For Europe, the 24th of February 2022 marked a historic turning point. Until then, many decision-makers and commentators did not understand that developments in post-communist Russia can lead to the biggest war in Europe since 1945.
These two collected volumes illustrate some of the factors preparing this tragic escalation. They assemble select papers published mainly in the Germany-based
Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
and
Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte
(Forum for the Contemporary History and Ideas of Eastern Europe).
This first volume reflects upon some critical characteristics of the late Soviet and post-Soviet elites, institutions, and society of Russia.
The volume's contributors are
Håvard Bækken (Oslo), Olenka Dmytryk (Kyiv), Rolf Fredheim (Riga), Konstantin Kaminskij (Berlin), Leonid Luks (Eichstätt), Chris Monday (Seoul), Alexander J. Motyl (New Brunswick), Felix Riefer (Bonn), Natalia Samover (Moscow), Simon Schlegel (Kyiv), and Maria Snegovaya (Washington, DC).
Series
Edition
Language
Place of publication
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-1935-6 (9783838219356)
Schweitzer Classification
Editor
Dr. Felix Riefer studied Politics at Cologne and Paris. He is an independent analyst in Bonn, the Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and the author of Russlands Außenpolitik unter Putin 2000-2018 (Springer/Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2020).
Dr. Leonid Luks studied History at Jerusalem and Munich. He is Professor Emeritus of Central and East European History at The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, author of many books, and the General Editor of the Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte and Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul'tury.
ISNI: 0000 0001 0902 607X
Julie Fedor is Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of Melbourne.
Contributions
Dr. Andreas Umland studied Politics at Berlin, Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge, UK. He is an Analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
ISNI: 0000 0001 1662 6604
Håvard Bækken is professor of Russian Area Studies at the Norwegian Defence University College. His recent research focuses on patriotic education and militarized identity policy in Russia and he has published numerous articles on this topic. More recently, he has also done research on the situation in the occupied territories of Ukraine, with particular attention to Russia's strategies and practices targeting children. Bækken is also the author of several publications on quasi-legal practices in Russia.
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.
ISNI: 0000 0001 1662 6604
