Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Editor: Dr. Andreas Umland

ISSN 1614-3515 (print)
ISSN 2940-5718 (online)

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.

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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.

Please send your manuscript proposals to Andreas Umland.

 

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  1. Ukraine’s Fateful Years 2013–2019: Vol. II: The Annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbas
    €79.90
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    796 Pages
    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...
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  2. Decentralization and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine

    Valentyna Romanova

    Decentralization and Multilevel Elections in Ukraine

    Reform Dynamics and Party Politics in 2010–2021
    €29.90
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    220 Pages
    The post-2014 decentralization policy is consolidating the center-periphery relations in Ukraine. Already before 2014, domestic policymakers had been drafting proposals for local amalgamation and an increase...
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  3. National Questions: Theoretical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe
    €29.90
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    312 Pages
    Combining social science with the multi-disciplinarity of area studies, Alexander Motyl discusses in fifteen essays the malleability and modernity of national identity, the attractions and limits of social...
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  4. Ukraine in Central and Eastern Europe

    Sebastian Schäffer

    Ukraine in Central and Eastern Europe

    Kyiv's Foreign Affairs and the International Relations of the Post-Communist Region
    €39.90
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    376 Pages
    The geopolitics of post-communist Europe are not only important for Ukraine itself, but ultimately also for the future of the continent as a whole. This concerns the interactions between Kyiv, on the one...
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  5. Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemprary Ukraine III

    Pawel Kowal, Iwona Reichardt, Kateryna Pryshchepa

    Three Revolutions: Mobilization and Change in Contemprary Ukraine III

    Archival Records and Historical Sources on the 1990 Revolution on Granite
    €49.90
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    412 Pages
    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. They include telegrams sent to participants...
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  6. Constructing the Limits of Europe

    Rumena Filipova

    Constructing the Limits of Europe

    Identity and Foreign Policy in Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia since 1989
    €49.90
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    495 Pages
    This comparative study harks back to the revolutionary year of 1989 and asks two critical questions about the resulting reconfiguration of Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of communism: Why did...
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  7. Soviet and Post-Soviet Foreign Policies I

    Robert M. Cutler

    Soviet and Post-Soviet Foreign Policies I

    East-South Relations and the Political Economy of the Communist Bloc, 1971–1991
    €34.90
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    206 Pages
    This collection of studies investigates the political economy of international relations between the Soviet bloc (the “East”) and the developing world (the “South”), spanning the entire post-Stalin...
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  8. How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime

    Oleksandra Keudel

    How Patronal Networks Shape Opportunities for Local Citizen Participation in a Hybrid Regime

    A Comparative Analysis of Five Cities in Ukraine
    €54.90
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    530 Pages
    Oleksandra Keudel proposes a novel explanation for why some local governments in hybrid regimes enable citizen participation while others restrict it. She argues that mechanisms for citizen participation...
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  9. On the Verge of History

    Izabella Agardi

    On the Verge of History

    Life Stories of Rural Women from Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, 1920–2020
    €49.90
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    484 Pages
    Rural women have not had a formative role in the public histories of Central Eastern Europe. Izabella Agárdi aims to correct that by concentrating on their life stories and their connections to general...
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  10. Macht und Ohnmacht der Utopien: Essays zur Geschichte Russlands im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert
    €45.90
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    396 Pages
    Im Oktober 1917 errichteten die Bolschewiki in Russland das erste totalitäre Regime der Moderne, den ersten Staat, der die von Marx und Engels bereits im „Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei“ entwickelte...
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