Books in the Cambridge Russian Paperbacks series

Fourth time around for bestselling text on collapse of Soviet communism. New chapter takes story up to Yeltsin's referendum victory.

This book was the first comprehensive study of Soviet environmental issues and was written by an international specialist on Soviet environmental problems and management. Professor Philip Pryde examines the pervasive nature of biosphere disruption and environmental contaminants in the country and the extent to which they represented a threat to the Soviet populace and its resource base.

This book presents a side of Soviet life that is largely unknown to the West - the world of popular culture. By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, the stage, and television and radio, Professor Richard Stites introduces people and products that are household names to the Soviet people

This volume examines the rise of national movements which challenged, then destroyed, the stability and territorial integrity of the former Soviet state.

In this 1991 work, Pekka Sutela presents a detailed analysis of Soviet economic thought and theory. He traces the competing currents in the Marxist tradition of socialist economies from the Revolution to the present day, showing in particular how the Gorbachev economic reform programme of 1987 rose from the work of Nobel Prize economist L. V. Kantorovich.

This book analyses the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

This is a comprehensive study of Soviet policies in the Middle East. Concentrating on policy developments, Professor Golan analyses the major Soviet decisions and objectives from the end of World War II to the Gorbachev era. She pays particular attention to the wars and crises of recent years and the often problematic development of political relationships in the region.

This is a comprehensive analysis of the forces that are shaping legal reform in the former USSR. The book examines how traditional indigenous Russian legal values, and the 74-year experience with communism and 'socialist legality' are being combined with Western concepts of justice and due process to forge a new legal consciousness in Russia today.

This book was first published in 1989. The Soviet presence and purposes in Latin America are a matter of great controversy, yet no serious study was hitherto combined with a regional perspective and diplomatic analysis, examining the strategic and ideological factors that influence Soviet foreign policy.

This book is a study of Soviet relations with North-east Asia in the 1980s, focusing on the links between Soviet domestic reforms and fundamental changes in Soviet foreign policy. The author uses the concept of foreign policy learning to analyse the motives of Gorbachev's foreign policy reforms.