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  • Population Under Duress

    Geodemography Of Post-soviet Russia

    by George J Demko, Steven K Pontius, Zhanna Zaionchkovskaya, Gregory Ioffe ...
    The demographic history of twentieth-century Russia has been marked by a series of tragedies. Calamitous wars, revolutions, civil strife, and political murders have resulted in unparalleled mortality rates, depressed fertility rates, and sadly unprecedented demographic patterns of all types. This volume explores the most recent problems afflicting the Russian population in the post?Cold War era ... Read more

    $236.35 CAD

  • Continuity And Change In Rural Russia A Geographical Perspective

    by Gregory Ioffe, Tatyana Nefedova ...
    Contrary to the viewpoint of many Western scholars, the authors of this penetrating analysis argue that private farming is not a viable option in Russia's future. Instead, a convergence of Soviet-style subsidiary farming with traditional and reorganized collective farms is the most plausible path of evolution in most rural areas.Grigory Ioffe and Tatyana Nefedova arrive at this conclusion by a ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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    How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold

    by Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy ...
    Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union's collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia's geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin. Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in ... Read more

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  • EU-Russia Relations

    Time for a Realistic Turnaround

    by Katinka Barysch, Christopher Coker, Leszek Jesień ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    In this paper, three long-time observers of Russia and the EU perform a reality check on the EU–Russia relationship. All three authors agree that a more realistic EU policy would deal with Russia as it is, not as the EU wants it to be. The reality of today’s Russia is complex, as is the policy formulation process in the EU. Nevertheless, the EU should start with a clearer idea of where its own ... Read more

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  • Russia after 2012

    From Putin to Medvedev to Putin – Continuity, Change, or Revolution?

    Edited by J.L. Black, Michael Johns ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book provides an overview of the state of Russia after the 2012 presidential election. It considers a wide range of both domestic and international issues, examining both the run up to and the consequences of the election. It covers political, economic, and social topics. It assesses the political scene both before and after the election, and discusses the nature of and likely future of ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Russia’s Changing Economic and Political Regimes

    The Putin Years and Afterwards

    Edited by Andrey Makarychev, Andre Mommen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Russia

    Edited by Neil Robinson ...
    This timely book explores Russia’s political development since the collapse of the USSR and how inextricably it has been bound up with economic change. Tracing the evolution of Russia’s political economy, leading scholars consider how it may continue to develop going forward. They assess the historical legacies of the Soviet period, showing how—despite policies implemented after the USSR dissolved ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Russia

    The Challenges of Transformation

    Edited by Piotr Dutkiewicz, Dmitri Trenin ...
    Series Book 5 - Possible Futures
    In Russia, a group of leading Russian intellectuals and social scientists join with top researchers from around the world to examine the social, political, and economic transformation in Russia. This timely and important book of orginal essays makes clear that neither politics nor economics alone holds the key to Russia's future, presenting critical perspectives on challenges facing Russia, both ... Read more

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  • Russia

    A State of Uncertainty

    by Neil Robinson ...
    Series series Postcommunist States and Nations
    Over the last hundred years, Russia has undergone a succession of failed projects of state construction - from Tzarist modernisation to Soviet state socialism to liberal democratic market capitalism. This new book introduces these vastly different projects and explains their failure in order to illuminate the common problems of balancing social and economic transformation with political stability ... Read more

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  • From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union

    The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973

    by Ivan T. Berend ...
    The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet Bloc countries joining the European Union. Taking the OPEC oil crisis of 1973 as his starting point, he charts the gradual unravelling of state socialism in ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Mandate of Heaven

    Marx and Mao in Modern China

    by Nigel Harris ...
    Series series International Socialism
    For radicals in Europe and North America, the anti-imperialist-and Chinese-revolutions continued the great task of 1789, 1848, and 1870, the bourgeois revolution” in Marx’s terms, and the creation of nations that would release the energies and unity of purpose to create new worlds of prosperity and freedom. The nationalist focus led to an emphasis on autarkic development-the nation, it was said, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • National Perspectives on Russia

    European Foreign Policy in the Making?

    Edited by Maxine David, Jackie Gower, Hiski Haukkala ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book presents a ground-breaking comparative study of the bilateral relations of all 27 EU member states with Russia and an assessment of their impact on the EU’s efforts to conduct a coherent and effective policy towards its most important neighbour.While there has been a lot of research on European foreign policy, there has been much less on the role that national foreign policies play in it ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD