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April 2016, Volume 68, Issue 4
- 631-652 The Donbas in 2014: Explaining Civil Conflict Perhaps, but not Civil War
by Andrew Wilson - 653-664 A Perfect Storm; Or What Went Wrong and What Went Right for the EU in Ukraine
by Hiski Haukkala - 665-677 German Foreign Policy towards Russia in the Aftermath of the Ukraine Crisis: A New Ostpolitik?
by Marco Siddi - 678-698 Between Dependence and Integration: Ukraine’s Relations With Russia
by Rilka Dragneva & Kataryna Wolczuk - 699-725 The Ukraine Conflict: Russia’s Challenge to European Security Governance
by Derek Averre - 726-749 Russia’s ‘Governance’ Approach: Intervention and the Conflict in the Donbas
by Lance Davies - 750-773 The Empire Strikes Back: Economic Statecraft and the Securitisation of Political Economy in Russia
by Richard Connolly - 774-796 Sanctions and the Future of EU–Russian Economic Relations
by Tatiana Romanova - 797-801 List of Contributors
by The Editors
March 2016, Volume 68, Issue 3
- 371-390 Russian Challenge to the EU’s Normative Power: Change and Continuity
by Tatiana Romanova - 391-408 National Minorities and Intra-Ethnic Coordination in the European Parliament: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
by Myra A. Waterbury - 409-440 Cherry Picking EU Conditionality: Selective Compliance in Georgia’s Hybrid Regime
by Ketevan Bolkvadze - 441-459 Conflict Transformation and Civil Society: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
by Vincenc Kopecek & Tomas Hoch & Vladimir Baar - 460-486 Multicultural Vanguard? Sarajevo’s Interethnic Young Adults between Ethnic Categorisation and International Spaces
by Oane Visser & Marte Bakker - 487-507 North Korea’s Shadow Economy: A Force for Authoritarian Resilience or Corrosion?
by Alexander Dukalskis - 508-528 Bosses, Soldiers and Rice Grains. Vietnamese Criminal Networks and Criminal Activities in the Czech Republic
by Miroslav Nožina & Filip Kraus - 529-530 The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia 6. The Years of Progress. The Soviet Economy, 1934–1936
by Olaf Mertelsmann - 530-531 Race and Racism in Russia
by Dmitry Shlapentokh - 532-533 Radovan Karadžić. Architect of the Bosnian Genocide
by Hikmet Karčić - 533-534 Property, Predation, and Protection. Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine
by Gergana Yankova-Dimova - 535-536 The Strong State in Russia. Development and Crisis
by Mark Teramae - 536-537 Ukraine Diaries. Dispatches from Kiev
by Nataliya Gudz - 537-539 Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television. Mediating Post-Soviet Difference
by Veera Laine - 539-540 The Elephant in the Room. Corruption and Cheating in Russian Universities
by Elena Denisova-Schmidt & Sergey Mezenin - 541-541 China and Global Nuclear Order. From Estrangement to Active Engagement
by Ghasem Torabi - 542-543 Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia
by Peter Whitewood - 543-544 Khrushchev’s Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959
by Robert Hornsby - 544-546 Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885–1937. Life of an Old Bolshevik
by Geoffrey Swain - 546-547 Maritime Power in the Black Sea
by Steven J. Main - 548-549 Books Received
by The Editors
February 2016, Volume 68, Issue 2
- 205-231 Slovenia: The End of a Success Story? When a Partial Reform Equilibrium Turns Bad
by Igor Guardiancich - 232-252 Levels of Centralisation and Autonomy in Russia’s ‘Party of Power’: Cross-Regional Variations
by Petr Panov & Cameron Ross - 253-269 State-organised Religion and Muslims’ Commitment to Democracy in Albania
by Arolda Elbasani - 270-290 Regional Design, Local Autonomy, and Ethnic Struggle: Romania’s Syncopated Regionalisation
by Dragoş Dragoman & Bogdan Gheorghiţă - 291-311 The International–Domestic Nexus in Anti-corruption Policy Making: The Case of Caspian Oil and Gas States
by Heiko Pleines & Ronja Wöstheinrich - 312-344 Enforcing Stalinist Discipline in the Early Years of Post-war Reconstruction in the USSR, 1945–1948
by Shaun Morcom - 345-346 Silent Conflict. A Hidden History of Early Soviet–Western Relations
by Gabriel Gorodetsky - 346-348 Breaking the Tongue. Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923–1934
by Anna Kyriazi - 348-349 Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985–2000. Generations, Ideas and Changes
by Simon Cosgrove - 349-351 Prime Minister for Peace. My Struggle for Serbian Democracy
by Hamza Karčić - 351-352 Communities in Transition: Protected Nature and Local People in Eastern and Central Europe
by Benedetta Cotta - 352-354 The Substance of EU Democracy Promotion. Concepts and Cases
by Aijan Sharshenova - 354-355 Reassessing Lukashenka. Belarus in Cultural and Geopolitical Context
by Matthew Frear - 355-356 Russia and the EU in a Multipolar World. Discourses, Identities, Norms
by Ohannes Geukjian - 357-357 Russia–China Relations in the Post-Crisis International Order
by Ghasem Torabi - 358-359 Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post-Soviet Era
by Riccardo Mario Cucciolla - 359-361 Politicheskaya mysl suverennogo Kazakhstana: dinamika, idei, otsenki
by Rafis Abazov & Sabina Chukayeva - 362-364 Books Received
by The Editors - 365-366 List of Contributors
by The Editors - 367-369 Acknowledgement of Reviewers
by The Editors - 370-370 Erratum
by The Editors
January 2016, Volume 68, Issue 1
- 1-19 Russian Modernisation—A New Paradigm
by Markku Kivinen & Terry Cox - 20-37 The Imperial Dimension of Russian Modernisation: A Multiple Modernities Perspective
by Mikhail Maslovskiy - 38-63 Modernisation of the Russian Energy Sector: Constraints on Utilising Arctic Offshore Oil Resources
by Pami Aalto - 64-78 Competition as a Means of Systemic Modernisation in State Socialism
by Katalin Miklóssy - 79-96 Technological Modernisation in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia: Practices and Continuities
by Sari Autio-Sarasmo - 97-117 Opportunities and Constraints of Authoritarian Modernisation: Russian Policy Reforms in the 2000s
by Vladimir Gel’man & Andrey Starodubtsev - 118-137 Aleksei Naval’nyi and Populist Re-ordering of Putin’s Stability
by Jussi Lassila - 138-163 Interest Representation and Social Policy Making: Russian Veterans’ Organisations as Brokers between the State and Society
by Meri Kulmala & Anna Tarasenko - 164-181 ‘With a Little Help from my Friends’: Russia’s Modernisation and the Visa Regime with the European Union
by Sirke Mäkinen & Hanna Smith & Tuomas Forsberg - 182-202 Protected and Controlled. Islam and ‘Desecularisation from Above’ in Russia
by Kaarina Aitamurto - 203-204 List of Contributors
by The Editors
November 2015, Volume 67, Issue 10
- 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 1523-1526 Family, Health and Reproduction in Russia and Ukraine—in the Intersection between the Private and the Public
by Johnny Rodin - 1527-1546 The Gynaecologist’s Gaze: The Inconsistent Medicalisation of Contraception in Contemporary Russia
by Anna Temkina - 1547-1570 Prevalence and Correlates of the Use of Contraceptive Methods by Women in Ukraine in 1999 and 2007
by Katharina Wesolowski - 1571-1586 How to be a Good Mother: The Case of Middle Class Mothering in Russia
by Larisa Shpakovskaya - 1587-1605 Managing the ‘Country’s Future’—Changing Ideas, Constraints and Perceptions of Preschools in Contemporary Russia Compared with the Soviet Past
by Yulia Gradskova - 1606-1634 Parenting Children with Disabilities in Russia: Institutions, Discourses and Identities
by Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova & Pavel Romanov & Valentina Yarskaya - 1635-1655 Close Relationships Matter: Family Well-being and its Effects on Health in Russia
by Zhanna Kravchenko & Andrew Stickley & Ai Koyanagi - 1656-1684 Same System, Different Outcomes: Comparing the Implementation of Dual Nationality Treaties in East Germany and China
by Choo Chin Low - 1685-1708 Circassians and the Politics of Genocide Recognition
by Maja Catic - 1709-1712 China’s Re-emergence: Reasons, Consequences and Prospects
by Falk Hartig - 1713-1714 Reconstructing the Cold War. The Early Years, 1945–1958
by Ivan Bakalov - 1714-1715 Poland in the Modern World: Beyond Martyrdom
by Rafał Domisiewicz - 1716-1717 Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia
by Yuliya Zabyelina - 1717-1718 Cyber Policy in China
by Francis Domingo - 1719-1720 Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Postsocialism. Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies
by Catherine Owen - 1720-1722 Bearslayers. The Rise and Fall of the Latvian National Communists
by Geoffrey Swain - 1722-1723 The Global Revolution. A History of International Communism 1917–1991
by Tom Junes - 1723-1724 The Politics of Social Ties. Immigrants in an Ethnic Homeland
by Mehmet Gökay Özerim - 1724-1725 Frontline Ukraine. Crisis in the Borderlands
by Matthew Frear - 1726-1726 The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of England, France, and Russia
by Sabrina P. Ramet - 1727-1728 Institutional Design and Party Government in Post-Communist Europe
by Philipp Köker - 1728-1729 The European Union’s Democratization Policy for Central Asia. Failed in Success or Succeeded in Failure?
by Aijan Sharshenova - 1729-1730 ‘Our Glorious Past’. Lukashenka’s Belarus and the Great Patriotic War
by Steven J. Main - 1730-1731 China and Post-Socialist Development
by Ghasem Torabi - 1732-1733 Books Received
by The Editors - 1734-1735 List of Contributors
by The Editors - 1736-1736 Erratum
by The Editors
October 2015, Volume 67, Issue 9
- 1351-1370 The Institutional Foundations of China’s Unbalanced Economy
by Guangdong Xu - 1371-1393 Ukraine between Russia and the European Union: Triangle Revisited
by Vsevolod Samokhvalov - 1394-1415 Production Efficiency and Beyond: Local Determinants in Russian Privatisation
by Tatyana Intigrinova - 1416-1444 Sacred or Secular? ‘Memorial’, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Contested Commemoration of Soviet Repressions
by Zuzanna Bogumił & Dominique Moran & Elly Harrowell - 1445-1468 Party Politics, Political Competition and Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Communist Hungary
by Dae Soon Kim & Nigel Swain - 1469-1486 What Makes Them Successful? Influential Interest Groups in Hungary (1990–2014)
by Sándor Gallai & Zsolt Döme & Balázs Molnár & Jenő Reich - 1487-1497 Debates over the 1949 ‘Leningrad Affair’ in the Contemporary Russian Popular Press
by Alisa Amosova & David Brandenberger - 1498-1499 Ideologies of Eastness in Central and Eastern Europe
by Raymond Taras - 1499-1500 Living the High Life in Minsk. Russian Energy Rents, Domestic Populism and Belarus’ Impending Crisis
by Katsiaryna Yakouchyk - 1501-1502 Constructing Capitalisms: Transforming Business Systems in Central and Eastern Europe
by Alvin A. Camba - 1502-1503 After Yugoslavia. The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land
by Wout Dingenouts - 1503-1504 China and Europe in 21st Century Global Politics: Partnership, Competition or Co-Evolution
by Salvatore Finamore - 1504-1506 European National Identities. Elements, Transitions, Conflicts
by Zerrin Torun - 1506-1507 Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans: The Narratives of Denial in Post-Conflict Serbia
by Ohannes Geukjian - 1507-1509 An American Diplomat in Bolshevik Russia
by Geoffrey Swain - 1509-1511 Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism
by Julianne Funk - 1511-1512 Learning to See Invisible Children. Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Central Asia
by Michael Rasell - 1512-1514 Language Policy and the Discourse on Languages in Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych
by Olena Podolian - 1514-1515 Understanding Ethnopolitical Conflict. Karabakh, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia Wars Reconsidered
by Zinaida Shevchuk - 1516-1517 History as Therapy. Alternative History and Nationalist Imaginings in Russia, 1991–2014
by Natalia Kovalyova - 1518-1519 Books Received
by The Editors - 1520-1521 List of Contributors
by The Editors
September 2015, Volume 67, Issue 8
- 1171-1202 Soft Power: A Comparison of Discourse and Practice in Russia and China
by Jeanne L. Wilson - 1203-1227 Self-Determined Citizens? New Forms of Civic Activism and Citizenship in Armenia
by Armine Ishkanian - 1228-1250 Online Campaigning in Russia: Evidence from the 2011 State Duma Election
by Sean P. Roberts - 1251-1281 Selective or Generic Activism? Types of Participants, Political Action Repertoires and Mobilisation Capacity in a Post-Communist Society
by Marius Ioan Tătar - 1282-1301 Resolving Socioeconomic Disparities through Fiscal Decentralisation in the Republic of Macedonia
by Aisling Lyon - 1302-1327 To History or to Hollywood? Monuments to Foreign Celebrities in Twenty-First Century Balkans
by Izabela Steflja - 1328-1329 Practicing Stalinism. Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition
by Antony Kalashnikov - 1329-1331 Stalinist City Planning. Professionals, Performance, and Power
by Robert Dale - 1331-1332 Twenty Years After Communism. The Politics of Memory and Commemoration
by Ferenc Laczó - 1333-1334 Accidental Occidental: Economics and Culture of Transition in Mitteleuropa, the Baltic and the Balkan Area
by Ira Bliatka - 1334-1336 Building the State. Architecture, Politics and State Formation in Post-War Central Europe
by Emanuela Grama - 1336-1337 International Organizations and Internal Conditionality. Making Norms Matter
by Samuele Dominioni - 1337-1338 Institutional Trust and Economic Policy: Lessons from the History of the Euro
by Assem Dandashly - 1338-1340 Vizual'nyi arkhetip
by Rafis Abazov & Bibigul Nissipzhanova - 1340-1341 Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950
by Michael Rochlitz - 1341-1342 The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States. From Yugoslavia to Europe
by Stella Georgiadou - 1343-1344 Civil Society under Authoritarianism. The China Model
by Runya Qiaoan - 1345-1346 Books Received
by The Editors - 1347-1348 List of Contributors
by The Editors - 1349-1349 Erratum
by The Editors
August 2015, Volume 67, Issue 7
- 1007-1029 ‘Multi-Vector’ Foreign Policies in Europe: Balancing, Bandwagoning or Bargaining?
by Elena Gnedina - 1030-1055 Territoriality and Citizenship: Membership and Sub-State Polities in Post-Yugoslav Space
by Dejan Stjepanović - 1056-1078 The Transnational Relations of the Contemporary Russian Extreme Right
by Miroslav Mareš & Martin Laryš - 1079-1101 Negotiating History for Reconciliation: A Comparative Evaluation of the Baltic Presidential Commissions
by Eva-Clarita Pettai - 1102-1129 The Great Game Revisited: Three Empires Collide in Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang)
by Michael B. Share - 1130-1144 Who was Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin?
by Michael Jabara Carley - 1145-1148 In Search of a Relevant Economic Theory
by László Csaba - 1149-1150 Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States. Societies on the Move
by Ruxandra Paul - 1151-1152 Green Barons, Force-of-Circumstance Entrepreneurs, Impotent Mayors. Rural Change in the Early Years of Post-Socialist Capitalist Democracy
by Alin Croitoru - 1152-1153 Identities and Foreign Policies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The Other Europes
by Vsevolod Samokhvalov - 1154-1155 Strategies of Symbolic Nation Building in South Eastern Europe
by Michael Potter - 1155-1156 Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania. The Politics of Memory
by Liviu Damsa - 1157-1158 Brothers Armed. Military Aspects of the Crisis in Ukraine
by Hannes Adomeit - 1158-1159 Women and the Birth of Russian Capitalism. A History of the Shuttle Trade
by Ewa Widlak - 1159-1161 Religion and Politics in Post-Socialist Central and Southeastern Europe. Challenges since 1989
by Paula Borowska - 1161-1163 Salami Tactics Revisited: Hungarian Communists on the Road to Power
by Elidor Mëhilli - 1163-1164 China's Growth. The Making of an Economic Superpower
by Ghasem Torabi - 1164-1165 Kazakhskoie igrovoie kino: Ekranno-follornie traditsii i obraz geroia
by Rafis Abazov & Alma Aidar - 1166-1167 Books Received
by The Editors - 1168-1169 List of Contributors
by The Editors
July 2015, Volume 67, Issue 6
- 847-869 ‘How Can I Say it … in a More Tolerant Way?’ Ambiguity, Ambivalence and Contradiction in Youth Dialogue on Ethnic Tolerance and Intolerance
by Hilary Pilkington - 870-892 Signalling Demand for Foreign Investment: Postsocialist Countries in the Global Bilateral Investment Treaties Network
by Nina Bandelj & Matthew C. Mahutga & Kristen Shorette - 893-915 Towards an Anti-Japanese Territorial Front? Russia and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Dispute
by James D. J. Brown - 916-947 Stability First, Development Second, Democracy Third: The European Union's Policy towards the Post-Conflict Western Balkans, 1991–2010
by Sonja Grimm & Okka Lou Mathis - 948-969 Competing Interpretations of Buddhism's Revival in the Russian Republic of Kalmykia
by Edward C. Holland - 970-988 Judicial Disagreement need not be Political: Dissent on the Estonian Supreme Court
by Chris Hanretty - 989-990 The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism: The Making and Breaking of State Social Society, and What Followed
by Raymond Taras - 990-992 Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain. The Cold War and East-Central Europe, 1945–1989
by Anthony Kemp-Welch - 992-993 Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe
by James White - 993-995 Spaces and Places in Central and Eastern Europe. Historical Trends and Perspectives
by Natalya Yakusheva - 995-996 Russian Energy and Security up to 2030
by Ekaterina Tarasova - 996-997 Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave. Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine
by Dmytro Panchuk - 998-999 The Sandžak. A History
by Wout Dingenouts - 999-1000 Dissent on the Margins. How Soviet Jehovah's Witnesses Defied Communism and Lived to Preach About It
by Sabrina P. Ramet - 1001-1002 Books Received
by The Editors - 1003-1004 List of Contributors
by The Editors - 1005-1005 Erratum
by The Editors
May 2015, Volume 67, Issue 5
- 695-717 Market-Oriented Reforms as a Tool of State-Building: Russian Pension Reform in 2001
by Sarah Wilson Sokhey - 718-746 Self-interest, Perceptions of Transition and Welfare Preferences in the New Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus
by Alexi Gugushvili - 747-776 The Fight Against Government Corruption in Romania: Irreversible Results or Sisyphean Challenge?
by Michael Hein - 777-808 The Role of Foreign Direct Investment and State Capture in Shaping Innovation Outcome in Russia
by Natalya Smith & Ekaterina Thomas - 809-830 Between Amity, Enmity and Europeanisation: EU Energy Security Policy and the Example of Bulgaria's Russian Energy Dependence
by Tomas Maltby - 831-832 Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe
by Julia Gerlach - 832-833 The Anatomy of Terror: Political Violence under Stalin
by R.W. Davies - 833-835 Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States. Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo. National and Ethnic Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
by David J. Galbreath - 835-837 Developments in Central and East European Politics
by Dragomir Stoyanov - 837-838 Bosnia-Herzegovina since Dayton: civic and uncivic values
by Soeren Keil - 839-840 The Transition to Democracy in Hungary: Árpád Göncz and the Post-Communist Hungarian Presidency
by Digdem Soyaltin - 840-842 The Far Right in the Balkans
by Bilge Yabanci - 842-843 By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World
by Xiangfeng Yang - 843-844 Placing Ukraine on the Map. Stepan Rudnytsky's Nation-Building Geography
by Christopher Gilley - 844-844 Tyranny of the Weak. North Korea and the World 1950–1992
by Ghasem Torabi - 845-845 Books Received
by The Editors - 846-846 List of Contributors
by The Editors
April 2015, Volume 67, Issue 4
- 519-539 Central Asian Ethnicity Compared: Evaluating the Contemporary Social Salience of Uzbek Identity in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
by Brent Hierman - 540-578 The Educational Achievement and Employment of Young Roma in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania: Increasing Gaps and Policy Challenges
by Jaromir Cekota & Claudia Trentini - 579-605 ‘Letting the Beasts Out of the Cage’: Parole in the Post-Stalin Gulag, 1953–1973
by Marc Elie & Jeffrey Hardy - 606-623 A Power Horizontal. The Public–Private Enforcement of Judicial Decisions in Russia
by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues - 624-651 The Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Protesters and the Authorities in the Attempts at Colour Revolutions in Belarus 2001–2010
by Volodymyr V. Lysenko & Kevin C. Desouza - 652-670 Managers of Transition—Leadership in Post-Communist Romanian Companies
by Ion Voicu Sucala - 671-672 After Newspeak. Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin
by Magda Dolinska-Rydzek - 672-673 War and Revolution in Russia, 1914–22. The Collapse of Tsarism and the Establishment of Soviet Power
by Evan Mawdsley - 673-675 Civil Society in Putin's Russia
by Catherine Owen - 675-676 The Russian Gas Matrix: How Markets are Driving Change
by Irina Kustova - 676-678 Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
by Davide Denti - 678-679 Putin and the Oligarch. The Khodorkovsky–Yukos Affair
by Moritz Pieper