Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralised regime based in Moscow, with dependent provinces, made subservient by Putin’s policies limiting regional
This title was first published in 2001. This text looks at what being Russian means to a Russian politician, the country they live in and what they think it oug
In Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Susan Smith-Peter shows how ideas of civil society encouraged
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
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more