This innovative, multi-contributed book, now available in paperback, argues convincingly that Russia will never be able to create a viable democracy as long as authoritarian regimes are able to...
This book dwells into the construction of new regional identities in post-Soviet Russia. Brought into being by a particular ideological practice, they constitute a particular response to the...
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...
This book reassesses the process whereby after 2000 Putin reversed the process by which in the 1990s power had shifted from Moscow to the regions. It focuses on the dynamics of regional boundaries:...