Europe-Asia Studies encourages book review contributions from postgraduate
students. Please find below a list of the books currently available for
review in Europe-Asia Studies. If you would like to volunteer to review
one (or more) of the books listed, or if you would like to suggest a
suitable reviewer, please contact Hazel Mackenzie in the first instance
([log in to unmask]).
A standard book review consists of a review of one book (or sometimes two)
and is usually around 1,000 words. Please do not hesitate to get in touch
with Hazel Mackenzie or Clare McManus-Czubinska (Reviews Editor,
[log in to unmask]) with any queries.
Hazel Mackenzie
Journal Administrative Assistant
Europe-Asia Studies
Department of Central and East European Studies University of Glasgow
Glasgow UK
G12 8RS
Books Available for Review:
Ackerman, Susan-Rose, From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable
Government in Hungary and Poland. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2007, xii + 272pp., £14.99 ($24.99) h/b.
Anderson, Christopher J., Blais, André, Bowler, Shaun, Donovan, Todd &
Listhaug, Ola, Losers’ Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy.
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007, xii + 222pp., £18.99 p/b.
Antić, Čedomir, Neutrality as Independence: Great Britain, Serbia and the
Crimean War. Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2007, 235pp.
h/b.
Balabanova, Ekaterina, Media, Wars and Politics: Comparing the
Incomparable in Western and Eastern Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, xi +
172pp., £55.00 h/b.
Balmaceda, Margarita M., Energy Dependency, Politics and Corruption in the
Former Soviet Union: Russia’s Power, Oligarchs’ Profits and Ukraine’s
Missing Energy Policy 1995-2006. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russia and
East European Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2008, xvii +
222pp., £80.00 h/b.
Bartlett, William, Europe’s Troubled Region: Economic Development,
Institutional Reform and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans. Routledge
Studies in Development Economics. London and New York: Routledge, 2008,
xix + 257pp., £80.00 h/b.
Benczes, István, Trimming the Sails: The Comparative Political Economy of
Expansionary Fiscal Consolidations. Budapest and New York: Central
European University Press, 2008, xvi + 257pp., £21.95 h/b.
Bottoni, Stefano, Transylvania rossa: Il communismo romeno e la questione
nazionale (1944-1965). Rome, Carocci, 2007, 238pp., €19.00 p/b.
Buzar, Stefan, Energy Poverty in Eastern Europe: Hidden Geographies of
Deprivation. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, xiii + 175pp., £55.00 h/b.
Chen, Cheng, The Prospects for Liberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist
States. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 2007,
xiv + 245pp., $55.00 h/b.
Eckert, Denis, Le Monde Russe: Collection dirigée par Dominique Borne et
Jacques Scheibling. Carré Géographie. Apris: Hachette Supérieur, 2007,
254pp., € 16.60 p/b.
Ganev, Venelin, I., Preying on the State: The Transformation of Bulgaria
after 1989. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2007, xi +
222pp., h/b.
Johnson, Ericka, Dreaming of a Mail Order Husband: Russian American
Internet Romance. Durham, NC and London, Duke University Press, 2007, ix +
193pp., £13.99 p/b; £53.00 h/b.
Knobloch, Edgar, Russia & Asia: Nomadic & Oriental Traditions in Russian
History. Hong Kong, Odyssey Books, 2007, 475pp., £17.95 p/b.
Kuhrt, Natasha, Russian Policy towards China and Japan: The El’tsin and
Putin periods. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European
Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, 228pp., £75.00 h/b.
Lankina, Tomila V., Hudalla, Anneke, & Wollmann, Hellmut, Local Governance
in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparing Performance in the Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan,
2008, viii + 216pp., £50.00 h/b.
Lefort, Claude, Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracy
[Translated by Julian Bourg]. New York, Columbia University Press, 2007,
xi + 237pp., £22.50 h/b.
Magocsi, Paul Robert, Ukraine: An Illustrated History. Toronto and London:
University of Toronto Press, 2007, x + 336pp., £48.00 ($75.00) h/b.
Marples, David R., Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in
Contemporary Ukraine. Budapest and New York: Central European University
Press, 2007, xxii + 363pp., £23.95 h/b.
Moore, Rebecca, R., NATO’s New Mission: Projecting Stability in a Post-
Cold War World. Westport, CT and London, Praeger Security International,
2007, xi + 210pp., h/b.
Rainer, Janos M., The Agent: Fragments on State Security and Middle Class
Values in Kádarist Hungary. Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures
and Societies No. 22, Trondheim, Program on East European Cultures and
Societies, 2007, 45pp., p/b.
Rosenfeldt, Niels Erik, Lenin: En revolutionær fundamentalist. København:
Høst & Søn/ Rosinante & Co, 2008, 277pp., 299 kr. h/b.
Rylkova, Galina, The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and
Its Legacy. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, ix + 270pp., $27.95 p/b.
Sakwa, Richard, Putin: Russia’s Choice. Second Edition, London and New
York, Routledge, 2008, xi + 388pp, £21.99 p/b.
Schelvis, Jules, Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. Oxford and New
York, Berg, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, 2007, xvi + 278pp., £17.99 p/b.
Schorkowitz, Dittmar, Postkommunismus und verordneter Nationalismus:
Gedächtnis, Gewalt, und Geschichtspolitk im nördlichen Schwarzmeergebeit.
Gesellschaften und Staaten im Epochenwandel. Oxford, Berlin and New York:
Peter Lang, 2008, 445pp., £24.20 p/b.
Share, Michael, Where Empires Collide: Russian and Soviet Relations with
Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. Hong Kong, The Chinese University Press,
2007, xxiv + 376pp., $55.00 h/b.
Sherlock, Thomas, Historical Narratives in the Soviet Union and Post-
Soviet Russia: Destroying the Settled Past, Creating an Uncertain Future.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, viii +271pp., £42.50 h/b.
Skoda, Diane, La propriété dans le Code civil de la Fédération de Russie:
Un système entre deux traditions. Paris, Éditions Dalloz, 2007, xvi +
756pp., €60.00 p/b.
Strauss, Julia, The History of the PRC (1949-1976). The China Quarterly
Special Issues New Series, No. 7. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2007, ix + 251pp., £16.99 ($32.99) p/b.
Trepanier, Lee, Political Symbols in Russian History: Church, State, and
the Quest for Order and Justice. Lanham, Lexington Books, x + 199pp.,
£49.00 h/b.
Tubilewicz, Czeslaw, Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe: Shopping for
Allies. Routledge Contemporary Asia Series. Abingdon, Routledge, 2007, xiv
+ 242pp., £75.00 h/b.
Turnock, David, Aspects of Independent Romania’s Economic History with
Particular Reference to Transition for EU Accession. Modern Economic and
Social History Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, xxi + 298pp., £60.00 h/b.
Williams, Brad, Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute: Hokkaido—
Sakhalin Relations. London and New York, Routledge, 2007, xvi + 223pp.,
£75.00 h/b.
Young, John F., Federalism, Power and the North: Governmental Reforms in
Russia and Canada. Toronto, Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian
Studies, University of Toronto, xi + 231pp., $18.00 ($20.00 CA) p/b.
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