Russian & Soviet Politics

A Frequency Dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions...

A Frequency Dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions...

Originally published in 1933, this volume was written by a practicing physician who visited Russia during the summer of 1932. Although the book makes no claim to offer anything more than a transient view of the constantly changing condition of Russian life, the picture it gives to those who knew Rus..

This book examines the new labour market in Russia, looking especially at how changes in the market are affecting men and women differently, and how 'coping strategies' are being developed by both men and women...

When originally published in 1967 and using archive material from official records in Ottawa, this book threw new light on the motives and actions of the intervening powers. Allied intervention took place in three main areas: Northern and Southern Russia as well as Siberia. Canada was the major Comm..

Drawing on on research conducted on Georgia and Armenia the book explores how regimes respond to voter preferences and how they adjust their policies accordingly. The volume was originally published as a special issue of the journal Caucasus Survey...

This book explores various intersections between individual and collective memories in the Baltic states after 1989, paying a special attention to life stories. _x005F_x000D_ It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies...

Designed for students with a basic knowledge of Russian, this book provides an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume...

This book addresses the key questions about postcommunist Belarus, and comes to the optimistic conclusion that Belarus will survive into the twenty-first century, but as a Eurasian, rather than a European state...

Originally published in 1931 this volume is a level-headed account of the Bolshevik Revolution and Bolshevist Russia which covers the whole ground of the Revolution, the early history of Bolshevism and the state of Russia in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Based on two visits by the author to Russia..

This book, originally published in English in 1927 deals with the social state of Russia after eight years of Bolshevist rule and influence up to the end of 1925. Laced with predictions of failure, the book is nonetheless prophetic in many ways. It discusses the limitations in practice of Bolshevist..

This text explores the idea of civil society, relating the concept and its developments in Eastern Europe to wider sociological theories and making international comparisons where appropriate. The difficulties of establishing civil society are discussed along with possible future outcomes for civil ..