Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies

This book looks at Russian women’s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation, the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th-21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations, it focuses on both the continuities and breaks and importantly, it ..

This book looks at Russian women’s mobilization and agency during the two periods of transformation, the turn of the 19th-20th century and the 20th-21st century. Bringing together the parallels between the two great transformations, it focuses on both the continuities and breaks and importantly, it ..

This book explores the portrayal of women in Soviet films of the 1950s to 1970s, during which time a large number of films featured complex female characters who went beyond the stereotypical women of Soviet realism...

Based on extensive original research, including studies of autobiographies and biographies, reminiscences and memoirs, archived oral history data and interviews conducted by the authors, this book provides a rich picture of how women experienced repression in the former Soviet bloc...

This book is concerned with the work of twenty-four young Jewish poets who were killed, died of wounds, or were executed in captivity during their service in the Red Army in the Second World War. All were young, published poets,  thoroughly assimilated into Soviet society whilst at the same time bei..

This book is concerned with the work of twenty-four young Jewish poets who were killed, died of wounds, or were executed in captivity during their service in the Red Army in the Second World War. All were young, published poets,  thoroughly assimilated into Soviet society whilst at the same time bei..

This book brings together original empirical research from a range of countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to explore the impact of post-socialist transformation on different aspects of young people’s lives. Contributors address spheres as diverse as consumption, migration, po..

This book brings together original empirical research from a range of countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to explore the impact of post-socialist transformation on different aspects of young people’s lives. Contributors address spheres as diverse as consumption, migration, po..

This book brings ‘the political’ – an open contestation of ideas and policy positions – back in to the debate of EU politics in the eastern region and beyond. The chapters originally published as a special issue in East European Politics...