Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian and East European Studies.
Ethnic Minorities in the South Caucasus: Everyday Ethnopolitics
1st Edition
By Vincenc Kopeček
October 13, 2026
This monograph offers the first comprehensive comparative analysis of ethnic minorities across the South Caucasus, examining how their contemporary situations are shaped by nationalism, imperial legacies, informal politics, religion, language, and migration. The book develops the concept of “...
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations: War for Sovereignty
1st Edition
By Nerses Kopalyan, Irina Ghaplanyan
September 30, 2026
This book examines the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and its aftermath, analysing the conflict through the lenses of war, sovereignty, power politics, international law, and unpeace, demonstrating how coercive diplomacy, conflict-persistence, and institutional failure reshaped the Armenia-Azerbaijan ...
Putin and Eurasian Relations: Russia into the Shadows
1st Edition
By Talal Nizameddin
August 04, 2026
This book explores Russia’s relations with Eurasian countries in response to its growing isolation from the Western world. Vladimir Putin’s world view, shaped by history and personal experience, has led to an ideological focus on an inevitable civilizational clash with the West, closely tied to his...
Education and the Politics of Memory in Russia and Eastern Europe: Infested with History
1st Edition
Edited
By Sergey Rumyantsev
July 20, 2026
This book examines both formal and extracurricular education, and the politics of memory and historical narratives in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Ukraine. The misalignment between memory politics and history politics forms a central theme of this book. Structured in three parts, it focuses ...
Kazakhstan as a Middle Power in Wartime: Relations with Russia After the Invasion of Ukraine
1st Edition
Edited
By Nygmet Ibadildin, Vladimir Ryzhkov
July 20, 2026
This book examines Kazakhstan’s political, economic, social, ideological, and security response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, exploring its impact on international relations and Kazakhstan’s resulting precarious position. Economically, strategically, and culturally linked to the Russian ...
Soviet Myth in Post-Soviet Russia
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Engström, Aleksei Semenenko
July 17, 2026
This book examines how the Soviet past is culturally negotiated, reimagined, and recreated in new temporal regimes; how the Soviet project is “recycled” and used as a key component in the construction of a new Russian collective identity; and how it has metamorphosed from a historical dimension to ...
Western Cinema in the USSR: The Distribution and Reception of Trophy Films after WWII
1st Edition
By Kristina Tanis
June 17, 2026
Trophy films seized from the German film archive at the end of the Second World War were widely screened in Soviet cinemas. This monograph is the first dedicated study of these films, investigating their history in the USSR through three main perspectives: seizure and translocation, economic ...
Party Competition in Hybrid Regimes: The Case Study of Post-Soviet Georgia
1st Edition
By Levan Kakhishvili
June 15, 2026
This book examines the nature of party competition in hybrid regimes, focusing on Georgia, a post-Soviet hybrid regime. It explores the coexistence of programmatic and clientelistic forms of party competition, offering a nuanced understanding of electoral dynamics in non-democratic contexts. Guided...
The Political Economy of Extreme Poverty in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Historical Perspective of Romanian Roma
1st Edition
Edited
By Enikő Vincze, Cornel Ban, Sorin Gog, Jon Horgen Friberg
May 22, 2026
This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in Eastern Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political mechanisms that have shaped it in labor, housing, and migration. This interdisciplinary book explores the (...
Ethnicity and Ethnic Minorities in Post-Soviet Eurasia
1st Edition
Edited
By Vincenc Kopeček, Martin Lepič, Libor Jelen
December 31, 2025
This book focuses on the study of ethnic minorities in post- Soviet Eurasia, their self-perceptions, and their relations with ethnic majorities and dominant state- and nation-building. Contributors to the book examine strategies and networks which minorities create for preserving a group’s ...
Russian Strategic Narratives on the Chinese Internet: Non-Linear Soft Power Projection
1st Edition
By Rui Wang
December 31, 2025
This book challenges the notion that strategic narratives, which carry soft power significance, are seamlessly projected to audiences. It offers the first book-length critical analysis of the non-linear dissemination of strategic narratives in the digital age, focusing on social media. Through a ...
Geopolitics and Poland's Foreign Policy: The Intermarium Concept and the Three Seas Initiative
1st Edition
By Alicja McGarrigle
November 25, 2025
Geopolitics and Poland's Foreign Policy offers a comprehensive examination of how the Intermarium continues to influence Polish foreign policy. The Three Seas Initiative (TSI) in Eastern Europe was announced in 2016 as a flagship project of Polish diplomacy. In this book, the author analyses the ...