Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies

This is a conversational approach to the teaching and learning of the Tajiki language...

Based on extensive factory-level fieldwork research, this book charts the experiences of a textile enterprise in Russia during the 1990s, analyzing post-Soviet management and managerial practices in order to illuminate the content, nature and direction of industrial restructuring in the Russian priv..

Based on interviews with people in Siberia, Central Asia and European Russia about their spirituality, this book brings together insights into the 'religious' worldview of those who claim to be Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, pagan or even 'atheist'...

The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being critical of the regime. As this book shows, over recent decades a significant counter-culture in the art world has been gradually emerging wh..

The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being critical of the regime. As this book shows, over recent decades a significant counter-culture in the art world has been gradually emerging wh..

The Pussy Riot protest, and the subsequent heavy handed treatment of the protestors, grabbed the headlines, but this was not an isolated instance of art being critical of the regime. As this book shows, over recent decades a significant counter-culture in the art world has been gradually emerging wh..

Although the Russian Empire has traditionally been viewed as a European borderland, most of its territory was actually situated in Asia. This book examines the history of the Asian parts of the Russian Empire, investigating the empire’s policy toward various religions and ethnic groups. It charts it..

This book focuses on Ukraine and on two regions in Russia: Nizhny Novgorod and Archangelsk. Contributors look at attitudes towards poverty and poor people; strategies of the poor; and policies against poverty. It was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Eur..

The book will be of interest to those readers who are interested in the lives of ordinary people below or on the edge of the poverty line in Russia and Ukraine, prospects of changes in their local circumstances, and actions taken to combat poverty. Interviews with men and women close to the edge of ..

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 Central and Eastern European since the communist era until the present time...

If sustainable growth is a key goal for the economy of every nation, its desirability is perhaps even more acute in Russia. Even President Medvedev argues that the country’s heavy reliance on natural resources makes it primitive and uncompetitive, calling for innovation and diversification. Having a..

If sustainable growth is a key goal for the economy of every nation, its desirability is perhaps even more acute in Russia. Even President Medvedev argues that the country’s heavy reliance on natural resources makes it primitive and uncompetitive, calling for innovation and diversification. Having a..