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.

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  1. Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War?

    Jakob Hauter

    Civil War? Interstate War? Hybrid War?

    Dimensions and Interpretations of the Donbas Conflict in 2014–2020
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    236 Pages
    This volume of collected papers takes stock of what has become known about the war in eastern Ukraine’s Donets Basin (Donbas) between April 2014 and mid-2020. It provides an introduction to the conflict...
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  2. Post-Soviet Secessionism

    Daria Isachenko, Mykhailo Minakov, Gwendolyn Sasse

    Post-Soviet Secessionism

    Nation-Building and State-Failure after Communism
    €34.90
    ibidem
    260 Pages
    The USSR’s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their polities...
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  3. Russian Active Measures

    Olga Bertelsen

    Russian Active Measures

    Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
    €45.90
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    396 Pages
    The contributions gathered in this fascinating collection, in which scholars from a diverse range of disciplines share their perspectives on Russian covert activities known as Russian active measures,...
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  4. Public Policy and Politics in Georgia

    Tima T. Moldogaziev, Gene A. Brewer, J. Edward Kellough

    Public Policy and Politics in Georgia

    Lessons from Post-Soviet Transition
    €34.90
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    332 Pages
    After the break-up of the USSR, the former Soviet countries took different paths. While many of them face severe economic problems or have become only questionably democratic, Georgia’s socio-political...
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  5. “Optimizing” Higher Education in Russia

    David Mandel

    “Optimizing” Higher Education in Russia

    University Teachers and their Union Universitetskaya solidarnost’
    €24.90
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    156 Pages
    In 2012, soon after his election to a third presidential term as president, following a four-year stint as prime minister (to avoid modifying the constitution), and in the wake of an unprecedented wave...
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  6. Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm

    Steven Jobbitt, Zsolt Bottlik, Marton Berki

    Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm

    Geographies of Ethnicity and Nationality after 1991
    €34.90
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    328 Pages
    With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Cold War’s bipolar world order, Soviet successor states on the Russian periphery found themselves in a geopolitical vacuum, and gradually...
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  7. UKAPISME - Une Gauche perdue

    Christopher Ford

    UKAPISME - Une Gauche perdue

    Le marxisme anti-colonial dans la révolution ukrainienne 1917 - 1925
    €45.90
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    422 Pages
    Les marxistes ukrainiens ont joué un rôle de premier plan dans la révolution ukrainien. Organisés au sein du Parti ouvrier social-démocrate ukrainien, ils ont construit un Parti communiste ukrainien...
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  8. Russian Voices on Post-Crimea Russia

    Maria Lipman

    Russian Voices on Post-Crimea Russia

    An Almanac of Counterpoint Essays from 2015–2018
    €39.90
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    354 Pages
    Russia has changed dramatically since the beginning of this decade. This volume presents a unique collection of articles by Russian scholars and experts, originally published in Russian in the journal...
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  9. Geopolitical Imagination

    Mikhail Suslov

    Geopolitical Imagination

    Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia
    €34.90
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    302 Pages
    In his timely book, Mikhail Suslov discusses contemporary Russian geopolitical culture and argues that a better knowledge of geopolitical concepts and fantasies is instrumental for understanding Russia’s...
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  10. Erinnerungsort: Ort des Gedenkens, der Erholung oder der Einkehr?

    Daria Buteiko

    Erinnerungsort: Ort des Gedenkens, der Erholung oder der Einkehr?

    Kommunismus-Erinnerung an einem historischen Ort am Beispiel der Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer sowie des Soloveckij-Klosters und -Museumsparks
    €59.90
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    540 Pages
    Kloster, Vorbild für den Aufbau des Gulag-Systems, Museum und schließlich wieder Kloster – die Geschichte der russischen Soloveckij-Inseln erscheint turbulent und zirkular. Wie ist der Ort heute zu...
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