This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research-level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects.
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By Bartłomiej Kapica
July 04, 2025
Charting the life and writings of Władysław Bieńkowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Władysław Gomułka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Poland throughout the period of communist rule. ...
By Marco Biasioli
June 16, 2025
This book explores Russian independent music – nezavisimaia muzyka – in a time of profound transformations in Russian society, looking especially at the mutual influence between music and the socio-political context in which it was created. Contrary to what is commonly believed, the book argues ...
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By Barbara Martin, Nadezhda Beliakova
December 18, 2024
This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s. Based on a broad range of new sources on the daily life of religious communities, including material from regional archives and oral history, it shows...
By Ararat L. Osipian
October 09, 2024
This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s, linked directly to the exhausting and ill-planned transition from the planned economy to the market economy, resulted in Russia ...
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By Elena Korosteleva, Irina Petrova, Anastasiia Kudlenko
October 07, 2024
This book presents a comprehensive overview of current developments in Belarus. It explores how there has been an upswelling of popular support for the idea that Belarus must change. It highlights how the old regime, aiming to retain the Soviet legacy, reluctant to reform, presiding over worsening ...
By Samuel Rogers
August 30, 2024
This book emphasises the importance of state-business relations and external capital for structuring and strengthening authoritarian populism in Hungary. It argues these capitalist relations are crucial to understanding the economic aspects of this ideology, which has developed in the country since...
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By Jasmin Dall'Agnola, Allyson Edwards, Marnie Howlett
August 26, 2024
Written for early-career scholars still in the planning stages of their research, this book explores some of the challenges researchers face when conducting fieldwork in the former Soviet region. It addresses key questions, including: What difficulties do scholars, especially females, encounter ...
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By Alexander Rojavin, Helen Haft
July 31, 2024
This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a variety of battlefields, including social media, online news, and television. It outlines how Russian cinema has been instrumentalized, both by the Kremlin's allies and its ...
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By Carol S. Leonard, Daniel Orlovsky, Jurej Petrov
July 30, 2024
The way in which the Russian Revolution of October 1917 is regarded and commemorated has changed considerably over time, and is a contentious subject, well demonstrated by the absence of any official commemoration in Russia in 2017, a huge contrast to the very large celebrations which took place in...
By Sofia Gavrilova
May 27, 2024
This book presents the results of extensive research into the very interesting phenomenon of local museums—kraevedschskyi museums—in Russia’s regions. It outlines how numerous such museums are, how long they have existed, what they display, and how this has changed, or not, from Soviet times up to ...
By Mikhail Suslov
February 23, 2024
A key question for the contemporary world: What is Putin’s ideology? This book analyses this ideology, which it terms “Putinism”. It examines a range of factors that feed into the ideology – conservative thought in Russia from the nineteenth century onwards, Russian and Soviet history and their ...
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By Katalin Miklóssy, Markku Kangaspuro
September 25, 2023
This book discusses the diverse practices and discourses of memory politics in Russia and Eastern Europe. It argues that currently prevailing conservativism has a long tradition, which continued even in Communist times, and is different to conservatism in the West, which can accommodate other ...