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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a biannual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland). Like the book series, the journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for new origi...
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
The special issue offers an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the questions of agency of less mainstream groups in protest movements in patriarchal and authoritarian societies. The themes covered include the place of feminist and gender equality movements in democratically restricted enviro...
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This special section deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy toward the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This issue of the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society is devoted to teaching International Relations during wartime.
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This issue features the second installment in a series of thematic sections dedicated to the history and memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This special section deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia’s policy perspectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today...
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
This is the third installment in a series of JSPPS discussions on the conceptualization of the ideology of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists during World War II.
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society, vol. 8, no. 2 (2022)
The authors of this issue of JSPPS investigate how the Kremlin’s recent turbo-charging of Russia’s information warfare, 24-hour TV, and social media activity has expanded on traditional pro-Russian sentiments among Western academics, experts, and journalists.
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Language policy and discourse on languages in ukraine under president viktor yanukovych
Declared the country's official language in 1996, Ukrainian has weathered constant challenges by post-Soviet political forces promoting Russian. Michael Moser provides the definitive account of the policies and ethno-political dynamics underlying this unique cultural struggle.
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Lenin's moscow
Engaging, page-turning first hand account of the promise of the Russian Revolution.
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Life and death of leon trotsky
A biography of Leon Trotsky by two of his close friends and collaborators
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Like a drop of ink in a downpour
Told in the dual points of view, Like A Drop of Ink in a Downpour is a clear-eyed look at the reality of life in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, giving us an insider’s perspective on the roots of contemporary Russia. It is also a coming-of-age story, heartfelt and funny, a testament to the ...
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Lithuania transforms the west
This book analyzes security developments in Lithuania since 1988, from liberation of Soviet occupation, the USSR's collapse, to its integration into NATO.
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Memeing war
Memeing War explores how Ukrainians used memes as digital folklore and survival tools during Russia’s 2022 invasion, reflecting national identity, resilience, and humor in the face of violence and loss.
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Migration as a (geo-)political challenge in the post-soviet space
Migration management in post-Soviet states has become a tool for staking out zones of influence, a winning slogan for election campaigns, and a handle on the domestic population. This volume explains why shifts in migration management are both causes for and consequences of political changes that...
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Moscow’s mercenaries
This book traces the Wagner Group’s violent ascent and descent, exposing how a shadow army built an empire until it turned on its masters.
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Narratives of the russo-ukrainian war
This book presents a collection of selected essays and interviews with scholars and experts that were published by the Forum for Ukrainian Studies in the first two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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Nato’s enlargement and russia
This collection of essays, interviews, and analyses by prominent politicians, diplomats, and scholars from the U.S., Russia, and Europe provides personal perspectives on the sources of Russian-Western estrangement. They shed new light on the nature of the confrontation between the West and Russia...
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Never speak to strangers and other writing from russia and the soviet union
David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. The articles in this collection are a chronicle of Russia from the day Satter arrived in the Soviet Union until the present.
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No place for russia
William H. Hill traces the development of the post–Cold War European security order to explain today’s tensions, showing how attempts to include Russia were overshadowed by the domination of NATO and the EU. Closing with war in Ukraine, No Place for Russia argues that the post–Cold War order in E...
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Occupation and migration in eastern europe
This first hand account explores the nature of the military occupation of Ukraine by Russian forces and their proxies in Crimea, Donbas, and Southern regions of Ukraine.
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On my country and the world
Drawing on his own experience, rich archival material, and a keen sense of history and politics, Mikhail Gorbachev speaks his mind on a range of subjects concerning Russia's past, present, and future place in the world. Here is Gorbachev on the October Revolution, the Cold War, and key figures su...
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Our others
Our Others is an award-winning exploration of the histories and personal stories of fourteen ethnic minority groups living within the boundaries of present-day Ukraine: Czechs and Slovaks, Meskhetian Turks, Swedes, Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Jews, ‘Liptaks’, Gagauzes, Germans, Vlachs, Poles, Cr...
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Party and class
These essays show why we need something more than single-issue organizations, movement coalitions, or reformist organizations if we are to achieve real change.
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Patriotic education in contemporary russia
This book outlines the complexities, contestation, and contradictions in the formal organization and contents of patriotic education in post-Soviet Russia. While the topics of patriotism and patriotic education are highly political and politicized, this study approaches them from a more sociologi...
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Philosophy unchained
This book analyzes the renewal of the philosophical enterprise over the last thirty to forty years in former Soviet bloc.
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Politics and society in the ukrainian people’s republic (1917–1921) and contemporary ukraine (2013–2022)
This monograph explores the recent political history of Ukraine from a novel diachronic and comparative point of view.
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Post-soviet russia
Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a society in crisis but—for reaso...
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Post-soviet secessionism
The essays collected in this volume address questions such as: How do post-Soviet de facto states survive and continue to grow? How do secessionist movements become embedded in wider networks of separatism in Eastern and Western Europe? What is the impact of secessionism and war on the parental s...
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Power and identity in the post-soviet realm
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 evolved into a specific buffer zone throughout the 1990s. Focusings on these areas of the post-S...
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Putin's exiles
The future of Russia lies outside the country Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to the war, by guilt for their country’s deeds, by personal hatred for the Tsar-like Putin, and by a vi...
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Putin's revenge
Lucian Kim—an on-the-ground reporter in Russia for decades—offers a gripping, definitive account of Russia’s path to war, from Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution and the 2014 Maidan uprising right up to the full-scale invasion.
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Putin’s war, russian genocide
Putin’s War—Russian Genocide will provoke intense debate, for it uncovers the latitude of Putin’s violence.
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Regionalization as eu foreign policy
The European Union (EU) is not only a model of integration but also a regionalizing actor. This book shows how, through a twofold approach of clustering states and promoting cooperation, the EU has shaped its engagement with the post-Soviet South Caucasus, offering insights into its wider foreign...
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Religion and magic in socialist and post-socialist contexts
Religion and magic have played important roles within Eastern European societies where social reality and sociopolitical balance may differ greatly from those in the West. Although often thought of as being two distinct, even antagonistic forces, religion and magic find ways to work together. By ...
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Religion and magic in socialist and post-socialist contexts ii
Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post-Soviet societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest that the idea that religion and magic are connected ...
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Revenge
Chronicles Russia's descent into an increasingly totalitarian dictatorship and the path leading to the escalation of Putin's imperialist war in 2022.
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Revolution and war in contemporary ukraine
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 formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including...
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Rocking st. petersburg
Focusing on Germany's post-Soviet emigrant community and their "Russendisko," this volume portrays St. Petersburg's vibrant music scene as an electrifying platform for exchange. Its findings illuminate Soviet and post-Soviet popular music history and Russia's relationship with the Ukraine. The te...
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Romania’s strategic culture 1990–2014
Romania’s communist regime cultivated a thorny relationship with the Soviet Union, which facilitated the development of a national security narrative legitimizing a highly isolationist foreign policy. These factors have heavily weighed on Romanian postcommunist strategic thinking and complicated ...
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Russia after the global economic crisis
Russia After the Global Economic Crisis examines this important country after the financial crisis of 2007–09. The second book from The Russia Balance Sheet Project, a collaboration of two of the world's preeminent research institutions, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the ...
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Russia and the eu in a multipolar world
This multifaceted analysis of E.U.–Russian relations investigates competing models of international society and unveils multiple alternatives both the EU and Russia can draw on in their policies toward each other. Assessing the repercussions of ongoing E.U.–Russian discord, the volume reveals the...
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Russia and the idea of the west
An intriguing "intellectual portrait" of a generation of Soviet reformers, this book is also a fascinating case study of how ideas can change the course of history. In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to th...
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Russia before the full-scale war vol. i
This first volume reflects upon some critical characteristics of the late Soviet and post-Soviet elites, institutions, and society of Russia.
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