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      Eastern European StudiesEuropean StudiesRussian StudiesComparative Politics
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      Armenian StudiesPost-Soviet RegimesPost-Soviet PoliticsPost-Soviet Studies
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      Soviet HistoryUrban HistoryUrban AnthropologyUtopian Studies
This article focuses on how unrecognised states have tried to establish themselves domestically and internationally, and on the efforts of base states designed to counter these initiatives. Having provided an overview of the main features... more
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      Post-Soviet PoliticsPost-Soviet StudiesAbkhaziaTransnistria
L’intento di questo lavoro è presentare un quadro che sia il più completo possibile nell’analizzare il percorso dell’Unione delle Repubbliche Socialiste Sovietiche dalla sua nascita, nel 1922, fino al suo crollo, nel 1991 e,... more
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      HistoryCultural HistoryCultural StudiesGeography
This study analyzes controversies and public attitudes concerning the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and Stepan Bandera in Ukraine. The research question is: Which... more
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      HistoryModern HistoryPolitical SociologyEastern European Studies
This study examines the role of political factors in attitudes toward World War II in contemporary Ukraine. The question under examination is which factors determine public views of the principal warring sides and their leaders in... more
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryMilitary HistoryPolitical Sociology
Thanks largely to the Kremlin’s information war, Ukraine’s ultranationalists have become global media stars of a sort, depicted in Western and other reports as key players in Ukraine’s third major political upheaval in less than a... more
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      Antisemitism (Prejudice)Post-Soviet RegimesFascismNeo-Fascism
Why is so little known about the KGB career of Russia's acting President Vladimir Putin? Most reporting on both sides of the Atlantic is thinly sourced, if sourced at all, and often conflicting. Was Putin a professional foreign... more
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      Russian StudiesPost-Soviet PoliticsPost-Soviet StudiesRussian History
Since the Soviet dissolution in 1991, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have promoted the most active foreign policies in the region. From a wide perspective, they both have much in common. They both were under Russian domination along with being... more
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      Comparative PoliticsForeign Policy AnalysisIdentity (Culture)Post-Soviet Regimes
The massacre of almost 50 Maidan protesters on February 20, 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This mass killing of the protesters and the mass... more
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      SociologyCriminologyPolitical SociologyEastern European Studies
We briefly summarize some major achievements of, continuing challenges for, and future tasks within Ukraine’s ongoing decentralization drive. We have dealt in more detail with these and other dimensions of the current reset of Ukraine’s... more
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      Regional and Local GovernancePost-Soviet RegimesUkrainian StudiesLocal Government
Georgia, a small state in the South Caucasus, is the most ardent supporter of Euro-Atlantic integration in the entire post-Soviet region. Georgia’s possible membership in NATO looms large not only in terms of politics in the South... more
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      Russian StudiesInternational RelationsInternational Relations TheoryForeign Policy Analysis
Hat die derzeitige politische Ordnung in Russland mittel- und langfristig Bestand? Die fundamentale Herausforderung der Fortexistenz des heutigen kleptokratischen Regimes Russlands in den kommenden Jahren wird das Zusammenfallen zweier... more
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      Post-Soviet RegimesRussian PoliticsPost-Soviet PoliticsPost-Soviet Studies
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      Post-Soviet RegimesUkrainian StudiesPost-Soviet PoliticsUkrainian Politics
ЭРОТИКА, ИЛИ СТЁБ ПО ТЕЛУ Сочинением, вызвавшим едва ли не самый громкий резонанс в критике и читательской среде, стал написанный в разгар подготовки к чеченской войне (осень 1994) рассказ Владимира Маканина "Кавказский пленный" 33 ,... more
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      Russian StudiesRussian LiteratureHistory of SexualityPost-Soviet Politics
Hvilke konsekvenser har 70 dr med sovjetiske reformer hatt for de russiske samenes etnopolitiske organisering etter 1989? F0rste del av denne artikkelen tar for seg utviklingen av de russiske samenes etnopolitiske organisasjoner og... more
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      Russian StudiesIndigenous StudiesIndigenous or Aboriginal StudiesIndigenous Politics
Relying primarily on field research in the Siberian city of Omsk, this essay analyses a variety of ways in which state patriotic terminology is used by individuals and groups through the study of organisations and activities that deploy... more
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      Russian StudiesPost-Soviet PoliticsPost-Soviet StudiesSoviet, post-Soviet, Russian politics
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      Crisis communication and managementPost-Soviet PoliticsPost-Soviet StudiesColour Revolutions
The Article in Atlas Obscura pertaining to the problem of Ukraine's Soviet Mosaics and their seeping away.
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      Soviet HistoryPost-Soviet PoliticsSoviet Visual CultureMosaics
By understanding demographic trends from more than a century ago, it’s possible to obtain a more nuanced view of the complexities of the current crises in Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh.
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      Russian StudiesArmenian StudiesUkrainian StudiesRussian Politics
This chapter analyses constitutional amendments in the Russian Federation (1993–2014). We show that in the phase of constitution-making a problematic path was adopted when the El'cin administration promoted a basic law advantaging the... more
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      Russian StudiesComparative LawConstitutional LawLaw and Society
What happens to informal institutions and practices when political actors decide to implement democratic institutional reforms aimed at relieving formal institutions of informal constraints? Does informality disappear, or do the elites... more
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      Institutional EconomicsInternational RelationsSoviet HistoryTax reform
À partir du succès de la Révolution orange en Ukraine et de l’échec de la Révolution de Jeans en Biélorussie, cet ouvrage propose une étude rétrospective des transformations politiques et identitaires dans ces deux États issus de la... more
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      Belarusian StudiesRevolutionsDemocratizationPost-Soviet Politics
Georgien skall vara en självständig, enhetlig och odelbar stat […]. Den georgiska statens politiska struktur skall inta formen av en demokratisk republik.
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      Political ScienceDemocratizationPost-Soviet PoliticsNationalism And State Building
Giorgadze has long been in opposition to Georgian authorities and is a well informed man too. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, he appealed to none other than US President Donald Trump with a personal request to investigate the... more
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      Russian StudiesComparative PoliticsInternational RelationsSocial Sciences
El presente texto, recogiendo las aportaciones de Charles Tilly a la comprensión y disección del fenómeno revolucionario y siguiendo su definición clásica de revolución, plantea un análisis tentativo del concepto para analizar las... more
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      DemocratizationPost-Soviet PoliticsUkrainian PoliticsPost-Soviet Studies
In this research (supported by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) we first intend to analyse the expected benefits and risks associated with Kyrgyzstan’s accession to EEU in general, and more... more
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      Russian StudiesInternational TradeMigrationCentral Asian Studies
Free access at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2020.1803794 This forum brings together five different angles on the question as to whether and how political regimes and forms of order-making can and should be researched through the... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesPolitical TheoryPolitical ScienceLiberalism
As a result of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its “hybrid war” in the Donbas, the present-day nonproliferation regime, with its exceptional treatment of the permanent Security Council members, could in the future, paradoxically,... more
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      Russian StudiesNuclear WeaponsNonproliferation TreatiesUkrainian Studies
Від 1991 року Україна була толерантною та інклюзивною країною. Країною, згідно з Конституцією, для «громадян України всіх національностей». Підписання законів, ухвалених 9 квітня, стане подарунком для тих, хто хоче посварити українців між... more
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      Soviet RegimeSoviet HistoryPost-Soviet RegimesUkrainian Studies
Picture 1. 1 Table of Contents Abstract p. Foreword p. Introduction & methodology p. Historiography p. Chapter 1: The introduction of Soviet-forced labour p. Chapter 2: The period of continuation p. Chapter 3: The fletching paths of... more
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      Soviet HistorySlaveryCentral Asian StudiesPost-Soviet Politics
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 remains a deeply puzzling event. The action was uncharacteristic of Moscow's Third World policy and extremely self-destructive. Moreover, archival sources reveal that, just nine months... more
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      Soviet HistoryAfghanistanPost-Soviet PoliticsPost-Soviet Studies
Cтоит ли классифицировать природу «системы Путина», ввиду ее недавней радикализации, как современное проявление фашизма, как это недавно сделали некоторые — в том числе и русские — обозреватели? У этих явно антипутинских комментаторов —... more
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      Russian NationalismPost-Soviet RegimesFascismNeo-Fascism
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      Economic AnthropologyGift ExchangePost-Soviet RegimesPost-Soviet Politics
В современной Украине из Степана Бандеры и его организации делают героев, хотя на самом деле они были международными террористами, пишет Иван Качановский, пост-докторский сотрудник факультета политологии Торонтского университета, в своей... more
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      HistoryComparative PoliticsTerrorismPolitical Science
What the world is now witnessing in Ukraine is the cumulative effect of history and memory in the lives of the people of the region—and this book helps readers to understand those subjects. Centered in Kharkiv, a Russian-speaking city in... more
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      Soviet RegimeSoviet HistoryTransnationalismPost-Soviet Regimes
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      Eastern European StudiesComparative PoliticsInternational RelationsCommunication
Процессы трансформации на постсоветском пространстве приводят к формированию различ- ного рода интеграционных группировок. Необходим поиск интеграционной парадигмы, которая позволила бы выявить закономерность интеграционных и... more
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      GeopoliticsPost-Soviet PoliticsRegional IntegrationColour Revolutions
This study analyzes the Soviet and post-Soviet Russian foreign policy from political Realist perspective. We try to find and to demonstrate to our readers as to what extent Cold War Soviet foreign policy was under the impact of Realist... more
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      Russian StudiesForeign Policy AnalysisPost-Soviet RegimesRussian Politics
Perestrojka Mihaila Gorbačova trebala je ojačati socijalizam u SSSR-u, no umjesto toga pokrenula je događaje koji su doveli do raspada SSSR-a. Ukrajina od SSSR-a nasljeđuje golemi nuklearni arsenal, oko čijeg vlasništva izbija prvi spor s... more
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      International RelationsPost-Soviet PoliticsRussian Foreign PolicyPost-Soviet Studies
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      Korean StudiesPost-Soviet PoliticsAuthoritarian PersonalityCommunism
"Charles Tilly’s Concept of Revolution and the 'Color Revolutions'", is a chapter included in "Regarding Tilly. Conflict, Power and Collective Action", Funes (2016), New York: University Press of America (Rowman and Littlefield). In... more
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      Social MovementsRussian StudiesInternational RelationsRevolutions
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      Post-Soviet PoliticsNationalism And State BuildingNagorno - Karabakh ConflictTurkish and Armenian Studies
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      Russian PoliticsPost-Soviet PoliticsRussian Orthodox Church
W klasycznym modelu państwa totalitarnego władza ma pełną kontrolę nad obywatelami, we wszystkich dziedzinach życia społecznego 1 . Wymaga okazywania poparcia, politycznego uczestnictwa obywateli. Społeczeństwo jest więc zmuszone do... more
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      Post-Soviet RegimesTotalitarianismCentral Asian StudiesPost-Soviet Politics
The ongoing crisis in Ukraine first entered the spotlight of international media in late 2013 and remains one of the top global concerns. In this work, a University of Victoria historian Serhy Yekelchyk provides timely and concise, yet... more
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      Russian StudiesUkrainian StudiesPost-Soviet PoliticsRussian Foreign Policy
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      Armenian StudiesPost-Soviet PoliticsPost-Soviet StudiesElites (Political Science)