectuals, Østbø shows how this messianic myth was used to …