***Forwarded on behalf of Hazel Mackenzie, Journal Administrative 
Assistant, Europe-Asia Studies**


Dear All,

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.

With thanks and best wishes,

Hazel

Hazel Mackenzie
Journal Administrative Assistant
Europe-Asia Studies
Department of Central and East European Studies
8-9 Lilybank Gardens
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8RZ
Scotland, UK

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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.

Antić, Čedomir, Neutrality as Independence: Great Britain, Serbia and the 
Crimean War. Belgrade, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts,  2007, 235pp. 
h/b.

Arrighi, Giovanni, Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First 
Century. London and New York: Verso, xiv +418pp., £25 h/b. 

Baron, Nick, The King of Karelia: Col P.J. Woods and the British 
Intervention in North Russia 1918-1919, A History and Memoir. London: 
Francis Boutle Publishers, 2007, 345pp., £12.99 p/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.

Batory, Agnes, The Politics of EU Accession: Ideology, Party Strategy and 
the European Question in Hungary.  Europe in Change Series. Manchester and 
New York: Manchester University Press, 2008, viii + 176pp., £55.00 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. 

Borzęcki, Jerzy, The Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of 
Interwar Europe.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008, xvi + 
401pp., £35.00 h/b.

Bracke, Maud, Which Socialism, Whose Détente? West European Communism and 
the Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968.  Budapest and New York: Central European 
University Press, 2007, vi + 414pp., £24.95 h/b.

Crate, Susan, A., Cows, Kin and Globalization: An Ethnography of 
Sustainability. Lanham, AltaMira Press, xxvii + 355pp., £19.99 p/b.

Doyle, Randall, America and China: Asia-Pacific Rim Hegemony in the Twenty 
First Century. Plymouth: Lexington, 2007, xix + 202pp., £18.99 p/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.

Farkas, Richard P., Democratization in the Balkans: Prescription for a 
Badly Scarred Body Politic. Northeastern Series on Democratization and 
Political Development. Boston, Hanover and London: Northeastern University 
Press / University Press of New England, 2007, xi + 135pp.,  $29.95 p/b.

Florescu, Radu, General Ioan Emanoil Florescu: Organizer of the Romanian 
Army. East European Monographs. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, 
x + 107pp., £23.50 h/b. 

Gao, Mobo, The Battle for China’s Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution. 
London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2008, xi + 270pp., £18.99 p/b.

Gill, Graeme, Bourgeoisie, State and Democracy: Russia, Britain, France, 
Germany and the USA. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, x 
+385pp., £50.00 h/b.

Grachev, Andrei, Gorbachev’s Gamble: Soviet Foreign Policy & the End of 
the Cold War. Cambridge: Polity, 2008, xiii + 271pp., £20.00 h/b. 

Hughes, Lindsey, The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613-1917. London and New 
York: Continuum, 2008, xviii + 308pp., £20.00 h/b. 

Johnston, Alastair Iain, Social States: China in International 
Institutions 1980-2000. Princeton Studies in International History and 
Politics. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, xxvii + 
254pp., £14.95 p/b.

Kideckel, David A., Getting by in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body 
and Working-Class Culture.  Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana 
University Press, 2008, xiv + 269pp., $24.95 p/b. 

Kochenov, Dimitry, EU Enlargement and the Failure of Conditionality: Pre 
accession Conditionality in the Fields of Democracy and the Rule of Law. 
European Monographs. Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 2008, 
xxxvii + 362pp., £85.00 h/b. 

Kravchenko, Zhanna, Family (versus) Policy: Combining Work and Care in 
Russia and Sweden. Stockholm Studies in Sociology. Stockhom: Acta 
Universitatis Stockhomiensis, 2008, 189pp., SEK 275 p/b. 

Landis, Erik C., Bandits and Partisans: The Antonov Movement in the 
Russian Civil War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008, xxii 
+ 381pp., $50.00 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.

Lincoln, W. Bruce, The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians. 
Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2007, xxii + 500pp., $25.00 
(£12.50) p/b.

Macrakis, Kristie, Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xx + 370pp., 
(US$28.00) £19.99 h/b.  

Marsh, Rosalind, Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 
1991-2006. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2007, 594pp., £68.00 p/b.

Melkonian, Markar, My Brother’s Road: An American’s Fateful Journey to 
Armenia. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007, xviii + 330pp., £12.99 
p/b.

Morrisey, Susan K., Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia. 
Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge 
University Press, 2006, xv + 384pp., £55.00 h/b.

Overholt, William H., Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics. 
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xliv +322pp., 
£14.99  p/b.

Peacock, James L., Thornton, Patricia M. & Inman, Patrick B. (eds), 
Identity Matters: Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict. New York and Oxford, 
Berghahn Books, 2007, xi + 244pp., $27.50 (£17.50) p/b.

Pelkmans, Mathijs, Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity 
in the Republic of Georgia. Ithaca, NY, and London, Cornell University 
Press, xvi + 240pp., $59.95 (£12.95) h/b.

Pickering, Paula M., Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The View from the 
Ground Floor. London and Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007, viii + 
242pp., £20.50 h/b. 

Pirana, Simon, The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24: Soviet Workers 
and the New Communist Elite. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East 
European Studies. London and New York: Routledge, 2008, xvi +289pp., 
£80.00 h/b. 

Procaccia, Uriel, Russian Culture, Property Rights, and the Market 
Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xi + 297pp., £45.00 
($75.00) h/b.

Raiklin, Ernest, Socioeconomic Systems of Russia since the 1850s. Journal 
of Social, Political and Economic Studies Monograph Number 33. Washington 
D.C.: Council for Social and Economic Studies, 2008, xx + 732pp., $48.00 
p/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.

Salmenniemi, Suvi, Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia. 
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies. London and 
New York: Routledge, xiv + 264pp., £80.00 h/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. 

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.

Siegelbaum, Lewis H., Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet 
Automobile. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2008, xviii + 
309pp., $39.95 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. 

Smith, S.A., Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative 
History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, viii + 249pp., 
£17.00 p/b. 

Spechler, Martin C., The Political Economy of Reform in Central Asia: 
Uzbekistan under Authoriarianism. Central Asia Research Forum. London and 
New York: Routledge, 2008, viii + 172pp., £80.00 h/b

Spirova, Maria, Political Parties in Post-Communist Societies: Formation, 
Persistence and Change. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xii + 
220pp., £42.50 h/b. 

Stadelmann, Matthias, Die Romanovs. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2008, 
276pp., €19.80 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.

Trochev, Alexei, Judging Russia: Constitutional Court in Russian Politics 
1990-2006. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, xii 
+371pp., £50.00 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.

Wettig, Gerhard, Stalin and the Cold War in Europe: The Emergence and 
Development of East-West Conflict, 1939-1953. The Harvard Cold War Studies 
Book Series. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, viii +285pp., £56.00 
h/b.

Williams, Brad, Resolving the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute: Hokkaido 
Sakhalin Relations. London and New York, Routledge, 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.

Zubok, Vladislav M., A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War 
from Stalin to Gorbachev. The New Cold War History Series. Chapel Hill: 
University of North Carolina Press, 2007, xvi + 468pp., $39.95 h/b.  

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