Russia And Eastern Europe

Author : Katalin Miklóssy,Markku Kangaspuro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000516760

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Conservatism and Memory Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe by Katalin Miklóssy,Markku Kangaspuro Pdf

This book discusses the diverse practices and discourses of memory politics in Russia and Eastern Europe. It argues that currently prevailing conservativism has a long tradition, which continued even in Communist times, and is different to conservatism in the West, which can accommodate other viewpoints within liberal democratic systems. It considers how important history is for conservatism, and how history is reconstituted according to changing circumstances. It goes on to examine in detail values which are key to conservatism, such as patriotism, Christianity and religious life, and the traditional model of the family, the importance of the sovereign national state within globalization, and the emphasis on a strong paternal state, featuring hierarchy, authority and political continuity. The book concludes by analysing how far states in the region are experiencing a common trend and whether different countries’ conservative narratives are reinforcing each other or are colliding.

Author : Ognian Shentov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351109376

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The Russian Economic Grip on Central and Eastern Europe by Ognian Shentov Pdf

This book is about the use of economic and state capture levers for achieving political clout. It details how Moscow has been able to exploit governance deficits and influence decision-making in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe through a range of economic means. The comparative country by country perspective on Russia’s corporate presence, trade, and investment in particular sectors of the region, especially energy, shows the patterns of the Kremlin’s use of economic presence and state capture tactics to amplify political and social leverage. By collating economic data with an analysis of governance loopholes and the political process, the authors reveal the Kremlin’s methods for swaying national policies, especially through the exploitation of governance failures in these countries. The book thereby highlights how Russia’s economic power is related to its wider strategic goals. It concludes that Russia’s economic grip, both direct and indirect, is tighter than official statistics imply.

Author : Mark D. Steinberg,Valeria Sobol
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501757174

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Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe by Mark D. Steinberg,Valeria Sobol Pdf

Bringing together important new work by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe approaches emotions as a phenomenon complexly intertwined with society, culture, politics, and history. The stories in this book involve sensitive aristocrats, committed revolutionaries, aggressive nationalists, political leaders, female victims of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims of Stalinist terror, citizens in the former Yugoslavia in the wake of war, workers in post-socialist Romania, Balkan Romani "Gypsy" musicians, and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen wars. These essays explore emotional perception and expression not only as private, inward feeling but also as a way of interpreting and judging a troubled world, acting in it, and perhaps changing it. Essential reading for those interested in new perspectives on the study of Russia and Eastern Europe, past and present, this volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities who are seeking new and deeper approaches to understanding human experience, thought, and feeling.

Author : Wojciech Ostrowski,Eamonn Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317311041

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Understanding Energy Security in Central and Eastern Europe by Wojciech Ostrowski,Eamonn Butler Pdf

The purpose of this book is to move beyond the approach which views energy as a purely geopolitical tool of the Russian state and assumes a 'one size fits all' approach to energy security in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that in order to fully understand Russian involvement in the regional energy complex, the CEE-Russian energy relationship should be analysed in the context of the political and economic transitions that Russia and the CEE states underwent. The chapters on individual countries in the book demonstrate that, although Russia has and will continue to play a substantial role in the CEE energy sector, the scope of its possible influence has been overstated.

Author : Nick Baron
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004310742

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Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953 by Nick Baron Pdf

Nurturing the Nation examines the history of child displacement – understood as both state practice and social experience - in Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000310559

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Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism by Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz Pdf

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Author : Alexander Wöll,Harald Wydra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134089079

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Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe by Alexander Wöll,Harald Wydra Pdf

In the absence of democratic state institutions, eastern European countries were considered to possess only myths of democracy. Working on the premise that democracy is not only an institutional arrangement but also a civilisational project, this book argues that mythical narratives help understanding the emergence of democracy without ‘democrats’. Examining different national traditions as well as pre-communist and communist narratives, myths are seen as politically fabricated ‘programmes of truth’ that form and sustain the political imagination. Appearing as cultural, literary, or historical resources, myths amount to ideology in narrative form, which actors use in political struggles for the sake of achieving social compliance and loyalty with the authority of new political forms. Drawing on a wide range of case studies including Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, this book argues that narratives about the past are not simply ‘legacies’ of former regimes but have actively shaped representations and meanings of democracy in the region. Taking different theoretical and methodological approaches, the power of myth is explored for issues such as leadership, collective identity-formation, literary representation of heroic figures, cultural symbolism in performative art as well as on the constitution of legitimacy and civic identity in post-communist democracies.

Author : Jonathan Packer
Publisher : Vacation Work Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1854581902

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Live & Work in Russia and Eastern Europe by Jonathan Packer Pdf

Anyone hoping to work in the former Communist countries of Europe needs the very best, up-to-date advice. This new book shows where the best possibilities are for both the prospective employee and the enterprising entrepreneur hoping to start a business.

Author : Mark Beissinger,Stephen Kotkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054172

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Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe by Mark Beissinger,Stephen Kotkin Pdf

This book takes stock of arguments about the historical legacies of communism that have become common within the study of Russia and East Europe more than two decades after communism's demise and elaborates an empirical approach to the study of historical legacies revolving around relationships and mechanisms rather than correlation and outward similarities. Eleven essays by a distinguished group of scholars assess whether post-communist developments in specific areas continue to be shaped by the experience of communism or, alternatively, by fundamental divergences produced before or after communism. Chapters deal with the variable impact of the communist experience on post-communist societies in such areas as regime trajectories and democratic political values; patterns of regional and sectoral economic development; property ownership within the energy sector; the functioning of the executive branch of government, the police, and courts; the relationship of religion to the state; government language policies; and informal relationships and practices.

Author : Gyorgy Peteri
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822973911

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Imagining the West in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by Gyorgy Peteri Pdf

This volume presents work from an international group of writers who explore conceptualizations of what defined "East" and "West" in Eastern Europe, imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union. The contributors analyze the effects of transnational interactions on ideology, politics, and cultural production. They reveal that the roots of an East/West cultural divide were present many years prior to the rise of socialism and the Cold War. The chapters offer insights into the complex stages of adoption and rejection of Western ideals in areas such as architecture, travel writings, film, music, health care, consumer products, political propaganda, and human rights. They describe a process of mental mapping whereby individuals "captured and possessed" Western identity through cultural encounters and developed their own interpretations from these experiences. Despite these imaginaries, political and intellectual elites devised responses of resistance, defiance, and counterattack to defy Western impositions. Socialists believed that their cultural forms and collectivist strategies offered morally and materially better lives for the masses and the true path to a modern society. Their sentiments toward the West, however, fluctuated between superiority and inferiority. But in material terms, Western products, industry, and technology, became the ever-present yardstick by which progress was measured. The contributors conclude that the commodification of the necessities of modern life and the rise of consumerism in the twentieth century made it impossible for communist states to meet the demands of their citizens. The West eventually won the battle of supply and demand, and thus the battle for cultural influence.

Author : Lars Kristensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136475559

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Postcommunist Film - Russia, Eastern Europe and World Culture by Lars Kristensen Pdf

A post-communist condition has arisen from the fall of the Berlin Wall and later the Soviet Empire: this book looks at how this condition has manifested itself globally in the production of post-communist film. It argues post-communism is a shared experience on a geopolitical level, unlimited by national state borders, and examines post-communist cross culturalism and global totalitarianism within film. The book examines different national cinemas and dissimilar cinematic modes - from Russian blockbuster cinema to Chinese independent cinema; from Serbian city films to revolutionary films of Mozambique - all formulated as within the postcommunist condition. It considers the postcommunist film in terms of transnational and World cinema. It covers a wide range of films from small and independent filmmaking to mainstream, popular cinema, and explains post-communist signifiers as manifested in visual culture both inside and outside former, and current, communist countries.

Author : Timofei Bordachev
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000435504

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Europe, Russia and the Liberal World Order by Timofei Bordachev Pdf

This book analyses Russia-Europe/EU relations by exploring their practical essence and conceptualizing them in terms of the main categories of international relations research. It argues that the liberal world order, established in Cold War days, whereby international relations are underpinned by a global balance of power and a highly institutionalized framework of international relations, thereby balancing power and morality, continued after the Cold War, with high hopes in the early 1990s for a new order of security and cooperation for all Europe, including Russia. It goes on to show how the liberal world order has broken down, one manifestation of this being the new conflict between Russia and Europe in recent years, a conflict resulting from the failure of European countries/the EU to acknowledge the actual balance of military, economic and political power, the lack of limits on the policy of European countries in terms of infringing on Russia’s interests, and Russia’s consequent revision, after 1999, of its policy of co-operation. Overall, the book provides huge insight into the nature of Europe-Russia relations.

Author : D. Crowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349606719

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A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia by D. Crowe Pdf

David Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages until the present.

Author : Peter J. S. Duncan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Europe, Central
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131964608

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Convergence and Divergence by Peter J. S. Duncan Pdf

Author : Katharina Bluhm,Mihai Varga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351020282

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New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe by Katharina Bluhm,Mihai Varga Pdf

This book explores the emergence, and in Poland, Hungary, and Russia the coming to power, of politicians and political parties rejecting the consensus around market reforms, democratization, and rule of law that has characterized moves toward an "open society" from the 1990s. It discusses how over the last decade these political actors, together with various think tanks, intellectual circles, and religious actors, have increasingly presented themselves as "conservatives," and outlines how these actors are developing a new local brand of conservatism as a full-fledged ideology that counters the perceived liberal overemphasis on individual rights and freedom, and differs from the ideology of the established, present-day conservative parties of Western Europe. Overall, the book argues that the "renaissance of conservatism" in these countries represents variations on a new, illiberal conservatism that aims to re-establish a strong state sovereignty defining and pursuing a national path of development.