Russian & Soviet Politics

This book, originally published in 1943 deals with the features of Soviet life which the editor and contributors feel are of particular significance to Western readers. It describes the soviet political system and gives an account of the institutions of soviet economic life, the principles on which ..

Exploring the folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, this book shows how folk 'tradition' in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of political developments in Russia since late 1999.  It covers all aspects of politics including central government and elections, regional government and developments in the republics, including in Chechnya and other Caucasian republics, and human rights..

In this volume, Edenborg studies contemporary conflicts of community as enacted in Russian media, from the ‘homosexual propaganda’ laws to the Ukraine war, and explores the role of visibility in the production and contestation of belonging to a political community. _x000D_  ..

Vladimir Putin’s presidency of Russia, 2000–2008, sought to overcome Boris Yeltsin’s chaotic legacy by rebuilding the authority of the Russian state, in the process winning popularity, but provoking alarm among liberals and democrats and in the wider world. These essays by an international team of a..

This edited collection presents a range of methods that can be used to analyse linguistic data quantitatively...

Originally published in English in 1932, this book written by a German National Socialist journalist,  and fierce critic of Soviet Russia, was the result of extensive travelling throughout the Soviet Union from 1926-1929. Ranging from Turkestan to Eastern Siberia, this was one of the most comprehens..

Revival: Soviet Developmental Psychology: An Anthology (1977)..

This title was first published in 1975...

Drawing on a wide range of Russian sources, this revised and updated second edition retains the broad historical focus of the previous edition and picks up from where it left off in the early 1990's...

Drawing on a wide range of Russian sources, this revised and updated second edition retains the broad historical focus of the previous edition and picks up from where it left off in the early 1990's...

This volume represents wide-ranging analyses of topics which interlink the domestic and foreign policy interests of Russia, covering Russia's relations with its immediate neighbours, and further afield to Asia-Pacific and the Middle East._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Europe-A..