English Translation Now Available: Katharina Bluhm’s “Russia and the West”
News from May 12, 2026
We are pleased to announce the publication of the English translation of Russia and the West: Ideology, Economy, and Politics in the Post-Soviet Era by Katharina Bluhm, Professor of Sociology at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
First published in German in late 2023, the English edition makes this essential work accessible to a wider scholarly audience and covers important developments through 2025.
"A comprehensive study of the ideas and ideologies that have shaped Russia since 1991. Bluhm makes an important contribution to understanding Russia's political system today and, ultimately, the war against Ukraine." — Gwendolyn Sasse, Humboldt University of Berlin