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Sanna Turoma, Maxim Waldstein (eds.): Empire De/Centered. New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union. Farnham: Ashgate 2013, 362 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4094-4786-3

In 1991 the Soviet empire collapsed, at a stroke throwing the certainties of the Cold War world into flux. Yet despite the dramatic end of this ‘last empire’, the idea of empire is still alive and well, its language and concepts feeding into public debate and academic research. Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international group…

Saltanat Liebert, Stephen E. Condrey, Dmitry Goncharov (eds.): Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries. Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia. London: Routledge 2013, 376 pp., ISBN: 978-1-43-986137-0

Although it has been more than 20 years since Communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, many scholars and politicians still wonder what the lifting of the Iron Curtain has really meant for these former Communist countries. And, because these countries were largely closed off to the world for so long,…

Georges Mink, Laure Neumayer (eds.): History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013, 288 pp., ISBN: 978-0-230-35433-3

Twenty years after the end of communism, the history of Central and Eastern Europe still sparks intense discussions in the former Soviet bloc, as contested memories, primarily about communist repression and WWII, are relived. This volume goes beyond the state-centred approach that so often characterises the study of memory-issues in post-communist countries and highlights two…

Tina Burrett: Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia. London: Routledge 2013, 300 pp., ISBN: 978-0-415-83814-6

As a new president takes power in Russia, this book provides an analysis of the changing relationship between control of Russian television media and presidential power during the tenure of President Vladimir Putin. It argues that the conflicts within Russia’s political and economic elites, and President Putin’s attempts to rebuild the Russian state after its…