Founded in 2004 and refereed since 2007, SPPS makes available, to the academic community and general public, affordable English-, German- and Russian-language scholarly studies of various empirical aspects of the recent history and current affairs of the former Soviet bloc from the late Tsarist period to today. It publishes approximately 15-20 volumes per year, and focuses on issues in transitions to and from democracy such as economic crisis, identity formation, civil society development, and constitutional reform in CEE and the NIS. SPPS also aims to highlight so far understudied themes in East European studies such as right-wing radicalism, religious life, higher education, or human rights protection.
All SPPS volumes are peer-reviewed.
Authors, reviewers, referees and editors for, as well as all other persons sympathetic to, the project Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society are invited to join the series' free LinkedIn networking group at: FacebookLinkedIn Xing
The Series Editor: Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
With a foreword by John Paul Himka and David R. Marples
€59.90
ibidem
680 Pages
This book investigates state-building, distorted identities, and separatism in the Republic of Moldova. It presents research on the historical preconditions and spread of the secessionist movement in Transnistria,...
A Comparative Analysis Through the Prism of a Two-Level Game Approach
€39.90
ibidem
426 Pages
The escalating rivalry between the EU and Russia in their shared neighborhood creates important economic, political, and legal challenges for the so-called states-in-between — Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova,...
Ukraine is again—since its annexation of Crimea in February 2014 and the ongoing war in the Donbass—the stage of the largest crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold War. When it comes to understanding...
Egon Bondy, Miroslav Kusý, Milan Šimečka und Petr Uhl (1968-1989)
€49.90
ibidem
554 Pages
Das politische Denken im östlichen Mitteleuropa gehört nach wie vor zu den vernachlässigten Themen der politischen Ideengeschichtsschreibung. Diese Lücke versucht Dirk Mathias Dalberg mit seiner interpretativen...
How Ukraine’s Political Economy Regime Survived the Crisis
€34.90
ibidem
326 Pages
How did the Ukrainian oligarchy survive the institutional disruption of the Euromaidan revolt of 2013/2014? How did it manage to continue its extractive political and economic practices, amid deep changes...
Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical Thought
With a foreword by Christopher Donohue
€29.90
ibidem
376 Pages
The East European nations’ common past in the Soviet Union connects them in terms of both their political histories and the evolution of their philosophical thought. The USSR’s dissolution created...
Russkie emigranty, pokinuvshie svoiu stranu posle pobedy bol´shevistskoi revolutsii, stali svideteliami i zhertvami pervoi v istorii popytki prevrashcheniia totalitarnoi utopii v deistvitel´nost´. ...
"Aleksandr Prokhanov (born 1938) is a prizewinning novelist and also, as editor of the weekly newspaper Zavtra, a leading figure in Russian ‘imperial patriotism’. Ever since 1991, when he signed (and...
This volume delves into a key part of the comprehensive Russian administrative and territorial reform of the 2000s—the merger of six previously separate ethno-national regions into larger constituent...
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...