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. Brüssel zwischen Kyjiw und Moskau: Das auswärtige Handeln der Europäischen Union im ukrainisch-russischen Konflikt 2014-2019
    €49.90
    ibidem
    436 Pages
    Der Sieg der Euromaidan-Revolution, russische Anschluss der Krim und Beginn des Krieges im Donbas im Laufe des Jahres 2014 waren Glieder einer sich bis heute fortsetzenden hochkomplexen Ereigniskette....
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  2. The Years of Great Silence

    Jonathan Otto Pohl

    The Years of Great Silence

    The Deportation, Special Settlement, and Mobilization into the Labor Army of Ethnic Germans in the USSR, 1941–1955
    €34.90
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    298 Pages
    This monograph provides a detailed yet concise narrative of the history of the ethnic Germans in the Russian Empire and USSR. It starts with the settlement in the Russian Empire by German colonists in...
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  3. Inventing Majorities

    Mikhail Minakov

    Inventing Majorities

    Ideological Creativity in Post-Soviet Societies
    €49.90
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    388 Pages
    The recent history of post-Soviet societies is heavily shaped by the successor nations’ efforts to geopolitically re-identify themselves and to reify certain majorities in them. As a result of these...
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  4. Between Lenin and Bandera

    Anna Kutkina

    Between Lenin and Bandera

    Decommunization and Multivocality in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine
    €39.90
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    328 Pages
    On 8 December 2013, Ukraine’s central Lenin monument in Kyiv was pulled down. In the following months, in what became known as the “Leninfall,” Ukraine swept away hundreds of communist monuments,...
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  5. Diversity in the East-Central European Borderlands

    Eleonora Narvselius, Julie Fedor

    Diversity in the East-Central European Borderlands

    Memories, Cityscapes, People
    €49.90
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    436 Pages
    Built on up-to-date field material, this edited volume suggests an anthropological approach to the palimpsest-like milieus of Wrocław, Lviv, Chernivtsi, and Chişinău. In these East-Central European...
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  6. The Russian Orthodox Church and Modernity

    Regina Elsner

    The Russian Orthodox Church and Modernity

    A Historical and Theological Investigation into Eastern Christianity between Unity and Plurality
    €49.90
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    388 Pages
    The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) faced various iterations of modernization throughout its history. This conflicted encounter continues in the ROC’s current resistance against—what it perceives as—Western...
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  7. Urban Protest

    Arve Hansen

    Urban Protest

    A Spatial Perspective on Kyiv, Minsk, and Moscow
    €39.90
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    382 Pages
    Urban space is an important part of the political environment—a place where people congregate to discuss, deliberate, and interact with each other. In times of great public discontent, people often turn...
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  8. The Putin Predicament

    Bo Petersson

    The Putin Predicament

    Problems of Legitimacy and Succession in Russia
    €34.90
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    224 Pages
    Using the Russian president’s major public addresses as the main source, Bo Petersson analyzes the legitimization strategies employed during Vladimir Putin’s third and fourth terms in office. The argument...
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  9. Defending the Faith

    Lincoln E. Flake

    Defending the Faith

    The Russian Orthodox Church and the Demise of Religious Pluralism 
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    282 Pages
    Freedom of religious expression and assembly has never been under greater threat in post-Soviet Russia. The infamous Yarovaya Law of 2016 has made good on previous legislative endeavors to curtail the...
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  10. NATO’s Enlargement and Russia

    Oxana Schmies

    NATO’s Enlargement and Russia

    A Strategic Challenge in the Past and Future
    €39.90
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    284 Pages
    The Kremlin has sought to establish an exclusive Russian sphere of influence in the nations lying between Russia and the EU, from Georgia in 2008 to Ukraine in 2014 and Belarus in 2020. It has extended...
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