The Rebuilding of Greater Russia

The Rebuilding of Greater Russia
Author: Bertil Nygren
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2007-10-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1134076835

Describes strategies used by President Putin from 2000 onwards to recreate "Greater Russia". It shows the subtlety of the means of control, through creating economic, energy, political and military dependencies. Provides comprehensive coverage of Russia's relations to the former Soviet territories of the CIS countries, including Ukraine and Putin's role in the events surrounding the "Orange Revolution", Belarus and the attempts to form a union, the Caucasus and Russia's role in the various conflicts, Moldova, including the Transdniester conflict, and Central Asia.

The Rebuilding of Greater Russia

The Rebuilding of Greater Russia
Author: Bertil Nygren
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2007-10-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134076827

This book describes the strategies used by President Putin from 2000 onwards to recreate 'Greater Russia', that is a Russia that controls most of the territory of the former Soviet Union. It shows the subtlety of the means of control, often through creating economic dependencies in the 'near abroad', including exploiting energy dependency, through prolonging other political and military dependencies, and sometimes through traditional 'power politics'. Bertil Nygren argues that after seven years in power the results of this strategy are beginning to show, providing comprehensive coverage of Russia’s relations to the former Soviet territories of the CIS countries, including Ukraine and Putin's role in the events surrounding the 'Orange Revolution', Belarus and the attempts to form a union, the Caucasus and Russia's role in the various conflicts, Moldova, including the Transdniester conflict, and Central Asia. This is an important subject for Russian studies experts and international relations scholars in general.

Rebuilding Russia

Rebuilding Russia
Author: Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn
Publisher: Harvill Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN:

An indictment of recent Soviet history, including the reforms of Gorbachev. Solzhenitsyn calls for the disbanding of the Soviet Union and the resurrection of a nation comprising the three Slavic republics of Russia and parts of Kazakhstan, but derides the violence of ethnic independence."

Post-Soviet Russia

Post-Soviet Russia
Author: Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780231106061

One of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991, from the drastic liberalization of prices and "shock therapy" to the privatization of state owned property and Yeltsin's resignation and replacement by Vladimir Putin.

Warning to the West

Warning to the West
Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 158
Release: 1976
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0374513341

Speeches given to the Americans and to the British from June 30, 1975 to March 24, 1976.

Routledge Handbook of Russian Security

Routledge Handbook of Russian Security
Author: Roger E. Kanet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 750
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 135118122X

The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security offers a comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of Russian security and foreign policy by international scholars from across the world. The volume identifies key contemporary topics of research and debate and takes into account the changes that have occurred in the study of Russian security strategy since the end of the Cold War. The handbook is organised into five sections: The theory and nature of Russian security policy The domestic and foreign policy nexus Instruments used by Russia in pursuing its security Global and regional aspects of Russian security and foreign policy Case studies of Russian involvement in a series of security conflicts. The book concludes with case studies of the major examples of Russian involvement and operations in a series of security conflicts, including that in Georgia, the intervention in Ukraine and occupation of Crimea, and the ongoing Civil War in Syria. This volume will be of great interest to students of Russian security, strategic studies, foreign policy, European politics, and International Relations in general.

The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics

The Sources of Russia's Great Power Politics
Author: Taras Kuzio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2018-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781910814390

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has transformed relations between Russia and the West into what many are calling a new cold war. The West has slowly come to understand that Russia's annexations, interventions and support for anti-EU populists emerge from Vladimir Putin's belief that Russia is at war with the West.

The Years of Great Silence

The Years of Great Silence
Author: Jonathan Otto Pohl
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 383821630X

This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR. It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German colonists in the Volga, Black Sea, and other regions in 1764, tracing their development and Tsarist state policies towards them up until 1917. After the Bolshevik Revolution, Soviet policy towards its ethnic Germans varied. It shifted from a generally favorable policy in the 1920s to a much more oppressive one in the 1930s, i.e. already before the Soviet-German war. J. Otto Pohl traces the development of Soviet repression of ethnic Germans. In particular, he focuses on the years 1941 to 1955 during which this oppression reached its peak. These years became known as “the Years of Great Silence” (“die Jahre des grossen Schweigens”). In fact, until the era of glasnost (transparency) and perestroika (rebuilding) in the late 1980s, the events that defined these years for the Soviet Germans could not be legally researched, written about, or even publicly spoken about, within the USSR.