Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

»Wir werden alle darauf trainiert, Angst zu haben«, sagte Maria Aljochina von der Punkband Pussy Riot in ihrem letzten Wort vor Gericht 2021 in Moskau. »Aber ein Käfig aus Angst ist schlimmer als ein Käfig aus Glas und Eisen. Man muss die Einstellung ›Ich kann ja doch nichts bewirken‹ ...

Gian Marco Moisé explores the various ways in which corruption and informal governance converged and were shaped by everchanging power dynamics.

The post-Soviet Human attempted to establish free politics and economy, as well as to gain collective emancipation and personal freedom between 1989 and 2022.

Der Krieg in der Ukraine begann nicht am 24. Februar 2022. Er begann acht Jahre zuvor in der ostukrainischen Donbas-Region. In seinem vielbeachteten Buch untersucht Jakob Hauter die Eskalation der Gewalt im Frühjahr und Sommer 2014. Er zeigt, dass es sich bei dem Konflikt auch bereits vor ...

This book examines the powers of the UN General Assembly and the legal character of its resolutions from 2014 through 2023 on anspects of the Russo-Ukrainan war.

Based on interviews in the Russian-controlled Donbas with Ukrainian combatants, this book discloses dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and fighting.

In this war, the ukrainian resistance is a defense of a rules-based order, democracy, fundamental human rights, and the right to self-determination.

This book analyzes security developments in Lithuania since 1988, a period marked by liberation, the collapse of the USSR, and the integration into NATO.

This book illustrates specific problems and repercussions of Ukraine’s ongoing local governance reform as well as wartime challenges.

Ukraine expert Schneider-Deters intervenes in the debate on Russia's war against Ukraine with essays written during the winter of war in Kyiv in 2022/2023.

The book views the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity as an ongoing process in which societal, economic, political, and institutional developments are intertwined.

This book delves into the complex and often contradictory relations between the South Caucasus and European Union (EU).

This book examines the process of re-establishment of Jewish communities in two post-war European cities

This book breaks into the black box of Russian cultural diplomacy’s ideological underpinnings and modi operandi.

This study examines the presidencies of Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Shekhovtsov’s essays delve into practices of Russian political warfare designed to advance Moscow’s objectives in European countries and certain African states.

The book’s contributors investigate how the Kremlin’s recent turbo-charging of Russia’s information warfare has expanded on traditional pro-Russian sentiments.

The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022 - Jakob Hauter investigates the escalation of violence in the spring and summer of 2014.

Eta kniga — rezul'tat mnogoletnego issledovaniia o seksualizirovannom nasilii nad zhenshchinami v Vengrii vo Vtoroi mirovoi voine. S pomoshch'iu arkhivnykh istochnikov, interv'iu i lichnykh dnevnikov Andrea Peto vosstanavlivaet dramatichnyi opyt vengerskikh zhenshchin, udeliaia osoboe vnimanie ...

Overall, this book furnishes important insights into uncertainty in political life and how the discipline of political science is coming to terms with it.

Leukavets applies here Putnam’s two-level game-theoretical approach in combination with findings from Europeanization literature and democracy promotion studies.

This book investigates state-building, distorted identities, and separatism in the Republic of Moldova.

Dietrich sheds light on a critical yet politically practicable notion of cosmopolitanism which centers on the individual and is framed by a set of universal principles.

Dalbergs demokratietheoretisch und ideengeschichtlich analysierte Denken ist Ausdruck eines Ideentransfers westlicher sowie östlicher politische Gedanken.

This book traces the conversion of wealth into political influence through vote-buying and of the transformation of political influence back into wealth.

The book analyzes the philosophical enterprise over the last thirty to forty years in Belarus, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Russkie emigranty, pokinuvshie svoiu stranu posle pobedy bol´shevistskoi revolutsii, stali svideteliami i zhertvami pervoi v istorii popytki prevrashcheniia totalitarnoi utopii v deistvitel´nost´. Mnogie iz nikh poniali, chto sobytiia 1917 g. byli lish´ pervym aktom obshcheevropieskoi ...

This book seeks to understand him as perhaps the most eminent representative of a school of thought that is here defined as ‘post-Soviet esotericism’.

This volume delves into a key part of the comprehensive Russian administrative and territorial reform of the 2000s.

This book provides a detailed narrative analysis of the historic events in and around Ukraine from 2013 to 2019. These years were almost as significant for Ukraine as the achievement of independence in 1991. That was because Ukraine was in danger of losing its independence again after the ...

This book provides a detailed narrative analysis of the historic events in and around Ukraine from 2013 to 2019. These years were almost as significant for Ukraine as the achievement of independence in 1991. That was because Ukraine was in danger of losing its independence again after the ...

Methodologically, the book illustrates the added value of investigating elections from a multilevel perspective.

Motyl questions conventional wisdom, exposes its inconsistencies and weaknesses, and encourages readers to rethink their views.

This volume examines which interests and motivations some select countries in East-Central Europe and the Caucasus have towards Ukraine.

The third instalment of this multi-volume project presents a selection of archival sources from the time of Ukraine’s Revolution on Granite in October 1990.

Filipova argues that Poland’s, Bulgaria’s, and Russia’s dominating conceptions of national identity have shaped these countries’ foreign policy behavior.

This collection investigates the political economy of international relations between the Soviet bloc (the “East”) and the developing world (the “South”).

Oleksandra Keudel proposes a novel explanation for why some local governments in hybrid regimes enable citizen participation while others restrict it.

Agárdi traces the interactions between micro- and macro- narratives and the specific tools women of this generation appropriate to talk about traumatic memories.

1917 errichteten die Bolschewiki in Russland das erste totalitäre Regime der Moderne, das die von Marx und Engels entwickelte Utopie zu verwirklichen suchte.

Es wird insbesondere die Komplexität des Konflikts in und um die Ukraine seit Beginn der Euromaidan-Revolution Ende 2013 verdeutlicht.

The contributors delves deeper into recent theoretical constructions of various post-Soviet majorities, the ideologies, and some policy prescriptions.

This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR.

This book examines the evolution of post-Euromaidan de-Sovietization beyond the issues of toppling of old statues and implementation of new anti-totalitarian laws.

Bo Petersson analyzes the legitimization strategies employed during Vladimir Putin’s third and fourth terms in office.

The book works with a multi-level approach to the analysis of engagements with the lost diversity in historical urban milieus full of post-war voids and ruptures.

This study examines the historical development of the ROC’s arguments against modernization and analyzes which positions ended up influencing the doctrine.

This book provides a theoretical model to analyze city spaces, based on the use of theories from political science, urban planning, and sociology.

The church’s present-day posture on religious pluralism gets contextualized by appealing both to historical experience and insights of Rational Choice Theory.

This study explores the emergence and recent transformation of modern norms of recognition, secession, and self-determination in international law.