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Agnieszka Halemba. 2006. The Telengits of Southern Siberia: Religion, Landscape and Knowledge in Motion. London: Routledge.
Baker, Catherine, Christopher J Gerry, Barbara Madaj, Liz Mellish and Jana Nahodilová, eds. 2007. Nation in Formation: Inclusion and Exclusion in Central & Eastern Europe, Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe No. 1. UCL-SSEES.
Bilaniuk, Laada. 2006. Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Reviewed by Alex King)
Burbank, Jane, Mark von Hagen, and Antolyi Remnev, eds. 2007. Russian Empire: Space, People, Power 1700-1930. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Buzalka, Juraj. 2007. Nation and Religion: The Politics of Commemoration in South-East Poland. Munster: Halle Series in the Anthropology of Eurasia Vol. 14.
Crate, Susan. 2006. Cows, Kin and Globalization: An Ethnography of Sustainability. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press (Reviewed by Brian Donahoe)
Darieva, Tsypylma and Wolfgang Kaschuba, eds. 2007. Representations on the Margins of Europe. Politics and Identities in the Baltic and South Caucasian States. Frankfurt/Main: Campus: Chicago University Press.
Gille, Zsuzsa. 2007. From the Cult of Waste to the Trash Heap of History: The Politics of Waste in Socialist and Postsocialist Hungary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Grant, Bruce and Lale Yalçin-Heckmann. 2007. Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia Vol. 13. Berlin: LIT Verlag. (Reviewed by Sam Schueth)
Harper, Krista. 2006. Wild Capitalism: Environmental Activists and Post-Socialist Political Ecology in Hungary. East European Monographs. (Reviewed by Katrina Schwartz)
Heinonen, Maarit, Jouko Nikula, Inna Kopoteva, and Leo Granberg, eds. 2007. Reflecting Transformation in Post-Socialist Rural Areas. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hemment, Julie. 2007. Empowering Women in Russia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Reviewed by Kristin Ghodsee)
Hervouet, Ronan. 2007. Datcha blues. Existences ordinaires et dictature en Biélorussie, Montreuil, Aux lieux d'être. Mondes contemporains.
Hsu, Carolyn. 2007. Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People are Shaping Class and Status in China. Durham: Duke University Press.
Ishkanian, Armine. 2008. Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia. Routledge.
Kaneff, Deema. 2006. Who Owns the Past? The Politics of Time in a "Model" Bulgarian Village. New York: Berghahn Books.
Kipnis, Andrew. 2008. China and Postsocialist Anthropology: Theorizing Power and Society after Communism. Norwalk, CT: Eastbridge Books.
Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin 2006. Claiming Ownership in Postwar Croatia: The Dynamics of Property Relations and Ethnic Conflict in the Knin Region Reihe: Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia.
Lindquist, Galina. 2006. Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia. New York: Berghahn Books.
Marin, Noemi. 2007. After the Fall: Rhetoric in the Aftermath of Dissent in Post-Communist Times, New York: Peter Lang.
Melancon, Michael. 2006. The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Pelkmans, Mathijs. 2006. Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Pfaff, Steven. 2006. Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989. Durham: Duke University Press.
Phillips, Sarah D. 2008. Women's Social Activisim in the New Ukraine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Schwartz, Katrina Z.S. 2006. Nature and National Identity After Communism: Globalising the Ethnoscape. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press (reviewed by Barbara A. Celarius).
Ssorin-Chaikov, Nikolai (ed) 2006. Dary Vozhdiam/Gifts to Soviet leaders. Moscow: Pinakotheke.
Stephenson, Svetlana. 2006. Crossing the Line: Vagrancy, Homelessness and Social Displacement in Russia. Aldershot, England: Bergate.
Wanner, Catherine. 2007. Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Zanca, Russel and Jeff Sahadeo, ed. 2007. Everyday Life in Central Asia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Reviewed by Irene Hilgers)
Other recent books in Postsocialist Studies
Ahrens, Geert-Hinrich. 2007. Diplomacy on the Edge: Containment of Ethnic Conflict and
the Minorities Working Group of the Conferences on Yugoslavia. Woodrow Wilson Center
Press.
Baga, Eniko. 2008. Towards a Romanian Silicon Valley?: Local Development in
Post-Socialist Europe. Campus Verlag.
Balkelis, Tomas. 2008. The Making of Modern Lithuania. Routledge.
Beumers, Birgit, Stephen Hutchings, and Natalya Rulyova, eds. 2008. The Post-Soviet
Russian Media. Routledge.
Best, Ulrich. 2007. Transgression as a Rule. German-Polish Cross-Border Cooperation,
Border Discourse and EU-Enlargement. Münster: Lit Verlag.
Bichsel, Christi. 2009. Conflict Transformation in Central Asia: Irrigation Disputes in
the Ferghana Valley. Routledge.
Bideleux, Robert and Ian Jeffries. 2007. The Balkans: A Post-Communist History. Routledge.
Borenstein, Eliot. 2007. Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular
Culture. Cornell University Press.
Brandon, Ray and Wendy Lower, eds. 2008. The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony,
Memorialization. Indiana University Press.
Buckley, Cynthia J., Blair A. Ruble, Erin Trouth Hofmann, eds. 2008. Migration, Homeland,
and Belonging in Eurasia. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press.
Chernetsky, Vitaly. 2007. Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the
Context of Globalization. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Cohen, Lenard J. and Jasna Dragovic-Soso, eds. 2008. State Collapse in South-Eastern
Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia’s Disintegration. Purdue University Press.
Coles, Kimberley. 2007. Democratic Designs: International Intervention and Electoral
Practices in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. University of Michigan Press.
Cook, Linda J. 2007. Postcommunist Welfare States: Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern
Europe. Cornell University Press.
Cooley, Alexander. 2008: Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and
Military Occupations. Cornell University Press.
Czepczynski, Mariusz. 2008. Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities. Ashgate.
Davis, Deborah and Feng Wang, eds. 2008. Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist
China. Stanford University Press.
Drahokoupil, Jan. 2008. Globalization and the State in Central and Eastern Europe: The
Politics of Foreign Direct Investment. Routledge.
Flynn, Moya, Rebecca Kay, and Jonathan Oldfield, eds. 2008. Trans-National Issues, Local
Concerns and Meanings of Post-Socialism: Insights from Russia, Central Eastern Europe,
and Beyond. University Press of America.
Gammer, Moshe, ed. 2008. Ethno-Nationalism, Islam and the State in the Caucasus:
Post-Soviet Disorder. Routledge.
Goldman, Marshall. 2008. Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia. Oxford University
Press.
Gradskova, Yulia. 2007. Soviet People with Female Bodies: Performing Beauty and Maternity
in Soviet Russia in the mid 1930-1960. Stockholm: Södertörn Högskola: Edita.
Graham, Loren and Irina Dezhina. 2008. Science in the New Russia: Crisis, Aid, Reform.
Indiana University Press.
Hernandez-Reguant, Ariana. 2009. Cuba in the Special Period: Culture and Ideology in the
1990s. Palgrave Macmillan.
Herrschel, Tassilo. 2009. Global Geographies of Post-Socialist Transition: Geographies,
societies, policies. Kindle.
Hundert, Gershon David, ed. 2008. The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Yale
University Press.
Hutchings, Stephen and Natalya Rulyova. 2008 Television in Putin’s Russia. Routledge.
Ioffe, Grigory. 2008. Understanding Belarus. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Ioffe, Grigory, Tatyana Nefedova, and Ilya Zaslavsky. 2006. The End of Peasantry?: The
Disintegration of Rural Russia. University of Pittsburgh Press.
Kaganovsky, Lilya. 2008. How the Soviet Man Was Unmade: Cultural Fantasy and Male
Subjectivity under Stalin. University of Pittsburgh Press.
Kideckel, David A. 2008. Getting by in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body, &
Working-class Culture. Indiana University Press.
Kirschbaum, Stanislav J., ed. 2007. Central European History and the European Union: The
Meaning of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
Kogan, Irena, Michael Gebel, and Clemens Noelke, eds. 2008. Europe Enlarged: A Handbook
of Education, Labour and Welfare Regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. Policy Press.
Korek, Janusz, ed. 2007. From Sovietology to Postcoloniality: Poland and Ukraine from a
Postcolonial Perspective. Sodertorns hogskola.
Kostovicova, Denisa and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, eds. 2008. Transnationalism in the
Balkans. Routledge.
Kovacevic, Natasa. 2008. Narrating Post/Communism. Routledge.
Kozhevnikova, Galina, Alexander Verkhovsky, and Eugene Veklerov. 2008. Ultra-Nationalism
and Hate Crimes in Contemporary Russia: The 2004-2006 Annual Reports of Moscow’s SOVA
Center. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol. 77. ibidem-Verlag.
Kraft, Claudia and Katrin Steffen, eds. 2007. Europas Platz in Polen: Polnische
Europa-Konzeptionen vom Mittelalter bis zum EU-Beitritt. Fibre Verlag.
Kurtz, Michael. 2007. Sofia Gubaidulina: A Biography. Indiana University Press.
Kusznir, Julia and Heiko Pleines. 2008. Trade Unions from Post-Socialist Member States in
EU Governance. ibidem-Verlag.
Kuzio, Taras. 2008. Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism. New
Directions in Cross-Cultural and Post-Communist Studies. Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
and Society 71. ibidem-Verlag.
Legvold, Robert, ed. 2007. Russian Foreign Policy in the Twenty-first Century and the
Shadow of the Past. Columbia University Press.
Malfliet, Katlijn and Ria Laenen, eds. 2007. Elusive Russia: Current Developments in
Russian State Identity and Institutional Reform under President Putin. Cornell University
Press.
Marples, David R. 2008. Heroes and Villains: Creating National history in Contemporary
Ukraine. Central European University Press.
McGrath, Jason. 2008. Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism
in the Market Age. Stanford University Press.
James Millward. Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. (Reviewed by Morgan Liu)
Myant, Martin and Terry Cox, eds. 2008. Reinventing Poland. Routledge.
Nemtsev, Mikhail. 2008. How Did a Sexual Minorities Movement Emerge in Post-Soviet
Russia? Vdm Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. Kg
Nyiri, Pal 2007. Chinese in Eastern Europe and Russia. Routledge.
Oleinik, Anton. 2009. Reforming the State without changing the model of power?: On
administrative reform in post-socialist countries. Routledge.
Orenstein, Mitchell A., Stephen Bloom, and Nicole Lindstrom, eds. 2008. Transnational
Actors in Central and East European Transitions. University of Pittsburgh Press.
Pinkert, Anke. 2008. Film and Memory in East Germany. Indiana University Press.
Pleines, Heiko and Sabine Fischer, eds. 2008. Crises and Conflicts in Post-Socialist
Societies: The Role of Ethnic, Political and Social Identities. ibidem-Verlag
Rechel, Bernd. 2008. The Long Way Back to Europe: Minority Protection in Bulgaria.
ibidem-Verlag.
Roberts, Elizabeth. 2007. Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro. Cornell
University Press.
Rodgers, Peter W. 2008. Nation, Region and History in Post-Communist Transitions. Identity Politics in Ukraine, 1991-2006. ibidem-Verlag.
Ross, Cameron. 2008. Local Politics and Democratisation in Russia. Routledge.
Salmenniemi, Suvi. 2008. Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia. Routledge.
Sergi, Bruno S., William T. Bagatelas, and Jana Kubicova, eds. Industries and Markets in
Central and Eastern Europe. Ashgate.
Shevchenko, Olga. 2009. Crisis and the Everyday in Postsocialist Moscow. Indiana
University Press.
Siani-Davies, Peter. 2007. The Romanian Revolution of December 1989. Cornell University
Press.
Shelley, Louise, Erik R. Scott, and Anthony Latta, eds. 2007. Organized Crime and
Corruption in Georgia. Routledge.
Simons, Jr., Thomas W. 2008. Eurasia’s New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open
Futures. Cornell University Press.
Smith, David J. and Karl Cordell, eds. 2008. Cultural Autonomy in Contemporary Europe.
Routledge.
Spoor, Max, ed. 2008. The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies
Routledge.
Stan, Lavinia. 2008. Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Routledge.
Steinberg, Mark D. and Heather J. Coleman, eds. 2007. Sacred Stories: Religion and
Spirituality in Modern Russia. Indiana University Press.
Svasek, Maruska. 2008. Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern
Europe. Berghahn Books.
Trbovich, Ana S. 2008. A Legal Geography of Yugoslavia's Disintegration. Oxford
University Press. (Reviewed by Daphne Winland)
Tsenkova, Sasha. 2009. Housing Policy Reforms in Post-Socialist Europe: Lost in
Transition. Physica-Verlag Heidelberg.
Unknown Socialist Realism: The Leningrad School. 2007. For more information:
www.leningradartist.com,
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Webb, Adrian. 2008. The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919.
Routledge.
Winter, Jay. 2008. Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the Twentieth Century.
Yale University Press.
Wolchik, Sharon L. and Jane L. Curry, eds. 2007. Central and East European Politics.
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Woll, Alexander and Harald Wydra, eds. 2008. Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern
Europe. Routledge.
Yekelchyk, Serhy. 2007. Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation. Oxford University Press.