Understanding Contemporary Russia / / ed. by Michael L. Bressler.

Russia today is in many ways different from the country portrayed a decade ago in the first edition of Understanding Contemporary Russia. With an upsurge of both national pride—despite a struggling economy—and civil society activism, with a palpable tension between the support for democratic values...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Understanding: Introductions to the States and Regions of the Contemporary World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (447 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Russia: A Geographic Preface
  • 3. The Historical Context
  • 4. Politics
  • 5. The Economy
  • 6. International Relations
  • 7. Ethnicity, National Identity, and Multiculturalism
  • 8. Population, Health, and Migration
  • 9. Russia’s Environment and Environmental Movement
  • 10. Women in a Changing Context
  • 11. Religion
  • 12. Literature and Film
  • 13. Concluding Thoughts
  • Acronyms
  • The Contributors
  • Index
  • About the Book