Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies

Including ethnographical, sociological and historico-religious data, the three autobiographies which make up this text provide a unique insight into the fight for control over Tibet at the start of the twentieth-century and the country's intermediary class._x000D_..

Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present explores tobacco’s role in Russian culture through a multidisciplinary approach starting with the growth of tobacco consumption from its first introduction in the seventeenth century until its pandemic status in the curre..

This book is based on research concerned primarily with the Central Industrial Region. The book follows two key lines of enquiry. The first seeks clarification of the legal provisions governing such enlistment, and the second introduces a large amount of data on this enlistment...

This book examines transitional justice in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, exploring their attempts to come to terms with the gross human abuses which characterized their communist past. It considers transitional justice in all its aspects, explaining why different countries adopted different mo..

This book explores the nature of transnational ties in the Balkans after the disintegration of former Yugoslavia and their impact on transition to democracy and inter-ethnic reconciliation in the region...

The central argument of this book is that the half-century of Russian rule in Central Asia was shaped by traditions of authoritarian rule...

“Central Europe” is a vague and ambiguous term, more to do with outlook and a state of mind than with a firmly defined geographical region. This book explores the concept of “Central Europe” and the meaning of the term. It considers a wide range of issues including politics, nationalism, democracy, ..

The purpose of this book is to move beyond the approach which views energy as a purely geopolitical tool of the Russian state and assumes a 'one size fits all' approach to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) energy security...

This book addresses the foreign policy and the current status of international relations of Uzbekistan. It focuses mainly on continuity, recognition, role theory and the concept of self-reliance. The author argues that the Government of Uzbekistan sought to be recognised as a self-reliant power afte..

This book takes a new approach to the August 2008 Russo-Georgian war, looking at the longue duree of Russian-Georgian relations as well as the domestic factors that, since independence and the Rose Revolution of 2003, provided the context for war. _x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special i..

This book takes a new approach to the August 2008 Russo-Georgian war, looking at the longue duree of Russian-Georgian relations as well as the domestic factors that, since independence and the Rose Revolution of 2003, provided the context for war. _x000D_ This book was published as a special issue i..

This book looks at Russian women’s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation, the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th-21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations, it focuses on both the continuities and breaks and importantly, it ..