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"This book looks at Eastern and Western monasticism's continuous and intensive interactions with society in Eastern Europe, Russia and the Former Soviet Republics. It discusses the role monastics played in fostering national identities, as well as the potentiality of monasteries and religious orders to be vehicles of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue within and beyond national boundaries. Using a country-specific analysis, the book highlights the monastic tradition and monastic establishments. It addresses gaps in the academic study of religion in Eastern European and Russian historiography and looks at the role of monasticism as a cultural and national identity forming determinant in the region"--Publisher info

During the first decade of the 21st century, a remarkable phenomenon swept through the former Soviet Union changing the political, social and cultural landscape. This book examines the significance of these regime-change processes for the post-Soviet world in particular and for global politics in the 21st century.

Belous, R. S.: From communism to capitalism. - S. 1-6. Goldman, M. I.: Why economic reforms in the former Soviet republics have not worked thus far. - S. 7-16. Surrey, R. S.: The Czech Republic's "velvet" transition. - S. 17-23. Tomlinson, A. C.: Hungary's ongoing transition to a free market economy. - S. 24-30. Saint-Phalle, T. de: Private sector technical assistance in the former Soviet republics. - S. 31-35

"This book explores the differing treatment of Russian minorities in the non-Russian republics which seceded from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Providing detailed case studies, it explains why intervention by Russia occurred in the case of Ukraine, despite Ukraine's benevolent and inclusive treatment of the large Russian minority, whereas in other republics with less benevolent approaches to minorities intervention did not occur, for example Kazakhstan, where discrimination against the Russian minority increased over time, and Latvia, where the country on its accession to the European Union was deemed to have good minority rights protection, despite a record of discrimination against the Russian minority. Throughout the book emphasises the importance of the perceptions of the republic government regarding the interaction between the minority's kin-state and the minority, the role that minorities played within the nation-building process and after secession, and the dual threat coming from both the domestic and international spheres"--

"Creating a Eurasian Union" offers a detailed analysis of the economies of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and the proposed Eurasian Union. The authors employ econometric analysis of business cycles and cointegration analysis to prove the fragility of the union's potential economic success. By providing a brief description of the economic integration of the former Soviet republics, this pioneering work analyses the on-going trial and error processes of market integration led by Russia. Vymyatnina and Antonova's distinctive argument is the first consistent analysis of the emerging Eurasian Union. They incorporate both a non-technical summary of the integration process and previous research and analytical comments, as well as a thorough empirical analysis of the real data on the economic development of the participating countries, to caution that the speed of integration might undermine the feasibility of the Eurasian Union

This book looks at the militaries of the late-Soviet and post-Soviet republics. Beginning with the end of the Soviet era, it recognises that the successor states did not spring from nowhere, but inherited a legacy that influenced all that followed. The book discusses how politicians control the instruments that are the manifestation of the state's monopoly on violence, and how society views and supports the military. By taking a bottom up empirical approach that examines the personnel, leaders, organisations and institutions, and their outlook and attitudes, the book presents a comprehensiv.

1. The Soviet Armed Forces in their final decade -- 2. The Soviet Armed Forces and domestic security : the repression of 1989-1991 -- 3. The transformation of the Soviet Armed Forces in its final years (1989-1991) -- 4. The defection of the Soviet Armed Forces and the end of the USSR : the August putsch of 1991 -- 5. The reconstruction and evolution of the armed forces in the Soviet successor states : Russia, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine -- 6. The new armed forces and domestic security : revolutions and repression in Russia, Armenia, Georgia and Ukraine.