This book examines how influential groups perceive social problems in Estonia, Russia and Finland. The context of the study is the ongoing "Eastern transition" in Estonia and Russia and the "Western transformation"...
Thousands of Finnish prisoners served time in the Soviet penal system known as the Gulag. Most of them were Ingrian Finns, others had left Finland in hope of a better life, and the rest were victims of...
"This book offers a new, complementary perspective to the study of inter-state relations in the Eastern bloc. By showing that there were chances to pursue national interest even against the common objectives...
"Highly readable, coherently structured, and full of interesting insights, Russia's Northern Region on the Edge will help geographers and other social scientists better sort out, as noted in the book's...
Proceedings of the Ilyenkov symposium in Helsinki 7th and 8th September 1999. Evald Ilyenkov (1924 - 1979) was an outstanding philosopher, whose ideas not only influenced profoundly the Soviet philosophy,...
As the European Union struggles to agree a common line and to establish mutual understanding in its dealings with Russia, the story about how bilateral relations work between Russia and two European countries...
Multicultural insights in men's studies
This volume responds to a growing field of critical research in men and masculinities in the post-socialist and post-Soviet countries.
The discussion in this articles by Dr. Pekka Sutela, ranges from macroeconomic stabilisation to privatisation, but the underlying theme of the papers is the question about the characteristics and performance...
Miten sukupuoli, seksuaalisuus ja suomalaisuus punoutuvat toisiinsa?
Nämä kysymykset yhdistävät tutkijoita, jotka liikkuvat kenttätöissä Venäjän kylissä ja kaupungeissa, pienyhteisöjen, liikkeiden ja...
Contributors: Eine Alt, Natalia Baschmakoff, Aleksandr Belousov, Elena Dushechkina,
Paul Fryer, Tuulikki Kurki, Simo Leisti, Mari Raami, Irina Razumova,
Mari Ristolainen, Olga Zmeeva. The present...
Markku Lonkila's dissertation Social Networks in Post-Soviet Russia is about the legacy of socialism: the tension between the patterns of thought and behaviour inherited from the socialist era and the...
Risto Alapuro, Ilkka Liikanen and Markku Lonkila. Are Russia and Estonia still post-Soviet societies? Or have they already moved beyond the transition stage? What is the new, allegedly "normal" condition...
This collection of essays in honour of Professor Natalia Baschmakoff presents seventeen scholarly contributions to the study of Russian cultural history, literature, arts and society.
This work studies the emigrant policies amongst the leaders of the Finnish Communist Party in Soviet Russia at the time when the Party was illegal in Finland. In the Party there were a number of oppositions....
The Russian legal system has been exposed to two radical changes during the 20th century. First, the Bolshevik revolution replaced the old imperial law with a socialist regime, then after the collapse...
This book is dedicated to the great German sociologist and political economist Max Weber (1864-1920) and his influence on Russian society; a topic which up to now has remained largely under researched....
Russian forest peripheries have become highly contested environments in the globalising world. Foreign and domestic companies have been investing in production and extending their round-wood procurement...
This edition brings together the proceedings of the 4 th Aleksanteri Conference held in November 2004: "DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA AND THE CIS - CONCEPTS, CHALLENGES AND VISIONS"
Articles by Tony Alabaster, Joan DeBardeleben, Lassi Heininen, Kimberley Heuckroth, Timo P. Karjalainen, Ilmo Massa, Boris Segerståhl, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Natalia Yakovleva, Oleg Yanitsky
The restructuring of the Pechenga District is analysed in this study through interviews with the participants - workers, public sector and managers - of the process. Moreover, the Russian North's restructuring...
The book offers a new approach to Western firms' business activities in Eastern Europe. It focuses on market entry and business development processes of Nordic firms in Eastern Europe. The new business...
Memories and scholarly exploration on memory have become a significant part of contemporary cultural studies. Breaks in the cultural and political orders in Russian and German societies had a strong impact...
There are great expectations concerning new communication technologies and the Internet. A revolution in people's networking and globalisation is spoken of. Especially young people's Internet use is in...
This study examines changes in Russian administration in historical perspective. While providing an overall conception of local administrative culture, the book's main focus is that of the executive branch...
This dissertation identifies for the first time those intergovernmental organizations and instances that deal with natural disaster mitigation and prevention, as well as the methods and procedures that...
Articles of the research programme for Russia and Eastern Europe of the Academy of Finland. Perhaps inevitably, students of Russia tend to emphasize the uniqueness of their object. That is, one way after...
Over the period of last fifteen years, Russia has become a market economy. Sharing many features with other middle-income resource-based economies, it is marked both by the Soviet bequest and its position...
For almost a century the 'Baltic question' has been an integral issue of both Northern European and global international relations. The standing of three small nations has tested the relationships between...
In the past two decades Russia has undergone remarkable economic, political and cultural changes. We may presume that these changes have had a strong influence on the opinions of Russians themselves as...
This provocative and timely contribution to the debate on current Russian environmental policy and politics provides a contextualized analysis of the Russian green movement within a society characterized...
Kylmä sota erotti poliittiset blokit toisistaan ja repi perheitä ja ystäviä esiripun eri puolille.
Poliittisesta vastakkainasettelusta huolimatta monimuotoinen kanssakäyminen jatkui ja jopa kukoisti yli...
The radical Russian philosopher, politician, utopian novelist and social scientist Aleksandr Bogdanov (1873-1928) is a controversial figure: for some, the "rival of Lenin" and founder of an alternative...
For many decades, communist ideology concealed the idea of Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian intellectuals, inheritors of the traditions of the Russian intelligentsia, welcomed the...
