A difficult neighbourhood : essays on Russia and East-Central Europe since World War II /
Through a series of essays on key events in recent years in Russia, the western ex-republics of the USSR and the countries of the one-time Warsaw Pact, John Besemeres seeks to illuminate the domestic politics of the most important states, as well as Moscow's relations with all of them. At the o...
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Twentieth-century Poland : war and Cold War
- Seven days that shook the world
- A difficult neighbourhood
- Jan Karski's valiant failures
- The worst of both worlds : Captain Witold Pilecki between Hitler and Stalin
- Speaking truth to power and prejudice
- Part 2. Poland and Russia since the fall of communism: drawing apart
- Poland/Russia : peace or ceasefire?
- Heading west, heading east : impressions from Warsaw and Moscow
- Poland at the polls : a win for pragmatism
- Poland's EU presidency : drawing the short straw
- Part 3. Turning points in Ukraine and Belarus
- Ukraine: a sharp turn eastwards?
- In Belarus, the leopard flaunts his spots
- Part 4. Russia and the former Soviet republics : Putinisation at home and abroad
- Russia and its western neighbours : a watershed moment
- Russia's elections: leaving little to chance
- Putin's Ceauşescu moment
- Setbacks at home, successes abroad : the mixed fortunes of Vladimir Putin
- Putin's phoney war
- Re-enter Putin, weakened and resentful
- The real Mr Putin stands up
- Towards a greater Putistan? Part 1
- Towards a greater Putistan? Part 2; Will Putin survive until 2018?
- Putin's re-Sovietisation project and the Ukrainian jewel
- Vladimir Putin : geopolitical wrecking ball
- Putin's annus mirabilis
- Part 5. Putin reverts to cold war : changing the shape of Eurasia
- Putin's last territorial demand
- Ukraine : time to cut a deal?
- Russian disinformation and Western misconceptions
- Putin's parallel universe
- Putin's Westpolitik : back to the USSR
- Peace in our time
- Ukraine conflict exposes Western weakness on Russia
- Bling and propaganda in an ethics-free zone
- Making nice and making enemies
- Ukraine, out of sight
- Map 1: Russia and its western neighbours
- Map 2: Ethno-linguistic map of Ukraine.
- Map 3: The South Caucasian states: Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.