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    The Chekist Tradition, From Lenin to Putin

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  • Remembering Katyn

    Katyn– the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 – has come to be remembered as Stalin’s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Their remains lie buried in killing fields throughout Russia, Ukraine and, ... Read more

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  • War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. The ... Read more

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  • Memory, Conflict and New Media

    Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

    Series series Media, War and Security
    This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states – where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism.To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities, producing national memories, and relating to the Soviet legacy. Their pasts are principally intertwined: ... Read more

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2020/1

    Series Book 6.1 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    SPECIAL SECTION: MULTILINGUALISM IN UKRAINE Introduction: Ukraine’s Multilingualism RORY FINNIN and IVAN KOZACHENKO The Languages and Tongues of Mykola Markevych TARAS KOZNARSKY Channel Switching: Language Change and the Conversion Trope in Modern Ukrainian Literature MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ Linguistic Conversion in Ukraine: Nation‐Building on the Self LAADA BILANIUK Ukrainian Cinema and the Challenges ... Read more

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2017/2: Special section: Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN I

    Series Book 3.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a bi-annual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland, Dr. phil., PhD). Like the book series, the journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for new original research on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. The first five issues to date have ... Read more

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2017/1: A New Land: Rediscovering Agency in Belarusian History, Politics, and Society

    Series Book 3.1 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    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 authoritarianism as well as that of a never-ending story of failed Belarusian nationalism—interpretive schemes ... Read more

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2015/1: The Russian Media and the War in Ukraine

    Series Book 1.1 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    The Russian war in Ukraine has been accompanied, fuelled and legitimized by a Russian information 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 successful in disguising and distorting the nature of the war and shaping the way it is perceived and understood, both in Russia ... Read more

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2020/2

    Series Book 6.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    Special Sections: Russian Foreign Policy Towards the “Near Abroad” and Russia's Annexiation of Crimea II 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 ... Read more

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2019/2

    Series Book 5.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    Remembering Diversity in East-Central European Cityscapes 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 environments derive from combinations of cultural continuities and political ruptures, present-day heritage industries and collective memories about the ... Read more

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2018/2

    Series Book 4.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    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 ... Read more

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  • Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

    2015/2: Double Special Issue: Back from Afghanistan: The Experiences of Soviet Afghan War Veterans and: Martyrdom & Memory in Post-Socialist Space

    Series Book 1.2 - Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world. The JOURNAL OF SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY (JSPPS) is a new bi-annual companion ... Read more

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