Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and Europe Since 1989

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Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and Europe Since 1989 is written by Katherine Graney and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190055111 (ISBN 10) and 9780190055110 (ISBN 13).

This book explores what the concept of "being European" means to people in Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union. Katherine Graney provides a panoramic and historically rooted overview of politics in the post-Soviet world, focusing in particular on how Europe--as both real place and symbol--has structured the political trajectory of this vast region. In sum, Graney provides both a theoretical discussion of contemporary Europeanness, and an empirical examination of how Russia and each of the fourteen former Soviet states are actually attempting to "be European," or not.