This Element examines the debates over decolonization in the Russian case. It begins by contextualizing these debates through an examination of Russias historical development as an empire and identifies and disentangles key focal points. By doing so...More info...
Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
(Pub. Date: 22-May-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009664745)
Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 radically changed the way many viewed the nature of the Russian state. The centrality of resentment and imperial nostalgia in Russian narratives led many to argue that Russian imperialism was a...More info...
Russias twenty-first-century military aggression has inspired calls for re-thinking the Soviet era and its aftermath – in particular, for drawing attention to the non-Russian parts of the (former) USSR. At the same time, the present era of anthropog...More info...
Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
(Pub. Date: 08-May-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009539487)
Russias twenty-first-century military aggression has inspired calls for re-thinking the Soviet era and its aftermath – in particular, for drawing attention to the non-Russian parts of the (former) USSR. At the same time, the present era of anthropog...More info...
Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
(Pub. Date: 08-May-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009559072)
Ukrainian Literature: A Wartime Guide for Anglophone Readers is an introduction for general readers and students to Ukrainian literature in English translation. It takes as its starting point the responses of Ukrainian poets and prose writers to Russ...More info...
An introduction for general readers and students to Ukrainian literature in English translation, using the responses of Ukrainian poets and prose writers to Russias full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the preceding eight-year war as its start...More info...
Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
(Pub. Date: 20-Mar-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009507745)
This Element assesses the claim that Central Asian countries hold a special position as Russias near abroad. The region has been important for millennia, and only after conquest in the second half of the nineteenth century did Russia become importan...More info...
This Element evaluates Central Asian countries special position as Russias near abroad, highlighting their historical importance and connection. After Soviet integration, new trade links and infrastructure modified these links. Economic dependency...More info...
Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
(Pub. Date: 13-Feb-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009557207)
When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Warsaw Pact was a robust military alliance. It was capable of waging a large-scale war in Europe and was an instrument of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, keeping orthodox Co...More info...
When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the Warsaw Pact was a robust military alliance. It was capable of waging a large-scale war in Europe and was an instrument of Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe, keeping orthodox Co...More info...
This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraines twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It presents Ukraine as an actor, not a pawn, in international history....More info...
Series: Elements in Soviet and Post-Soviet History
(Pub. Date: 21-Nov-2024, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009486040)
This Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraines twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It presents Ukraine as an actor, not a pawn, in international history....More info...
This Element explains the historical conditions for the seemingly anomalous presence of people outside of their own Soviet republic and the sometimes-fraught consequences for them and their post-Soviet host countries. This Element explains...More info...
