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,...
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...
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 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"...
"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...
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...
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...
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.
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 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...
The religious situation in Russia drastically changed after the collapse of communism. The Soviet state aimed to overcome religion and replace it with a scientific atheistic world-view. A massive system...
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...
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...
"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...
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.
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...
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...
When we speak about European values we often actually refer to political interests. In political debate European values and identity are constantly used to support several different and even contradictory...
The influence of religion has increased in Russian society since the collapse of communism. All indicators of religiosity show an upward trend. This is the case especially among the younger generation....
For many people in Russia today, everyday life appears to be a series of traps. According to C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination, this sense of being trapped arises from seemingly impersonal...
The Roots and Routes of Democracy and Extremism is the first book published to comprehensively explore the underlying dimensions of promotion of democracy and containment of extremism in the most turbulent...
Articles by Mikhail Gorbachev, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Reino Paasilinna, Jukka Pietiläinen, Andrei Raskin, Andrei Richter, Elena Vartanova, Ivan Zassoursky and Yassen Zassoursky.
