De ramp van Tsjernobyl in 1986 opende de ogen van de wereld voor de gevaren van kernenergie. Inmiddels is er 20 jaar verstreken en streeft Rusland, onder de dekmantel van het Klimaatverdrag van Kyo...
Anyone raised in another country who goes to live in the <BR>Netherlands soon gets used to it. Just when you think you know and understand <BR>the country and its people, something unexpected will ...
In de Atlas Amsterdam staat de ruimtelijke ontwikkeling van Amsterdam vanaf haar ontstaansgeschiedenis centraal. De Atlas beschrijft de stedelijke structuur, zoals die in de loop der eeuwen gestalt...
Dit is een monumentaal naslagwerk: 560 pagina's met meer dan 2400 kaarten en beelden! De atlas bevat een enorme hoeveelheid informatie over de meest uiteenlopende onderwerpen. Daarbij vind je meer ...
A rare perspective on the Dutch landscape is provided in this stunning collection of more than 300 aerial photographs. Cities, farms, lakes, beaches, and fields of flowers are recognizable from abo...
The second half of the 20th century has seen a gradual conflicting debate between those who ascribe to the causes of poverty due to economic and social structures and those who draw attention to in...
Challenging the claim that workers supported Stalin's revolution "from above" as well as the assumption that working-class opposition to a workers' state was impossible, Jeffrey Rossman shows how ...
Covering two hundred years of corporate capitalism in Russia, from the tzarist period through Perestroika and into the present, this work demonstrates the historical obstacles that have confronted ...
This is the first account of Russia's second revolution - the country's dramatic, wrenching transition from communist central planning to a market economy. Written by one of the finest writers on c...
The Russian media are widely seen to be increasingly controlled by the government. Leaders buy up opposing television channels and pour money in as fast as it hemorrhages out. As a result, TV news ...
This narrative of women's experiences from the seventeenth century to the present evokes the voices of individuals to enhance Barbara Alpern Engel's account of how women of various social strata we...
Since the collapse of the USSR there has been a growing interest in the Stolypin Land Reform as a possible model for post-Communist agrarian development. Using recent theoretical and empirical adva...
This is a major and wide-ranging survey of the social history of Russia from before Peter the Great right through to the post-Napoleonic era. Janet Hartley traces the significant developments of he...
Fedor Chizhov built the first railroad owned entirely by Russian stockholders, created Moscow's first bank and mutual credit society, and launched the first profitable steamship line based in Archa...
This text argues that the General Zemstvo Organization and the All-Russian Union of Zemstvos contributed significantly to the emergence of civil society in late Imperial Russia, and that process ma...
This book examines the economic bases of regional sovereignty movements in the Russian Federation from 1990-1993. The analysis is based on an original data set of Russian regional sovereignty movem...
This admirable work has contributions from an impressive group of specialists who cover the topic comprehensively. Balanced, reasonable transitions in various economic sectors are urged persuasivel...
The end of communist rule in the Soviet Union brought with it a brave new world of media and commerce. Formerly state-owned enterprises were transformed, often through private ownership, and new co...
In 1991, in a huge experiment with a people and in a state of euphoria, Boris Yeltsin abolished the USSR and recreated the Russian nation. At the point of its declaration it was in a state of econo...
Challenging widely held views, this book presents a thorough account of the Russian Mafia. It charts the emergence of the group in the context of the transition to the market, the privatization of ...
This provocative study examines the role of today’s Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world—80 percent fr...
More than fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many issues regarding the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy are still being debated. This book presents an e...
During and after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, a wide range of competitors fought to build new political and economic empires by wresting control over resources from the state and from each ot...
Basing their findings on four years of research during which they studied rural districts drawn from a variety of contrasting regions of European Russia, the authors discuss the place of rural hous...
In 1991, a small group of Russians emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union claiming ownership some of the most valuable petroleum, natural gas and metal deposits in the world. By 1997, five o...
During the Soviet era, blat-the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures-was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies ...
This study is concerned with the collective consequences of social rules. The theoretical analyses take as a starting point the notion of ‘new institutionalism’ in the social sciences. The anal...
What happens when your once-dignified profession no longer supports a dignified lifestyle? In 1990s St. Petersburg, teachers had to find out the hard way. Although the institutions and ideologies...
This ambitious work is the definitive account of Russia's land reform initiatives from the late 1980s to today. In Russia, a country controlling more land than any other nation, land ownership is c...
The end of communism marked the re-emergence of a huge rise in organised crime across Russia and Eastern Europe. High-profile efforts to combat it have met with little success.Patricia Rawlinson ar...
What happened with the urban spaces of everyday life when the Soviet Union collapsed? And how may this change be understood? Based on long-term qualitative fieldwork in post-Soviet Russia, this stu...
In the 1990s, as the Soviet Empire lay in ruins, the Russian and Ukrainian governments undertook a project to dismantle the collective farm system that was created under Stalin and in the process p...
Homelessness became a conspicuous facet of Russian cityscapes only in the 1990s, when the Soviet criminalization of vagrancy and similar offenses was abolished. In spite of the host of social and e...
Environmental activism in contemporary Russia exemplifies both the promise and the challenge facing grassroots politics in the post-Soviet period. In the late Soviet period, Russia's environmental ...
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In 2011 bestaat de Nederlandse televisie zestig jaar. Mediahistoricus Huub Wijfjes constateert dat het medium in die zestig jaar heeft gekampt met eenzijdig negatieve beeldvorming. Hij stelt dat de...
Despite their very different histories, societies, political and legal systems, Russia and the UK stand out as favoring a punitive approach to young law breakers, imprisoning many more children tha...
In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before ...
A state's ability to maintain mandatory conscription and wage war rests on the idea that a "real man" is one who has served in the military. Yet masculinity has no inherent ties to militarism. The ...
This book investigates the relationship between the character of political regimes in Russia's subnational regions and the structure of earnings and income. Based on extensive data from Russian off...
David Tuller provides the first look into the emotional and sexual lives of Russian lesbians and gays and the pervasive influence of the state on gay life. Part travelogue, part social history, and...
De menselijke geschiedenis is er een van voortdurende schaarste aan voedsel. De overvloed die in de laatste decennia voor velen is ontstaan, is zo uitzonderlijk dat wij nog niet hebben geleerd erme...
This book provides a comprehensive account of Dutch history in the 'long' nineteenth century. In this fascinating and instructive period the country saw extremely rapid population growth, awesome d...
The Dutch Atlantic investigates the Dutch involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society. Kwame Nimako and Glenn Wil...
This groundbreaking book is the first to study the cultural history of advertising in imperial Russia. In the first part of the book, West describes the development of advertising as an industry, d...
Vertaling uit het Russisch van 'Vremiia Second Hand'. Oral History van de Wit-Russische journaliste Alexijevitsj, waarin na de omwenteling herinneringen worden opgehaald aan vrijwel alle facetten v...
Nearly a century has passed since Kropotkin wrote this book yet his criticisms of the penal system are still relevant. It is his own experience in prison, both in France and in Russia, that gives t...
Although 1989 and 1991 witnessed more spectacular events, 1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party's monopoly on political p...
This study offers both an account of twentieth-century technology in the Netherlands and a view of Dutch history through the lens of technology. It describes the trajectory of modernization through...
Through interviews with 40 human rights practitioners, this dissertation broadens our knowledge as to how international litigation before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) (a) contributes ...
'Een virtuoos boek: een combinatie van messcherpe analyses en schitterend opgetekende, uit het leven gegrepen scenes en verhalen. Pomerantsev heeft een ragfijn gevoel voor het absurde. Hij maakt he...