Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

This book illustrates why and how informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary, but a constant in most systems of the world.

This volume explores the relationship between new media and religion, focusing on the WWW’s impact on the Russian Orthodox Church.

This in-depth analysis discloses the sources, contents, and implications of post-Soviet Russian messianism.

Simon Kordonsky distinguishes and describes in particular the currently existing Russian service and support estates.

This book is an in-depth analysis of some unexpected consequences of international aid for transition in a post-communist state.

Maresca presents his personal memoirs of how it was possible to reach the Helsinki Accords and following agreements, a story of astonishing change and evolution.

In this timely book, the authors provide a detailed analysis of Russia's national interests in the Arctic region.

This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban migrant populations.

This book offers a comprehensive history of the Czechoslovak Ocean Shipping Company (C. O. S.) from its beginning in the late 1940s until the fall of communism.

Dieses Buch legt den Blick auf das russische Selbstverständnis und untersucht den Identitäsaspekt außenpolitischer Handlungsfreiheit.