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  • Meandering in Transition

    Thirty Years of Reforms and Identity in Post-Communist Europe

    by Ostap Kushnir, Oleksandr Pankieiev, Li Bennich-Björkman, Adrian Chojan, Spasimir Domaradski, Serena Giusti, Margaryta Khvostova, Christopher Lash, Yevhen Mahda0, Juraj Marusiak1, Mykhailo Minakov2, Rasmus Nilsson3, Fabio Parola4, Robert Rajczyk5, Mykola Riabchuk6, Anna Rudakowska7, Eva Schäffler8, Manabu Sengoku9, Assen Slim0, Andriy Tyushka1, Nedim Useinow2, Emilian Kavalski3, Professor Bo Petersson4 ...
    This edited collection addresses the dynamics of the post-Communist transition in Central Eastern Europe. Its contributors present a detailed analysis of the events unfolding during the last three decades in the region, focusing in particular on identity-building processes and reforms in Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • Post-Soviet Secessionism

    Nation-Building and State-Failure after Communism

    by Gwendolyn Sasse, Andreas Umland, Bruno Coppieters, Jan Claas Behrends, Petra Colmorgen, Nataliia Kasianenko, Alice Lackner, Mikhail Minakov0 ...
    Series Book 226 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    The USSR’s dissolution resulted in the creation of not only fifteen recognized states but also of four non-recognized statelets: Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria. Their polities comprise networks with state-like elements. Since the early 1990s, the four pseudo-states have been continously dependent on their sponsor countries (Russia, Armenia), and contesting the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Philosophy Unchained

    Developments in Post-Soviet Philosophical Thought With a foreword by Christopher Donohue

    by Andreas Umland, Yevgeiy Abdullaev, Viktoras Bachmetjevas, Alexandru Cosmescu, Denys Kiryukhin, Giorgi Khuroshvili, Maija Kule, Mikhail Maiatsky, Mikhail Minakov, Tatyana Shchyttsova ...
    Series Book 259 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    The East European nations’ common past in the Soviet Union connects them in terms of both their political histories and the evolution of their philosophical thought. The USSR’s dissolution created new opportunities, domestic and international, in science, politics, and business. De-Sovietization meant for philosophy that it lost its former significance as a political-ideological tool of the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine

    A Contemporary History, 1991 - 2021

    by Matthew Rojansky, Georgiy Kasianov, Mykhailo Minakov, José Casanova, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Margarita M. Balmaceda, Oksana Barshynova, Tymofii Brik0, Diana Dutsyk1, Marta Dyczok2, Hennadii Korzhov3, Serhiy Kudelia4, Pavlo Kutuev5, Olena Martynyuk6, Oksana Mikheieva7, Andrian Prokip8, Oxana Shevel9, Ilona Sologoub0, Maksym Yenin1, Yuliya Yurchenko2 ...
    The contributors to this collection explore the multidimensional transformation of independent Ukraine and deal with her politics, society, private sector, identity, arts, religions, media, and democracy. Each chapter reflects the up-to-date research in its sub-discipline, is styled for use in seminars, and includes a bibliography as well as a recommended reading list. These studies illustrate the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Ideology After Union

    Political Doctrines, Discourses, and Debates in Post-Soviet Societies

    by Andreas Umland, Jennifer J Carroll, Kostiantyn Fedorenko, Daria Goriacheva, Egor Isaev, Natalia Koulinka, Sergiy Kurbatov, Valentyna Kyselova, Darya Malyutina, Alla Marchenko, Chris Monday, Jesko Schmoller, Pavel Skigin, Oleksandr Zabirko, Anton Avksentiev ...
    Series Book 216 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    The recent history of post-Soviet societies is often described in terms of the transition metaphor. Images of movement as well as changing places and situations were foundational for the social conceptualization of the new nations. The idea of looking for novelty and new beginnings legitimized the dissolution of the USSR as well as many state- and economy-related experiments. This volume describes ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

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    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak ...
    Series series In-Formation
    Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. ... Read more

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  • The Wisdom of Mao

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    Beyond the Little Red Book: China's revolutionary leader and his philosophyIn this collection of essays, China's Chairman Mao Tse-Tung explains the interpretation of Marxism-Leninism ideology that became known as Maoism. This philosophy fueled the Chinese Revolution and the massive social and economic changes Mao instituted as the nation's leader. From examining the way contradictions can cause ... Read more

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  • On Practice and Contradiction

    by Mao Tse-Tung ...
    A collection of the writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution—presented by “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review Books)These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao’s clarion call to insurrection has lost none of its ability to stir the blood and stimulate the mind.Drawing on a dizzying array of references from contemporary ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

    Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire

    by Madina Tlostanova ...
    Series series On Decoloniality
    In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Choosing a Mother Tongue

    The Politics of Language and Identity in Ukraine

    by Corinne A. Seals ...
    Series Book 169 - Multilingual Matters
    This book presents a sociocultural linguistic analysis of discourses of conflict, as well as an examination of how linguistic identity is embodied, negotiated and realized during a time of war. It provides new insights regarding multilingualism among Ukrainians in Ukraine and in the diaspora of New Zealand, the US and Canada, and sheds light on the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on language ... Read more

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  • The Gumilev Mystique

    Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia

    by Mark Bassin ...
    Series series Culture and Society after Socialism
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia's greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent thirteen years in Stalinist prison camps, and after his release in 1956 remained officially outcast and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Between Europe and Asia

    The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism

    Edited by Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov, Marlene Laruelle ...
    Series Book 233 - Russian and East European Studies
    Between Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and development of Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that proclaimed the existence of Eurasia, a separate civilization coinciding with the former Russian Empire. The essays in the volume explore the historical roots, the heyday of the movement in the 1920s, and the afterlife of the movement in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The first study to ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD