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  • No More Heroines?

    Russia, Women and the Market

    by Sue Bridger, Rebecca Kay, Kathryn Pinnick ...
    With the collapse of Soviet rule and the emergence of independent Russia, the image of Russian women in the Western imagination has changed dramatically. The robust tractor drivers and athletes have been replaced by glamorous but vulnerable beauty queens or the dishevelled and downcast women trading goods on the streets.The authors of this work take a closer look at what lies behind the above ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Surviving Post-Socialism

    Local Strategies and Regional Responses in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

    Edited by Sue Bridger, Frances Pine ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
    This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An interdisciplinary approach is adopted as the contributors engage with questions of gender, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, employment and labour patterns and changing family structures. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Perfect Dictatorship

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, the author concludes that under the new leadership of Xi Jinping, the system of government has been transformed into a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Wary Embrace: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

    What the China-Russia relationship means for the world

    by Bobo Lo ...
    ?With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be China and Russia that now define the rules of global politics?In a disorderly world, each has become increasingly assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence. Yet appearances are deceptive. Beijing and Moscow have shown no capacity to cooperate on grand strategy or establish new ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union

    The Post-Socialist States

    by Michael Bradshaw, Alison Stenning ...
    Series series Developing Areas Research Group
    A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region. ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The Other Russia

    Local experience and societal change

    by Leo Granberg, Ann-Mari Sätre ...
    Series series Studies in Contemporary Russia
    Most recent research seeks to explain contemporary changes in Russia by analysing the decisions of Russian leaders, oligarchs and politicians based in Moscow. This book examines another Russia, one of ordinary people changing their environment and taking opportunities to provoke societal changes in small towns and the countryside. Russia is a resource-rich society and the country’s strategy and ... Read more

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  • Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Kerstin Jacobsson ...
    Series series Cities and Society
    What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil societies have significantly more vitality than is commonly perceived. The case studies here reflect ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Informal Post-Socialist Economy

    Embedded Practices and livelihoods

    Edited by Jeremy Morris, Abel Polese ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    From smugglers to entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers and taxi drivers, this book deals with the multitude of characters engaged in informal economic practices in the former socialist regions. Going beyond a conception of informality as opposed to the formal sector, its authors demonstrate the fluid nature of informal transactions straddling the crossroads between illegal, illicit, socially ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • China and the West

    Hope and Fear in the Age of Asia

    by Fokke Obbema ...
    China sees its relations with the West as absolutely crucial to its future. This wider relationship, between the new world and the old, is changing the global political and economic landscape. But can Europe and China overcome their cultural and political differences to develop a relationship of trust? Here, experienced journalist Fokke Obbema travels through Europe and China and speaks with ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Postcapitalism

    A Guide to Our Future

    by Paul Mason ...
    "A fascinating set of ideas . . . Politicians of all stripes should take note. And so should the people who vote for them." — Financial TimesWe know that our world is undergoing seismic change—but how can we emerge from the crisis as a better society?Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes—economic cycles that veer from boom to bust—from which it has always ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • What Does China Think?

    by Mark Leonard ...
    An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China.We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Nation of Shopkeepers

    The Unstoppable Rise of the Petite Bourgeoisie

    by Dan Evans ...
    A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most powerful, but underexplored, classes in modern society.The petite-bourgeoisie — the insecure class between the working class and the bourgeoisie — is hugely significant within global politics. Yet it remains something of a mystery.Initially identified as a powerful political force by theorists like ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD