Drawing on both international and Russian sources, expert analyses, and empirical data, this essay collection examines the real state of political, economic and social affairs in Russia. It explores the nature of the political regime, the rhetoric of Russian state propaganda, and delves into existing and potential socio-political divisions. The contributors also scrutinize ethno-national dynamics within the pseudo-federation, Russia’s “claims” on Ukraine, and the concept of “World Order Z.” This “new world order”, which Russia attempts to establish through what it calls a “special military operation” against Ukraine, is analyzed as a tool for constructing an international system on Russian terms.
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Galyna Zelenko
Prof. Galyna Zelenko is Head of the Department of Political Institutions and Processes at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NANU), in Kyiv. She is a member of the Board of the International Political Science Association, NANU’s Commission on European Integration and the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science Expert Group on Evaluating Social Science Institutions. Zelenko is author of more than 200 research papers as well as two monographs, and editor of 36 collective volumes.
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Oles Lisnychuk
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Volodymyr Nahirnyi
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Iryna Pavlenko
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Mykola Riabchuk
Dr. Mykola Riabchuk studied history and literary theory in Moscow in 1985–1988. During the 1990s, he co-edited the leading Ukrainian intellectual journals Vsesvit, Suchasnist, and Krytyka. Since 2012, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Nationalities’ Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Riabchuk served as a Fulbright Fellow at Penn State University, the University of Texas, and George Washington University, Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC, Reuters Fellow at Oxford, Milena Jesenska and EURIAS Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Ramsay Tompkins Professor at the University of Alberta, and Ukrainian Studies Fellow at Harvard. Riabchuk is Honorary President of the Ukrainian PEN Center and Jury Head for the Angelus International Literary Award. His previous books include From ‘Little Russia’ to Ukraine (Krytyka / Universitas 2000; L’Harmattan / Markovic 2003); Two Ukraines: Real Borders and Virtual Wars (Krytyka 2003; KEW 2004; Örökség Kultúrpolitikai Intézet 2015); Die reale und die imaginierte Ukraine (Suhrkamp 2005); Gleichschaltung: Authoritarian Consolidation in Ukraine, 2010-2012 (KIS 2012); Postcolonial Syndrome (KIS 2011; KEW 2015).
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Andriy Starodub
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| Edited by | Galyna Zelenko |
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| Contributions by | Oles Lisnychuk, Volodymyr Nahirnyi, Iryna Pavlenko, Mykola Riabchuk, Andriy Starodub |
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246
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8,3 in x 5,8 in
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Paperback
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30.11.2025
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English
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978-3-8382-1997-4
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347 g
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“The authors of this volume seek to find out whether Russia is really the ‘great Russia’ that scares the whole world, and what really stands behind its desire to ‘solve the Ukrainian question’.”
—Dmytro Shevchuk, Vice-Rector, National University of Ostroh Academy
“This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to seriously understand what is happening in Russia now and what may happen there tomorrow.”
—Oleksiy Panych, Member of the Ukrainian Center, PEN Club, Kyiv