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 and indexed by Scopus.
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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.
1932 unterschrieb der junge deutsche Architekt Rudolf Wolters einen Vertrag mit der Berliner Vertretung des sowjetischen Volkskommissariats für Eisenbahntransport über eine Arbeitsverpflichtung in der...
A quarter century after the formation of the Popular Front and a decade since joining the EU, processes of state- and nation-building in Latvia are still on-going. Issues such as citizenship, language...
What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013?
This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the...
Der Aufbau des krimtatarischen Bildungswesens nach Deportation und Heimkehr (1990-2005)
€24.90
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182 Pages
Durch Ignoranz und Korruption bei den Regierungen der Ukraine und der Autonomen Republik Krim drohte die enorme Aufbauleistung der Krimtataren im Bereich Bildungswesen nach ihrer Rückkehr aus der Deportation...
Can Western Companies and Expatriates Change Russian Society?
€29.90
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256 Pages
This innovative book offers a fresh perspective on the national work culture of Russia and the substantial role foreign institutional and cultural impact has had in shaping it. Russia's contemporary work...
Die Entwicklung Russlands und Deutschlands im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts weist – ungeachtet höchst unterschiedlicher sozialer, wirtschaftlicher und politischer Strukturen der beiden Länder – erstaunliche...
This volume explores the relationship between new media and religion, focusing on the WWW’s impact on the Russian Orthodox Church.
Eastern Christianity has travelled a long way through the centuries,...
How Informality Replaces, Renegotiates, and Reshapes Governance in Contemporary Ukraine
€34.90
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258 Pages
This book illustrates why and how informality in governance is not necessarily transitory or temporary, but a constant in most systems of the world. The difference between various administrative structures...
This in-depth analysis discloses the sources, contents, and implications of post-Soviet Russian messianism. Since its rediscovery 150 years ago, writers ranging from Western critics of Moscow’s foreign...
The Resource-Based Economy and Estate-Based Social Structure of Contemporary Russia
€34.90
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220 Pages
This monograph discloses the estate-based social structure of contemporary Russia by way of outlining the principles of the USSR's peculiar estate system, and explaining the new social estates of post-Soviet...