Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

This Issue deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states.

This issue's special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and Russian narratives of national identity.

The journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for new original research on the Soviet and post-Soviet world.

The major aim of the issue is to go beyond the narratives of dictatorship and authoritarianism and that of a never-ending story of failed Belarusian nationalism.

The issue approaches the problem of violence in the post-Soviet space from three perspectives: The international-structural, inter-state, and domestic-political.

The issue explores the questions of agency of less mainstream groups in protest movements in patriarchal and authoritarian societies.

This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89).

The Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping how it is perceived.