By Atsushi Ogushi

This book, based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources, including the party archives, provides a great deal of new information on the disintegration...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

Putin's Foreign Policy Towards the CIS Countries

By Bertil Nygren

This book describes the strategies used by President Putin from 2000 onwards to recreate 'Greater Russia', that is a Russia that controls most of the...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

Post-Soviet Disorder

Edited by Moshe Gammer

With the region of the Caucasus with its ongoing, and even deteriorating, crisis and instability and its strategic and economic importance increasingly at the front...

Published October 19th 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by Alexander Wöll, Harald Wydra

In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is...

Published October 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by Mikhail Tsypkin

This book discusses and provides examples of Russia’s need to reshape its security and military policies in order to meet the global challenges of fighting...

Published September 26th 2007 by Routledge.

Kazakhstan - Ethnicity, Language and Power

By Bhavna Dave

Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia. It is the second largest country of the former Soviet Union,...

Published September 19th 2007 by Routledge.

Edited by Louise Shelley, Erik R. Scott, Anthony Latta

Georgia is one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden nations of the former Soviet Union. In the Soviet period, Georgians played a major role in...

Published September 17th 2007 by Routledge.

From Communism to Capitalism

By Stephan Barisitz

Comparative in structure and covering an extensive number of transition countries in its survey, this comprehensive book overviews the development of the banking systems in...

Published August 9th 2007 by Routledge.

Czech Transformation and Right-Wing Politics, 1989–2006

By Seán Hanley

This book considers the emergence of centre right parties in Eastern Europe following the fall of communism, focusing primarily on the case of the Czech...

Published July 20th 2007 by Routledge.

Secret Operations on Land and at Sea

By Evgeny Sergeev

Examining Russian military intelligence in the war with Japan of 1904-05, this book, based on newly-accessible documents from the tsarist era military, naval and diplomatic...

Published April 25th 2007 by Routledge.