Journal of Soviet- and Post-Soviet Politics and Society - Catalog 2022

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Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

JSPPS Editorial tEam

General Editor: Julie Fedor, University of Melbourne

Editors: Andrey Makarychev, University of Tartu (Editor)

Andreas Umland, Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, Kyiv (Consulting Editor)

JSPPS adviSory Board

Hannes Adomeit, College of Europe, Natolin Timofey Agarin, Queen‘s University, Belfast Mikhail Alexseev, San Diego State University, CA Catherine Andreyev, University of Oxford Anne Applebaum, The Legatum Institute, London Anders Åslund, Peterson Inst. for International Economics Margarita Balmaceda, Seton Hall University, NJ Harley Balzer, Georgetown University, DC John Barber, University of Cambridge Timm Beichelt, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) Mark R. Beissinger, Princeton University, NJ Thomas Bohn, Justus Liebig University, Giessen Giovanna Brogi, University of Milan Paul Chaisty, University of Oxford Vitaly Chernetsky, University of Kansas, Lawrence Ariel Cohen, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, MD Timothy J. Colton, Harvard University, MA Peter J.S. Duncan, University College London John B. Dunlop, Stanford University, CA Gerald M. Easter, Boston College, MA Alexander Etkind, European University Institute, Florence M. Steven Fish, University of California at Berkeley Gasan Gusejnov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Nikolas K. Gvosdev, U.S. Naval War College, RI Michael Hagemeister, Ruhr University, Bochum Stephen E. Hanson, College of William & Mary, VA Olexiy Haran, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Nicolas Hayoz, University of Fribourg Andreas Heinemann-Grüder, University of Bonn Stephen Hutchings, University of Manchester, UK Stefani Hoffman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mikhail Ilyin, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Wilfried Jilge, University of Basel Markku Kangaspuro, University of Helsinki Adrian Karatnycky, Atlantic Council, New York Andrei Kazantsev, MGIMO, Moscow

Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto Hrant Kostanyan, Centre for European Policy Studies

Paul Kubicek, Oakland University, MI Walter Laqueur, Georgetown University, DC Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University, DC Carol Leonard, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Leonid Luks, The Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt Luke March, University of Edinburgh Mykhailo Minakov, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Olga Onuch, University of Manchester Mitchell Orenstein, Northeastern University, MA Nikolay Petrov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Andriy Portnov, Humboldt University, Berlin Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University, MA Alina Polyakova, Atlantic Council, DC Maria Popova, McGill University, Montreal Alex Pravda, University of Oxford Mykola Riabchuk, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kyiv Per Anders Rudling, Lund University Ellen Rutten, University of Amsterdam Jutta Scherrer, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Dieter Segert, University of Vienna Anton Shekhovtsov, The Legatum Institute, London Oxana Shevel, Tufts University, MA Stephen Shulman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Valerie Sperling, Clark University, MA Susan Stewart, SWP, Berlin Lisa M. Sundstrom, University of British Columbia Mark Tauger, West Virginia University, Morgantown Vera Tolz-Zilitinkevic, University of Manchester Amir Weiner, Stanford University Sarah Whitmore, Oxford Brookes University, UK Andrew Wilson, University College London Christian Wipperfürth, DGAP, Berlin Andreas Wittkowsky, ZIF, Berlin Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford

The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society is a new bi-annual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andre as Umland, Dr. phil., Ph. D.). Like the book series, the journal will provide an interdisciplinary forum for new original research on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. The journal aims to become known for publishing creative, intelligent and lively writing tackling and illuminating significant issues and capable of engaging wider educated audiences beyond the academy.

We aim to guarantee a rigorous but rapid review process with a view to enabling the publication of up-to-date and relevant research driven by contemporary developments in the region and in the scholarship.

The Editors:

Julie Fedor is Lecturer is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Mel bourne. In 2010-13, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the Memory at War project based in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge (www.memoryatwar.org). She has taught modern Russian history at the Universities of Birmingham, Cambridge, Melbourne, and St Andrews. She is the author of Russia and the Cult of State Security (Routledge, 2011); co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity, 2012); and co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013); Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States (Routledge, 2013); and War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Andrey Makarychev is is Guest Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His areas of expertise include Russia’s neighborhood policies and EU-Russia studies. He teaches courses in Foreign Policy Analysis, Globalization, Regionalism and Integration in EU-Russia Common Neighbourhood. His record of previous institutional affiliations includes George Mason University (Fairfax, VA), Center for Conflict Studies (ETH, Zurich), Danish Insti tute of International Studies (DIIS), Institute for East European Studies (Free University of Berlin, Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship) and Nizhny Novgorod Linguistic University. He co-edited the book Changing Political and Economic Regimes in Russia (Routledge, 2013), and authored a monograph Russia and the EU in a Multipolar World: Discourses, Identities, Norms (ibidem, 2014) and has also published numerous articles in Global Governance, International Spectator, Problems of Post-Communism, Demokratizatsiya, Journal of International Relations and Development, Cooperation and Conflict, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Turkish Foreign Policy Review, and other international peer-reviewed journals, as well as book chapters in edited volumes published by Ashgate, Palgrave Macmillan, Nomos, and others.

Andreas Umland, (ku-eichstaett.academia.edu/AndreasUmland), CertTransl (Leipzig), AM (Stanford), MPhil (Oxford), DipPolSci, DrPhil (FU Berlin), PhD (Cambridge) is a researcher of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian politics with a focus on the post-Soviet extreme right, at the National University of ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (www.ukma.kiev.ua/ua/faculties/fac_soc/politol ogy/index.php), and the Eichstaett Institute for Central and East European Studies (http://www. ku-eichstaett.de/forschungseinr/zimos/). He is also initiator and co-director of a Master’s program in German and European Studies administered jointly by Kyiv’s Mohyla Academy and Jena’s Schil ler University (www.des.uni-jena.de/).

Julie Fedor

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Russia’s Annexation of Crimea III

A Debate on Prospect Theory and Explaining Russia’s Annexation of Crimea

JSPPS

Guest Editors: Andreas Umland & Gergana Dimova

Special Section: Russia`s Annexation of Crimea III

GERGANA DIMOVA and ANDREAS UMLAND: Introduction. Perspectives on Russia’s 2014 Annexation of Crimea: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations

GRETA LYNN UEHLING: The Personal Stakes of Political Crisis: The 2014 Attempted Annexati on of Crimea

KERSTIN S. JOBST: “Dark” and “Golden” Times: The Crimean Tatar Population under Tsarist and Soviet Rule (1783–1941)

JAN ZOFKA: Agents of Separatism: Social Background to the Pro-Russian Movements in Crimea and the Moldovan Dniester Valley in Comparison (1989–95)

ION MARANDICI: A Debate on Prospect Theory and Explaining Russia’s Annexation of Crimea Loss Aversion, Neo-Imperial Frames, and Territorial Expansion: Using Prospect Theory to Examine the Annexation of Crimea

Special Section: A Debate on Prospect Theory and Explaining Russia’s Annexation of Crimea

ION MARANDICI: Loss Aversion, Neo-Imperial Frames, and Territorial Expansion: Using Prospect Theory to Examine the Annexation of Crimea Responses to Marandici

Featuring contributions by PETER RUTLAND, TOR BUKKVOLL, MYKOLA KAPITONENKO, RUMENA FILIPOVA, MARTIN MALEK, ION MARANDICI Articles

CHRIS MONDAY: Mikhail Putin (1894–1969) and Socialist Competition: Exploring a Neglected Branch of the Putin Family Tree Reviews

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Julie Fedor; Andrey Makarychev; Andreas Umland; Yulia Yurchuk

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special sections:

Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN V A Debate on “Ustashism,” Genereic Fascism and the OUN II

Guest Editors: Andreas Umland & Yulia Yurchuk

JSPPS Vol. 7, No. 2 (2021)

This issue includes the fifth special section in our series ‘Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN’ and the second instalment of ‘A Debate on “Ustashism,” Generic Fascism and the OUN’, both guest edited by Andreas Umland and Yuliya Yurchuk.

SPECIAL SECTION: ISSUES IN THE HISTORY AND MEMORY OF THE OUN V YULIYA YURCHUK, ANDREAS UMLAND: Introduction: New Studies on the Record and Remem brance of the OUN(b) in World War II

OLEKSANDR MELNYK: Ukrainian Nationalism, Soviet Power, and Legitimacy Contests in the Kyiv Region, 1941–44: Actors, Issues, and Interpretations

PER A. RUDLING:Managing Memory in Post-Soviet Ukraine: From “Scientific Marxism-Leninism” to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, 1991–2019

A DEBATE ON “USTASHISM,” GENERIC FASCISM, AND THE OUN II Featuring contributions by OMER BARTOV, JOHN-PAUL HIMKA, SERHIY KVIT, OLEKSANDR PAHIRIA, ANDREAS UMLAND, YULIYA YURCHUK

ARTICLES : MISCHA GABOWITSCH: What Has Happened to Soviet War Memorials since 1989/91? An Overview

IGOR ILJUSHIN: “A Strong History for a Strong Nation:” A Review Essay on Roman Ponomarenko’s SS Galician Volunteer Regiments (1943–44)

REVIEWS: TATIANA KLEPIKOVA on Emily Channell-Justice; IVAN KURILLA on Mark Edele; ANASTASIA MITROFANOVA on Fabrizio Fenghi; THIJS KORSTEN on Krista A. Goff; ADRIEN NONJON on Robert Horvath; ROBERT F. BAUMANN on Shoshana Keller; ELISE WESTIN on Oksana Kis; STANISLAV PANIN on Keith A. Livers; MICHEL ANDERLINI on Erica Marat; JUHO KORHONEN on Aliide Naylor; NICK BAIGENT on Maya K. Peterson; AIJAN SHARSHENOVA on Peter Rollberg and Marlene Laruelle; KACPER WAŃCZYK on Adnan Vanatsever; A. K. MAGOME DOV and A. I. EMELIANOV on Evgenii Vittenberg

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Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special sections:

Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN IV

A Debate on “Ustashism,” Genereic Fascism and the OUN II

Guest Editors: Andreas Umland & Yulia Yurchuk

This issue features the fourth installment in a series of special sections on the memory of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the OUN-Bandera-wing’s military arm, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainian abbreviation: UPA). Within this series, historians and social scientists detail findings from their research on interwar and war-time Ukrainian nationalism as well as its contemporary public and scholarly interpretations and representations —not least, against the background of the Russian–Ukrainian war (2014–ongoing) and its related propaganda campaigns. In this issue, we also launch a series of special sections in which scholars in the fields of comparative fascism, East European right-wing extremism, and Ukrainian ultranationalism debate different approaches to the OUN.

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Andreas Umland; Yulia Yurchuk

Vol. 7, No. 1 (2021)

Julie Fedor; Andrey Makarychev; Andreas Umland; George Soroka; Tomasz Stępniewski; Gergana Dimova

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special section:

Russian Foreign Policy Towards the „Near Abroad“

Russia‘s Annexation of Crimea II

JSPPS Vol. 6, No. 2 (2020)

Guest Editors: George Soroka, Tomasz Stępniewski, Gergana Dimova, Andreas Umland & Julie Fedor

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 per spectives have changed dramatically since 2013/2014, as have those of its neighbors. The Kremlin today is paradoxically following an aggressive “realist” agenda that seeks to clearly delineate its sphere of influence in Europe and Eurasia while simultaneously attempting to promote “soft-po wer” and a historical-civilizational justification for its recent actions in Ukraine (and elsewhere). The result is an often perplexing amalgam of policy positions that are difficult to disentangle. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.

This issue also features a special section on Russia’s Annexation of Crimea.

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Julie Fedor; Rory Finnin; Ivan Kozachenko; Andreas Umland; Yuliya Yurchuk

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special sections:

Multilingualism in Ukraine

Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN III

JSPPS Vol. 6, No. 1 (2020)

Guest Editors: Rory Finnin, Ivan Kozachenko, Andreas Umland & Yuliya Yurchuk

Special Section: Multilingualism in Ukraine

Rory Finnin, Ivan Kozachenko: Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism

Taras Koznarsky: The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych

Myroslav Shkandrij: Channel Switching: Language Change and the Conversion Trope in Modern Ukrainian Literature

Laada Bilaniuk: Linguistic Conversion in Ukraine: Nation-Building on the Self Vitaly Chernetsky: Ukrainian Cinema and the Challenges of Multilingualism: From the 1930s to the Present

Iryna Shuvalova: Multilingualism in the Songs of the War in Donbas

Olenka Bilash: Multilingualism in the Academy: Language Dynamics in Ukraine’s Higher Educa tion Institutions

Alina Zubkovych: Language Use among Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: Context and Practice

Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN III

Andreas Umland, Yuliya Yurchuk: Introduction: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and European Fascism During World War II

Kai Struve: The OUN(b), the Germans, and Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern Galicia during Sum mer 1941

Yuri Radchenko: The Biography of the OUN(m) Activist Oleksa Babii in the Light of His “Me moirs on Escaping Execution” (1942)

Tomislav Dulić, Goran Miljan: The Ustašas and Fascism: “Abolitionism,” Revolution, and Ideology (1929–42)

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Julie Fedor; Andrey Makarychev; Andreas Umland; Gergana Dimova; Eleonora Narvselius

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special Issue: Remembering Diversity in East–Central European Cityscapes

JSPPS Vol. 5, No. 2

Guest Editor: Eleonora Narvselius

Based on up-to-date field material, this issue focuses on the palimpsest-like environments of East-Central European borderland cities. The present shapes and contents of these urban en vironments derive from combinations of cultural continuities and political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective memories about the contentious past, expressive material forms and less conspicuous meaning-making activities of human actors; they evolve from perpetual tensions between the choices of the present and the weight of the past. The contributors address a set of key questions: What is specific about the transnationalization of memory in these urban public spaces? What are the political rationales and ramifications of the different approaches taken to the legacies of perished population groups in different cities? How do these approaches relate to European dimensions of memory and the „European vector“ of identity-making of the contem porary urban populations?

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Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special section:

Russia’s Annexation of Crimea I

JSPPS Vol. 5, No. 1 (2019)

Guest Editors: Gergana Dimova & Andreas Umland

Gergana Dimova: Legal Loopholes and Judicial Debates: Essays on Russia’s 2014 Annexation of Crimea and Its Consequences for International Law

Agata Kleczkowska: The Obligation of Non-Recognition: The Case of the Annexation of Crimea

Dasha Dubinsky, Peter Rutland: Russia’s Legal Position on the Annexation of Crimea

Maria Shagina: Business as Usual: Sanctions Circumvention by Western Firms in Crimea

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Håvard Bækken: The Return to Patriotic Education in Post-Soviet Russia

Melanie G. Mierzejewski-Voznyak: Political Parties and the Institution of Membership in Ukraine

Reviews:

Kiril Kolev on Ognian Shentov, Ruslan Stefanov and Martin Vladimirov; Ana-Maria Anghelescu on Alexander Cooley and John Heathershaw; Aija Lulle on Irene Kacandes and Yuliya Koms ka; Vera Rogova on Chris Miller; Elliot Dolan-Evans on Marci Shore; Aleksandra Pomiecko on Lawrence Douglas

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Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN II

JSPPS Vol. 4, No. 2 (2018)

Guest Editors: Andreas Umland & Yuliya Yurchuk

Featuring a special section on “Russian Foreign Policy Towards the ‚Near Abroad‘”

Issue 4,2 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 is paradoxically following an aggressive “realist” agenda that seeks to clearly delineate its sphere of influence in Europe and Eurasia while simultaneously attempting to promote “soft-power” and a historical-civilizational justification for its recent actions in Ukraine (and elsewhere). The result is an often perplexing amalgam of policy positions that are difficult to disentangle. The contributors to this special issue are all regional specialists based either in Europe or the United States.

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Julie Fedor; Andrey Makarychev, Nina Rozhanovskaya

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special section: Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics

JSPPS Vol. 4, No. 1 (2018)

Guest Editors: Andrey Makarychev & Nina Rozhanovskaya

Featuring a special section on “Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics”

This issue‘s special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Uk rainian and Russian narratives of national identity. It gives the floor to Russian and Ukrainian authors with a view to enabling analytical comparisons between the dominant narratives in the two countries, including their cultural, historical, and political dimensions. This juxtaposition of Russian and Ukrainian insights is aimed at deepening our understanding of the Russian-Ukraini an conflict.

Andrey Makarychev and Nina Rozhanovskaya: Introduction

Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk: The Night Wolves’ Anti-Maidan and Cultural Representa tions of Russian Imperial Nationalism

Natalia Moussienko: Cultural and Performative Dimensions of the Kyiv Maidan (2013–2014)

Oleksiy Krysenko: Regional Political Regimes in Ukraine after the Euromaidan

Sergey Sukhankin: Russian Regionalism in Action: The Case of the North-Western Federal District (1991–2017)

Oleksandr Potiekhin and Maryna Bessonova: Ukrainian Attitudes toward the United States during the Russian Military Intervention

Victoria I. Zhuravleva: Images of the United States in Putin’s Russia, from Obama to Trump Roman Abramov: New Trends in the Museumification of the Soviet Past in Russia (2008–2018) Valentyna Kharkhun: Museumification of the Soviet Past in the Context of Ukrainian Memory Politics Kateryna Smagliy: Ukraine’s Civil Society after the Euromaidan: Were Any Lessons Learned from the 2004 Orange Revolution?

Anna Arutunyan: Agency in Russia: The Case for a Maturing Civil Society

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Julie Fedor; Samuel Greene; Andre Härtel; Andrey Makarychev; Umland, Andreas

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Special section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN I

JSPPS Vol. 3, No. 2 (2017)

Guest Editors: Andreas Umland & Yuliya Yurchuk

Andrew Wilson: The Crimean Tatar Question: A Prism for Changing Nationalisms and Rival Versions of Eurasianism

Alexander Etkind and Ilya Yablokov: Global Crises as Western Conspiracies: Russian Theories on Oil Prices and the Ruble Exchange Rate Natalia Samover: She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, or a Note about the Soviet Dissident Bacronym “Sof’ia Vlasev’na”

Special Section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN I Andreas Umland and Yuliya Yurchuk: Introduction: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Memory Politics, Public Debates, and Foreign Affairs

Per Anders Rudling: The Bandera Cult in Ukraine and Canada Yaroslav Hrytsak: Ukrainian Memory Culture Post‐1991: The Case of Stepan Bandera Yuliya Yurchuk: Rivne’s Memory of Taras Bul’ba‐Borovets’: A Regional Perspective on the Forma tion of the Founding Myth of the UPA Łukasz Adamski: Kyiv’s “Volhynian Negationism:” Reflections on the 2016 Polish–Ukrainian Memory Conflict Reviews: Alina Zubkovych on Serhii Plokhy; Yuri Radchenko on Raz Segal; Alla Marchenko on Paul Ro bert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern; Arkadi Zeltser on Anika Walke; Galina Belokurova on Jennifer Suchland; Geir Flikke on Aglaya Snetkov

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Julie Fedor; Samuel Greene; André Härtel; Andrey Makarychev; Andreas Umland

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

A New Land: Rediscovering Agency in Belarusian History, Politics, and Society

JSPPS Vol. 3, No. 1 (2017)

Guest Editors: Felix Ackermann, Mark Berman, Olga Sasunkevich

This special issue provides a forum for discussion of what Belarusian Studies are today and which new approaches and questions are needed to revitalize the field in the regional and international academic arena. The major aim of the issue is to go beyond the narratives of dictatorship and au thoritarianism as well as that of a never-ending story of failed Belarusian nationalism—interpre tive schemes that are frequently used for understanding Belarus in scholarly literature in Western Europe and Northern America. Bringing together ongoing research based on original empirical material from Belarusian history, politics, and society, this issue combines a discussion of the concept of autonomy/agency with its applicability to trace how individual and collective actors who define themselves as Belarusian—or otherwise— have manifested their agendas in various practices in spite of and in reaction to state pressure. This issue offers new approaches for interpreting Belarusian society as a dynamically changing set of agencies. In doing so, it attempts to overcome a tradition of locating present Belarusian political and social dilemmas in its socialist past.

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Julie Fedor; Samuel Greene; André Härtel; Andrey Makarychev; Andreas Umland

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Violence in the Post-Soviet Space

JSPPS Vol. 2, No. 2 (2016)

Guest Editors: Marcin Kaczmarski; Natasha Kuhrt

This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. The central preoccupation is to examine both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, in this space. Simultaneously the special issue aspires to situate these discourses and practices in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic and separatist conflict, and to examine these from political, legal, and security studies perspectives. The issue approaches the problem of violence in the post-Soviet space from three perspectives: The international-structural, inter-state, and domestic-political. The contributors focus on struc tural sources of violence: The relevance of the self-determination principle, the role of democratiz ation, and the relationship between violent behavior inside and outside the state. They also analyze the role of the Russian Federation in generating, perpetuating, and mitigating political violence. Finally, they adopt a bottom-up approach, exploring how non-state actors contribute to political violence.

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Julie Fedor; Samuel Greene; André Härtel; Andrey Makarychev; Andreas Umland

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Gender, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Anti-Authoritarian Protests in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine

JSPPS Vol. 2, No. 1 (2016)

Guest Editor: Olesya Khromeychuk

This special issue focuses on gender dynamics in protest movements that occur in patriarchal, authoritarian, and semi-authoritarian societies. Themes covered include the place of feminist and gender equality movements in democratically restricted environments, intersections between feminism and nationalism, the relationship between nationality and sexuality, the question of political agency of non-mainstream groups in the context of protest activity, and the dilemmas of conducting qualitative research while participating in a protest. The journal features contributions by scholars, gender equality activists, and artists, and provi des a wide‐ranging discussion of recent and ongoing protest movements in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

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Julie Fedor; Samuel Greene; André Härtel; Andrey Makarychev; Andreas Umland

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

Double Special Issue

Part 1: Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans

Part 2: Martyrdom and Memory in Eastern Europe

JSPPS Vol. 1, No. 2 (2015)

Part 1: Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans Guest Editors: Felix Ackermann, Michael Galbas

When Soviet troops entered Afghanistan on 25 December 1979, the last large-scale battle of the Cold War started. From the perspective of conscripts from the European parts of the Soviet Union, this was a war that took place in a remote country; yet the war had a substantial impact on the different home societies, both before and after the soldiers returned from Afghanistan. This special issue analyzes this impact with an emphasis on the ways in which the veterans dealt with the violent experience of the Soviet-Afghan War and its consequences in different Soviet and post-Soviet societies. The different contributions take into consideration the social, legal and me dia strategies applied with a view to (re)integrating the (often traumatized) veterans in radically changed political contexts after the dissolution of the USSR.

Part 2: Martyrdom and Memory in Eastern Europe

Guest Editors: Uilleam Blacker, Julie Fedor

This interdisciplinary collection of articles explores the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world. How are these narratives re-shaping contemporary commemorative cultures, national identities, and public space? How is martyrdom formulated and expressed across cultural production, political discourse, and other channels? What ideological, meaning-making, and identity-making functions do these narratives fulfil, and what political ramifications do they have? What are the concrete implications of the rise of these discourses for the internal and cross-border social and political relations within and among these states?

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Julie Fedor; Samuel Greene; André Härtel; Andrey Makarychev; Andreas Umland

Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

The Russian Media and the War in Ukraine

JSPPS Vol. 1, No. 1 (2015)

The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled, and legitimized by a Russian infor mation war campaign that is unprecedented in its scope and nature. Increasingly lurid in form, sometimes surreal, the Russian state-media propaganda campaign has been surprisingly suc cessful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia and beyond.

This special issue sets out to launch an interdisciplinary discussion on the Russian information warfare being waged in parallel with the military war in Ukraine. How is the war being packaged and narrated for domestic and international audiences? How are these narratives being received in Russia and in the West? What new trends can be observed in the identification and construction of ‘enemies’? How do we interpret and explain the imperial hysteria and hatred currently on dis play on Russian TV? What are the appropriate responses? How can we avoid the trap of allowing Kremlin propagandists to shape the terms and language in which the war is viewed?

Contributors:

Anne Applebaum, Margarita Akhvlediani, Sabra Ayres, Edwin Bacon, Tatiana Bonch-Os molovskaya, Renaud De La Brosse, Julie Fedor, Rory Finnin, Rolf Fredheim, Elizaveta Gaufman, James Marson, Nikolay Mitrokhin, Sarah Oates, Alexandr Osipian, Simon Ostrovsky, Kevin M. F. Platt, Peter Pomerantsev, Tatiana Riabova, Oleg Riabov, Natalia Rulyova, Michael Weiss, Maksym Yakovlyev, Vera Zvereva

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Journal of Soviet and PoSt-Soviet PoliticS and Society

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Russian Disinformation and Western Scholarship

Guest Editor: Taras Kuzio

Western academics, experts, and journalists specializing in Eastern Europe and Eurasia have grappled with two fundamental analytical crises in connection with the 1991 disintegration of the USSR and Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine. Both crises were brought about by similar lack of understanding by scholars, think tank experts, and journalists of Moscow’s relations with its neighbors. Typically, they were characterized by a downplaying of the historic and current role of Russian great power nationalism.

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-Rus sian sentiments among Western academics, experts, and journalists. The contributors analyze the downplaying of Russian nationalism, misinterpretations of the 2014 crisis, sympathetic portrayals of Crimea’s occupation, and the use of the term “civil war” rather than “Russian–Ukrainian war” for the Donbas conflict in academia as well as the think tank world and media in the UK, Germa ny, Poland, Japan, USA, and Canada.

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