Product Description: Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion...read more

Based on extensive use of documents from the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, historian Vera Tolz discusses how Russian academicians justified their cooperation with the Bolsheviks and what was the ideological basis of the regime's policy toward the academy after the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Product Description: Russia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were understood at the time. Out of the ferment of revolution and war, a group of scholars in St...read more

Product Description: This book explores historically determined links between gender, nation-building and democratic political processes in contemporary Europe. Building on the growing body of theoretical literature on the gendered nature of nationalism, it offers a systematic examination of similarities and differences in the construction of gender and national identities in post-communist societies of Eastern and East Central Europe as well as established and 'stable' democracies of Western Europe...read more

Product Description: The question of national identity is central to the future of Russia. In this analysis, which spans three centuries of Russian cultural history, Vera Tolz places post-communist Russia in a broad historical background. She focuses on three ways of defining Russia and Russians: Russia as a counterpart to the West; Russians as creators of a unique multi-ethnic community; and Russians as members of the community of Eastern Slavs...read more

Product Description: The essays in this book explore the changing and constant features of the process of democratization in Europe since 1800. The editors see democratization as an intermittent process concentrated in the European context, into four periods: the first wave of the nineteenth century democratization in Western and Northern Europe; the post-Versailles stage of advance and retreat in both old-established and newly created states; the post-1945 wave amongst states and societies defeated in the World War II, distinguished by having democratic constitutions imposed upon them; and the post-1970 process in Southern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the post-Communist states of East-Central Europe...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An examination of the early Soviet period of the Russian (Soviet) Academy of Sciences which focuses on the reactions of individual members of the academy to the new situation in which they found themselves after October 1917. Based on the extensive use of documents from the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the author discusses how the academicians justified their cooperation with the Bolsheviks and the ideological basis of the regime's policy towards the academy in the 1920s...read more

'...a highly professional, academically authoritative and well-annotated piece of work.' - Curtis Keeble, Daily Telegraph This book, by expert researchers of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute, covers the dramatic events which led to the collapse of the USSR including analysis of the difficult process of building democracy in the first year of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Using a wide range of sources in the main languages of the former USSR, specialists contribute chapters on political, military, and economic developments, while other experts trace the path to independence taken by the countries emerging from communist rule.

Product Description: The last volume in this annual series chronicles the developments that led up to the abortive August coup, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Product Description: A day-by-day chronology of important events and developments in or related to the USSR, this reference annual draws from a wide variety of sources including Soviet and international media reports. The volume's comprehensive indexes to persons, events, and places provide easy access to the specific information being sought...read more

Product Description: Throughout the history of the USSR, groups of like-minded people have gathered, without official permission, to discuss issues of common interest. They had their predecessors in prerevolutionary voluntary associations and political parties...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)