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Patriotic Education In Contemporary Russia - Sociological Studies In The Making Of The Post-Soviet Citizen

by Anna Sanina

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 This book is a comprehensive study of the social roots of citizen raising in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of governmental patriotic programs in recent decades, discusses how the Soviet past and political traditions influence today's system of patriotism formation, and presents numerous examples illustrating real-life processes in current patriotic education. While the topics of patriotism and patriotic education are highly politicized, this study approaches them from a sociological perspective. It identifies the basic model of patriotic education as a fairly stable structure born of the values and attitudes of different agents: teachers, school administrators, and civil servants. Patriotic education in Russia is shown as a particular example of how a political idea can lead to the formation of social structures, and how, in time, those social structures can lead to the restoration of the original political idea.
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After Empire - Nationalist Imagination And Symbolic Politics In Russia And Eurasia In The Twentieth And Twenty-First Century

by Igor Torbakov

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 Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Russia's imperial polity over the last hundred years. While Russia's historical process is by no means unique, two features of its historical development stand out. First, the country's history is characterized by dramatic political discontinuity. In the past century, Russia changed its "historical skin" three times: following the disintegration of the Tsarist Empire accompanied by violent civil war, it was reconstituted as the communist USSR, whose breakup a quarter century ago led to the emergence of the present-day Russian Federation. Each of the dramatic transformations in the 20th century powerfully affected the notion of what "Russia" is and what it means to be Russian. Second, alongside Russia's political instability, there is, paradoxically, a striking picture of geopolitical stability and of remarkable longevity as an imperial entity. At least since the beginning of the 18th century, "Russia" has been a permanent geopolitical fixture on Europe's north-eastern margins with its persistent pretense to the status of a great power. Against this backdrop, the book's three sections investigate (a) the emergence and development of Eurasianism as a form of (post-)imperial ideology, (b) the crucial role Ukraine has historically played for the Russians' self-understanding, and (c) the contemporary Russian elites' exercises in historical legitimation.
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Fortius Quo Fidelius? - Hierarchy And Bargaining In Russiaâ€™S Relations With Transnistria And Abkhazia Since 1991

by Maximilian Ohle

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 This book examines how the unrecognized â€œrepublicsâ€ of Transnistria and Abkhazia, despite their loyalty to Russia, have occasionally challenged Moscow's authority. Both regions have used economic and cultural leverage to influence Russian policies, revealing a more nuanced dynamic in their relationships with the Kremlin.
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The Making Of A Media Nation - Television And Popular Culture In Soviet Ukraine During The 1950s-1980s

by Bohdan Shumylovych

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 This book explores the evolution of socialist media in Soviet Ukraine from the 1950s to the 1980s. Through archival research and oral history, Shumylovych examines how media influenced public life, reflecting state ideologies while shaping Ukraine's post-Soviet national identity.
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The House Always Wins - The Corrupt Strategies That Shaped Kazakh Oil Politics And Business In The Nazarbayev Era

by Gian Marco Moise

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 Gian Marco MoisÃ© explores the various ways in which corruption and informal governance converged and were shaped by everchanging power dynamics.
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Post-Euromaidan Ukraine - Domestic Power Struggles And War Of National Survival In 20142022

by Bohdan Harasymiw

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 This study examines the presidencies of Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Lithuaniatransforms The West - Lithuanias Liberation From Soviet Occupation And The Enlargement Of Nato (19882022)

by Darius Dr. Furmonavicius

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 This book analyzes security developments in Lithuania since 1988, a period marked by liberation, the collapse of the USSR, and the integration into NATO.
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Who Are The Fighters? - Irregular Armed Groups In The Russian-Ukrainian War Since 2014

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 Based on interviews in the Russian-controlled Donbas with Ukrainian combatants, this book discloses dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and fighting.
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Eight Years After The Revolution Of Dignity - What Has Changed In Ukraine During 20132021?

by Kalman Mizsei, Kateryna Ivashchenko e Volodymyr Dubrovskyi

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 The book views the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity as an ongoing process in which societal, economic, political, and institutional developments are intertwined.
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Nasilie I Molchanie - Krasnaia Armiia V Vengrii Vo Vtoroi Mirovoi Voine

by Andrea Peto

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 Eta kniga — rezul''tat mnogoletnego issledovaniia o seksualizirovannom nasilii nad zhenshchinami v Vengrii vo Vtoroi mirovoi voine. S pomoshch''iu arkhivnykh istochnikov, interv''iu i lichnykh dnevnikov Andrea Peto vosstanavlivaet dramatichnyi opyt vengerskikh zhenshchin, udeliaia osoboe vnimanie prestupleniiam Krasnoi armii v Vengrii — teme, kotoraia prakticheski otsutstvuet v rossiiskom publichnom prostranstve.Transnatsional''nyi podkhod pozvoliaet Peto podcherknut'' universal''nost'' uiazvlennogo polozheniia zhenshchin vo vremia voiny. Kniga analiziruet seksualizirovannoe nasilie, sovershennoe armiiami SSSR i natsistskoi Germanii v Vengrii, i sravnivaet ego s nasiliem so storony soiuznykh voisk v zone okkupatsii na Zapadnom fronte, ekspluatatsiei "zhenshchin dlia utesheniia" v iaponskikh voennykh bordeliakh v 1931-1945 gg., a takzhe prestupleniiami protiv zhenshchin vo vremia Iugoslavskikh voin v 1991-2001 gg.Vo vtoroi chasti knigi Peto pytaetsia otvetit'' na voprosy: Kakoi sled seksualizirovannoe nasilie vremen Vtoroi mirovoi voiny ostavilo v kollektivnoi pamiati grazhdan Rossii, Vengrii, Pol''shi, Germanii i Ukrainy? Kakie faktory vliiaiut na to, kak imenno oni pomniat — ili ne pomniat — o nem?
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Language And Power In Ukraine And Kazakhstan - Essays On Education, Ideology, Literature, Practice, And The Media

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 This is the first such collection of essays presenting a critical multi-author examination of language and power relations in Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The post-Soviet period in Ukraine and Kazakhstan has been characterized not only by changes in the economic marketplace in the transition from communism to capitalism, but also in the linguistic marketplace. During the Soviet period, Russian was the primary language of schooling, media, and government administration in both countries, leading to widespread language shift away from their titular languages, especially among the educated urban elites. Since independence, Ukrainian and Kazakh, which occupied relatively peripheral positions in the Soviet-era marketplace, have been elevated to the status of national languages and institutionalized in government and schools, thus increasing their symbolic power. Nevertheless, the years since independence have also seen contentious debates around language. Employing various methodological tools ranging from surveys to critical discourse analysis of legislation, literary texts and social media products, the authors in this volume seek to demonstrate and explain how political relations and hegemonic ideologies have been reproduced and negotiated at both the macro-level in legislation on language and state-sponsored media channels and embodiments of political and linguistic ideologies in translations, as well as at the micro-level of everyday language practices, school choice, and discourses on social media platforms. Among the authors are Elise S. Ahn, Igor Danylenko, Bridget Goodman, Lada Kolomiyets, Svitlana Melnyk, Juldyz Smagulova, Yuliia Soroka, and Maryna Vardanian.
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House Always Wins - The Corrupt Strategies That Shaped Kazakh Oil Politics And Business In The Nazarbayev Era

by Gian Marco Moise

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 Every couple of years, a new corruption scandal of the oil industry draws the attention of worldwide media: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists describes the complex schemes of shell companies, international transfers, and hidden tax havens that the political elites of resource-rich countries exploit to embezzle the wealth of the land they should be protecting; dozens of books discuss at length how kleptocrats and their informal circles spend millions of dollars virtually undisturbed in the general hypocrisy of world leaders. This is what we know, but how do the actors of the oil sector shape their relationships through informality?Using Kazakhstan as a case study, Gian Marco Moisé explores the various ways in which corruption and informal governance converged and were shaped by the everchanging power dynamics between the different actors participating in the industry. Complemented by discussions on other rentier economies, each practice of the taxonomy is presented as a specific strategy employed by the predatory elite to achieve different governance objectives. As these practices normalize, their effects trickle down into an increasing inequality that contributes to the generalized informality of the lowest ranks of the industry.
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In The Eye Of The Storm - Origins, Ideology, And Controversies Of The Azov Brigade, 2014-2023

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 <p >This volume focuses on a highly controversial unit within the Ukrainian military, the Azov (former regiment) Brigade. Azov is known for its far-right origins but has garnered worldwide attention through its role in the defense of Mariupol in 2022. There is still confusion and obfuscation about the Azov Brigade’s development since 2014 and its status today. Many conflate the unit and political Azov Movement, with the latter emerging later and using the success of the former as a launchpad for public attention. The contributors examine Azov’s ideology, its roles, and the controversies around the unit. They scrutinize the history and evolution of the unit from creation to today. The contributors include Rosaria Puglisi, Bertrand de Franqueville, Ivan Gomza, Mollie Saltskog, Kacper Rekawek, Taras Tarasiuk, Petro Burkovskiy, and Przemysaw Witkowski.</p>
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Uncanny Allies - Russia And Belarus On The Edge, 2012-2024

by Rasmus Nilsson

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 <p >This book challenges widespread academic and media claims that Russia and Belarus are unwavering allies or that Russia has unquestioned control over Belarus. Instead, Belarus plays at least four different roles within Russian foreign policy. First, Belarus is sometimes a conduit for Russian power projection towards Western enemies. Second, Belarus is sometimes a supporter in Russian attempts to centralize the post-Soviet space around itself. Third, Belarus is sometimes itself an object of Russian economic ambition or even greed. Fourth, however, Belarus also presents a source of danger and vulnerability to Russian physical and, perhaps more importantly, ontological security. Many scholars have pointed out the historical and contemporary importance of Ukraine for Russian self-understanding and external projection. Belarus, too, has such importance. Whether it be as a millennium-old „grey zone" between Russia and what it saw as its ideological and military enemies, or whether it be as the place where the „most perfect" Soviet republic was created, the Belarusian lands today present themselves to Russia simultaneously as open to the passage of alien subversive influences and as a place claiming to be the real heir to Soviet victory and to Slavic purity - both mantles otherwise claimed by Russia.</p>
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Language And Power In Ukraine And Kazakhstan - Essays On Education, Ideology, Literature, Practice, And The Media

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 This is the first collection of essays presenting a critical multi-author examination of language and power relations in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
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Un General Assembly Resolutions - Their Nature And Significance In The Context Of The Russian War Against Ukraine

by Oleksiy V. Kresin

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 This book begins with an examination of the powers of the UN General Assembly and the legal character of its resolutions, analyzing the UN Charter and related documents, as well as the interpretation of relevant provisions by the International Court of Justice, the General Assembly itself, and international legal doctrine. The author analyzes the UN General Assembly resolutions from 2014 through 2023 on the territorial integrity of Ukraine, condemnation of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, war crimes committed by its political and military leadership and Russian citizens, the legal responsibility of the Russian Federation and its citizens, as well as the parameters of a future just and lasting peace.
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Russia'S War In Ukraine - Debates On Peace, Fascism, And War Crimes, 2022-2023

by Winfried Schneider-Deters

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 Ukraine expert Winfried Schneider-Deters intervenes in the debate on Russia''s war against Ukraine with three timely essays, written during the winter of war in Kyiv in 2022 / 2023. He critically discusses the ambivalent reception of Russian aggression not only in German society. Calls by intellectuals to stop arms deliveries and to negotiate and compromise with the aggressor are, in effect, calls for surrender; in the author''s view, their signatories are thus making themselves into Putin''s "useful idiots." Schneider-Deters points out the parallels between Putin and Hitler and analyzes the Russian "Weimar syndrome" after the collapse of the Soviet Union as well as the roots of the current, specifically Russian fascism, the "Rushism". He also gives a detailed account of the crimes committed by Russia''s armed forces in Ukraine under international law. The International Criminal Court in The Hague does not have jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, the "supreme international crime"; Schneider-Deters discusses the possible steps to create a new international tribunal along the lines of the Nuremberg trials, a "Nuremberg II", in order to be able to hold the aggressor Putin criminally responsible.
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Russian Cultural Diplomacy Under Putin - Rossotrudnichestvo, The “Russkiy Mir” Foundation, And The Gorchakov Fund In 2007-2022

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 This book breaks into the black box of Russian cultural diplomacy’s ideological underpinnings and modi operandi. Relying on publicly accessible sources such as annual reports, news from official websites, social media posts, and other pertinent materials, the contributors examine the three most significant state-affiliated or full-fledged state institutions operating in this field. Their organization and management, budget and financial details, links to oligarchs, the government and other institutions, most important activities, as well as overall geographical presence are analyzed. The discourses of these organizations during the Russia-Ukraine War, including after 24 February 2022, are given special attention. The collection discloses how the Kremlin’s foreign propaganda institutions support the Russian authoritarian regime and its expansionist policies.
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Lithuania Transforms The West - Lithuania’S Liberation From Soviet Occupation And The Enlargement Of Nato (1988-2022) With A Foreword By Vytautas Landsbergis

by Darius Furmonavicius

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 This book analyzes security developments in Lithuania since 1988, a period marked by liberation from nearly fifty years of Soviet occupation, the collapse of the USSR, and the integration of the country into NATO. Furmonavicius focuses on how Lithuania achieved liberation and how the country''s consequent search for integration into the European and Transatlantic security framework has influenced the evolution of both its own and transatlantic security. "Furmonavicius'' book offers an extremely useful and essentially pioneering interpretation of Lithuania''s recovery of its national being." Anthony Packer (1940-2014), former Honorary Counsellor of Lithuania in Cardiff, UK "Furmonavicius provides a broad outline of Lithuanian history, with special attention to the period between March 11, 1990, and January 13, 1991. For this period, Furmonavicius cites many sources, many of them difficult to find. He provides a very useful bibliography for students of this period." Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina "In this detailed study of how Lithuania strove to integrate itself into European and Transatlantic security structures, Furmonavicius reveals the enduring importance of this strategic region, strikingly relevant to our own unsettled times." Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Professor of History, University of Tennessee "Furmonavicius reminds us of the crucial role played by Lithuania in liberating itself from Soviet occupation and hastening the end of the Soviet Union, and highlights the strategic importance of the Baltic States for European security and stability. Furmonavicius uses unique sources, including documents from the private collection of US Secretary of State James Baker, interviews with President Vytautas Landsbergis and Foreign Ministers of Lithuania Juozas Urbšys and Algirdas Saudargas." Patrick Salmon, Chief Historian, Foreign & Commonwealth Development Office, UK
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Who Are The Fighters? - Irregular Armed Groups In The Russian-Ukrainian War Since 2014

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 The war in Ukraine has been fought with, among others, irregular armed groups since 2014—volunteers, paramilitaries, and mercenaries. Based on interviews in the Russian-controlled Donbas and with Ukrainian combatants, the contributions to this volume disclose various micro-dynamics of the mobilization, group formation, and fighting. Who were these fighters and who organized them? Russia has been increasingly employing mercenaries as a way to conduct undeclared, but ruthless wars beyond her borders. Ukraine’s formation of irregular armed groups in 2014 was a response to the army’s initially glaring inability to counter Russia’s military intervention. Most of the irregular battalions acted from the beginning under governmental orders. They have never operated autonomously, but compensated for operational weaknesses of regular armed groups. The initially high power of irregular battalions derived from state support, the capabilities of commanders, social networks, and the faculties of the fighters.
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Soviet And Post-Soviet Foreign Policies I - East-South Relations And The Political Economy Of The Communist Bloc, 1971-1991

by Robert M Cutler

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 This collection of studies investigates the political economy of international relations between the Soviet bloc (the "East") and the developing world (the "South"), spanning the entire post-Stalin era while focusing on the 1970s and 1980s. The works examine East-South relations from the standpoints of international trade patterns, financial transfers, military relations including their economic angle, interactions within the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the international legal framework for trade embedded in the "socialist offensive in international law." The chapters provide extensive bibliographies making this volume a handbook of great interest not only to researchers, but also to university students and the general public.
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Eight Years After The Revolution Of Dignity - What Has Changed In Ukraine During 2013-2021?

by Kalman Mizsei, Kateryna Ivashchenko e Volodymyr Dubrovskyi

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 This book views the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity, from a broad systemic perspective, as an ongoing process in which societal, economic, political, and institutional developments are intertwined. The Euromaidan and further developments, especially the Russian aggression, accelerated the westward reorientation of the economy, strengthened institutional checks and balances (for instance, through decentralization), changed the main social cleavage from an ethnolinguistic one to a division between urban creative and "oligarchic" classes, reshaped identity towards formation of a political nation, and increased the role of modernizing forces, especially civil society. However, so far, the Revolution has failed to bring about, despite some progress, a critical mass of changes regarding the rule of law while much of the economy remains rent-oriented. If modernizing forces are prudently managed, Ukraine has a chance to move forward on an evolutionary path. Otherwise, new conflicts are possible.
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United Nations General Assembly Resolutions - Their Nature And Significance In The Context Of The Russian War Against Ukraine

by Oleksiy V. Kresin

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 This book examines the powers of the UN General Assembly and the legal character of its resolutions from 2014 through 2023 on anspects of the Russo-Ukrainan war.
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Russia'S Overlooked Invasion - The Causes Of The 2014 Outbreak Of War In Ukraine’S Donbas. With A Foreword By Hiroaki Kuromiya

by Jakob Hauter

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 The war in Ukraine did not start on 24 February 2022. It began eight years earlier in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. In his new book, Jakob Hauter investigates the escalation of violence in the spring and summer of 2014. He demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, the pre-2022 conflict was not a civil war. Ukraine has been fighting a Russian invasion since the armed conflict’s very beginning. Hauter arrives at this conclusion based on a thorough review of the digital open source information (DOSI) available on the Internet. He argues that social science research needs theoretical and methodological innovation to operate in the abundant but murky information environment surrounding the Donbas War and other conflicts of the social media age. To address this challenge, he develops an escalation sequence model which divides the formative phase of the Donbas War into six critical junctures. He then combines the social science methodology of process tracing with DOSI analysis to investigate the causes of these critical junctures. For each juncture, Hauter assesses the available evidence of domestic causes and Russian interference, reaching the conclusion that, in most cases, there is convincing evidence that Russian involvement was the primary cause of armed escalation.
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