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Russia & Eurasia / Brent Hierman.

by Hierman, Brent, author.

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Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.

Russia (Federation) -- History.

Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government.

Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations.

Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government.

Former Soviet republics -- Foreign relations.

Eurasia -- History.

Eurasia -- Politics and government.

Eurasia -- Foreign relations.

1475835167 (paperback)

9781475835168 (paperback)

World today series.

viii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

The Russian Federation -- (The land and the people -- History -- The communist era -- Stalin's revolution of the 1930s -- The post-Stalin era -- The Brezhnev era -- Government transition -- The Gorbachev era -- An independent Russia is born -- The Putin Presidency -- Russian foreign policy since independence -- Government of the Russian Federation -- Constitution of the Russian Federation -- Culture -- The changing economy) -- The Commonwealth of Independent States -- (Collapse of the Soviet Union -- Commonwealth of Independent States -- Economy under the CIS -- Some regional problems of the CIS) -- Western Republics -- (Belarus -- Ukraine -- Moldova) -- Transcaucasian Republics -- (Armenia -- Azerbaijan -- Georgia) -- Central Asian Republics -- (Kazakhstan -- Kyrgyzstan -- Tajikistan -- Turkmenistan -- Uzbekistan).

Provides information on the twelve independent republics that became members of the Commonwealth of Independent States following the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1992. The text focuses strongly on recent economic and political developments with shorter sections dealing with foreign policy, the military, religion, education, and specific cultural elements that help to define each republic and differentiate one from the other.

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