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April 2015, Volume 67, Issue 4
- 679-681 Plastic Money: Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries
by Ion Marandici - 681-682 The Fire Below. How the Caucasus Shaped Russia
by João Mourato Pinto - 683-684 Germans to Poles. Communism, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing after the Second World War
by Adrian Mitter - 684-685 Crafting Democracy: Regional Politics in Post-Communist Europe
by Joel C. Moses - 685-687 The Caucasus. A History
by Steven J. Main - 687-688 Uncharted Strait. The Future of China–Taiwan Relations
by Ghasem Torabi - 688-689 Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union
by Oleksandra Seliverstova - 690-691 Books Received
by The Editors - 692-693 List of Contributors
by The Editors
March 2015, Volume 67, Issue 3
- 345-369 Competition for Customers in the Evolving Russian Gas Market
by James Henderson - 370-387 Political Capital, Everyday Politics and Moral Obligations: Understanding the Political Strategies of Various Elites and the Poor in Kyrgyzstan
by Elmira Satybaldieva - 388-408 Non-ethnic Mobilisation in Deeply Divided Societies, the Case of the Sarajevo Protests
by Heleen Touquet - 409-442 Explaining Governance of the Judiciary in Central and Eastern Europe: External Incentives, Transnational Elites and Parliamentary Inaction
by Cristina E. Parau - 443-467 The Exceptionalism of Housing in the Ideology and Politics of Early Communist Romania (1945–1965)
by Mihaela Serban - 468-492 Youth Movements and Elections in Belarus
by Olena Nikolayenko - 493-494 Border Work. Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
by Alena Pfoser - 494-496 Myth, Memory, Trauma. Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953–70
by Marko Dumančić - 496-497 Law, Rights and Ideology in Russia. Landmarks in the Destiny of a Great Power
by Simon Cosgrove - 497-499 The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
by Antony Kalashnikov - 499-500 The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg. Volume I: Economic Writings 1
by James White - 500-502 Iron Lazar. A Political Biography of Lazar Kaganovich
by Peter Whitewood - 502-503 Ethnic Minorities of Central and Eastern Europe in the Internet Space. A Computer-Assisted Content Analysis
by Rafis Abazov & Andrey Khazbulatov - 503-504 The Informal Post-Socialist Economy: Embedded Practices and Livelihoods
by Martin Demant Frederiksen - 504-506 Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave. Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine
by Aliaksandr Novikau - 506-507 International Relations since the End of the Cold War. New and Old Dimensions
by Zerrin Torun - 507-509 Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Security, Memory and Ethnography
by Ada-Charlotte Regelmann - 509-510 The Politics of Energy Dependency. Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania between Domestic Oligarchs and Russian Pressure
by Samuele Dominioni - 510-512 Strategic Cooperation. Overcoming the Barriers of Global Anarchy
by Tiziana Melchiorre - 513-515 Books Received
by The Editors - 516-517 List of Contributors
by The Editors
February 2015, Volume 67, Issue 2
- 171-176 State against Civil Society: Contentious Politics and the Non-Systemic Opposition in Russia
by Cameron Ross - 177-191 Political Opposition in Russia: A Troubled Transformation
by Vladimir Gel'man - 192-208 Questioning Control and Contestation in Late Putinite Russia
by Richard Sakwa - 209-223 The Calculus of Non-Protest in Russia: Redistributive Expectations from Political Reforms
by Irina Busygina & Mikhail Filippov - 224-243 Lost in Transition? The Geography of Protests and Attitude Change in Russia
by Mikhail Dmitriev - 244-268 Competing Ideologies of Russia's Civil Society
by Elena Chebankova - 269-284 The Middle Class and Democratisation in Russia
by Evgeny Gontmakher & Cameron Ross - 285-305 Mind the Gaps: Media Use and Mass Action in Russia
by Regina Smyth & Sarah Oates - 306-326 Ethnicities, Nationalism and the Politics of Identity: Shaping the Nation in Russia
by Irina Semenenko - 327-342 New Data on Protest Trends in Russia's Regions
by Tomila Lankina & Alisa Voznaya - 343-343 List of Contributors
by The Editors
January 2015, Volume 67, Issue 1
- 1-7 Introduction: What Does it Mean to be a Patriot?
by Françoise Daucé & Marlene Laruelle & Anne Le Huérou & Kathy Rousselet - 8-27 Patriotic Youth Clubs in Russia. Professional Niches, Cultural Capital and Narratives of Social Engagement
by Marlene Laruelle - 28-48 Where Does the Motherland Begin? Private and Public Dimensions of Contemporary Russian Patriotism in Schools and Youth Organisations: A View from the Field
by Anne Le Huérou - 49-67 The Church in the Service of the Fatherland
by Kathy Rousselet - 68-83 Patriotic Unity and Ethnic Diversity at Odds: The Example of Tatar Organisations in Moscow
by Françoise Daucé - 84-101 Redefining Business Values in Russia: The Boundaries of Globalisation and Patriotism in Contemporary Russian Industry
by Caroline Dufy - 102-122 Subversion in the Red Army and the Military Purge of 1937–1938
by Peter Whitewood - 123-142 Lenin and Philosophy: The Historical Context
by James D. White - 143-144 Democracy, Gender and Social Policy in Russia. A Wayward Society
by Sara Clavero - 145-147 The Circassian Genocide/Neizvestnaya Kavkazkaya voina. Byl li genotsid adygov?
by Michael Ellman - 148-149 History, Memory and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Memory Games
by Ringaile Kuokstyte - 149-151 Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China
by Tony C. Lee - 151-153 Kazakh Oneri: 5 Tomdyk
by Rafis Abazov & Madina Sultanova - 153-154 Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Hague Tribunal's Impact in a Postwar State
by Vanja Petričević - 154-155 Democratic Institutions and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Europe
by Natasa Besirevic - 155-157 The Media in Transitional Democracies
by Paula Borowska - 157-158 Macedonia: The Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Foundations of a Balkan State
by Stella Georgiadou - 158-160 Human Rights and Democracy. The Precarious Rights of Ideals
by Alba Ferreri - 160-162 The Aftermath of the Global Crisis in the European Union
by Emmanuelle Siou - 163-164 Books Received
by The Editors - 165-166 List of Contributors to Special Section
by The Editors - 167-167 List of Contributors of Regular Articles and Reviews
by The Editors - 168-169 Acknowledgement of Reviewers
by The Editors
November 2014, Volume 66, Issue 10
- 1-1 Editorial Board
by The Editors - 1589-1610 Is Russia the Emerging Global ‘Breadbasket’? Re-cultivation, Agroholdings and Grain Production
by Oane Visser & Max Spoor & Natalia Mamonova - 1611-1628 Authoritarian Electoral Engineering and its Limits: A Curious Case of the Imperiali Highest Averages Method in Russia
by Grigorii V. Golosov - 1629-1648 Much Contest, Little Censure: Motions in the Romanian Parliament (1989–2012)
by Lavinia Stan & Diane Vancea - 1649-1678 From an Estate to a Cossack Nation: Kuban' Samostiinost', 1917
by Ja-Jeong Koo - 1679-1702 Common Foreign and Security Policy Alignment in the Southern Caucasus: Convergence, ‘Pick and Choose’ or Indifference?
by Sebastian Mayer - 1703-1734 Political Economy of Modern Belarus: Going Against Mainstream?
by Viachaslau Yarashevich - 1735-1737 The Politics of Nation-Building. Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities
by Olena Podolian - 1737-1738 Russia's Arctic Strategies and the Future of the Far North
by Ekaterina Tarasova - 1738-1739 Why Communism Did Not Collapse. Understanding Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe
by Marjolein Derous - 1740-1741 Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era
by Marko Dumančić - 1741-1742 Environmental Crime and Corruption in Russia: Federal and Regional Perspectives
by Thomas O'Brien - 1742-1744 State Erosion. Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia
by Riccardo Mario Cucciolla - 1744-1745 Allah's Kolkhozes. Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm (1950s–2000s)
by Martina Varkockova - 1745-1747 Empire De/Centered: New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union
by Mark A. Soderstrom - 1747-1748 Peacebuilding in Practice. Local Experience in Two Bosnian Towns
by Michael Potter - 1748-1749 The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania. Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War
by Francesco La Rocca - 1750-1751 Post Communism from Within. Social Justice Mobilization and Hegemony
by Eleanor Knott - 1752-1752 Books Received
by The Editors - 1753-1754 List of Contributors
by The Editors
October 2014, Volume 66, Issue 9
- 1395-1424 The Political Resurrection of Russian Governors
by Joel C. Moses - 1425-1451 Lottizzazione Russian Style: Russia's Two-tier Media System
by John A. Dunn - 1452-1481 Reconstructing the History of Early Communism and Armed Resistance in Romania
by Monica Ciobanu - 1482-1500 The Limits of Transparency Promotion in Azerbaijan: External Remedies to ‘Reverse the Curse’
by Kerem Öge - 1501-1524 The Place of Memory in Understanding Urban Change in Central Asia: The Cities of Bishkek and Ferghana
by Moya Flynn & Natalya Kosmarskaya & Guzel Sabirova - 1525-1552 Soviet Partisan Violence against Soviet Civilians: Targeting Their Own
by Alexander Statiev - 1553-1571 Knowledge-Sharing Subsidiaries in Central and Eastern Europe
by Sergey Filippov - 1572-1573 The Power of Song. Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
by Emilia Pawłusz - 1573-1574 The Socialist People's Car: Automobiles, Shortages and Consent on the Czechoslovak Road to Mass Production (1918–64)
by Ian D. Thatcher - 1574-1575 Crises in Russia. Contemporary Management Policy and Practice from a Historical Perspective
by Natalia Kovalyova - 1575-1577 Physical Culture and Sport in Soviet Society: Propaganda, Acculturation, and Transformation in the 1920s and 1930s
by Steven J. Main - 1577-1578 Stalin's Legacy: The Soviet War on Nature
by Irina Mukhina - 1578-1580 The Foreign Policy of Counter Secession. Preventing the Recognition of Contested States
by Tom Hashimoto - 1580-1581 Understanding the Modern Russian Police
by Mark Galeotti - 1581-1583 Baltic Eugenics: Bio-Politics, Race and Nation in Interwar Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1918-1940. On The Boundary of Two Worlds
by Matthew Kott - 1583-1584 Social Movements and the New State. The Fate of Pro-Democracy Organizations When Democracy is Won
by İsmail Numan Telci - 1585-1585 Books Received
by The Editors - 1586-1587 List of Contributors
by The Editors
September 2014, Volume 66, Issue 8
- 1213-1233 The Political Economy of Russian Gubernatorial Election and Appointment
by Noah Buckley & Timothy Frye & Guzel Garifullina & Ora John Reuter - 1234-1252 The Determinants of Economic System Legitimacy in Kazakhstan
by Azamat K. Junisbai - 1253-1269 Post-Soviet Civil Society Development in the Russian Federation: The Impact of the NGO Law
by Jo Crotty & Sarah Marie Hall & Sergej Ljubownikow - 1270-1294 The Evolution of the Regulation of Labour in the USSR, the CIS and the Baltic States, 1985–2009
by Alexander Muravyev - 1295-1322 The Dynamics of Party-System Supply and Demand in Poland, 1997–2007. Cleavage Change or Shapeless Shifting?
by Ben Stanley - 1323-1349 Caretaker Governments in Czech Politics: What to Do about a Government Crisis
by Vít Hloušek & Lubomír Kopeček - 1350-1370 Democracy Promotion and Authoritarian Diffusion: The Foreign Origins of Post-Soviet Election Laws
by Max Bader - 1371-1372 Wheel of Fortune. The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
by Ingerid M. Opdahl - 1372-1373 Iz ognya da v polymya: rossiiskaya politika posle SSSR
by Dimitry Kortukov - 1374-1375 Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet L'viv. Narratives, Identity, and Power
by Yuliya Yurchuk - 1375-1377 Georgia. A Political History
by Ohannes Geukjian - 1377-1378 The Soviet Union: Federation or Empire?
by Gerard Clare - 1378-1379 Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
by Vincent Barnett - 1380-1380 Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers. Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India
by Fabienne Bossuyt - 1380-1382 The Soviet Occupation of Germany. Hunger, Mass Violence and the Struggle for Peace, 1945–1947
by Steven J. Main - 1382-1383 Red Gas: Russia and the Origins of European Dependence
by Julia Kusznir - 1383-1385 Emerging Powers in a Comparative Perspective. The Political and Economic Rise of the BRIC Countries
by Ray Silvius - 1385-1386 Murder Most Russian. True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia
by Brigid O'Keeffe - 1386-1388 Changing Urban Landscapes. Eastern European and Post-Soviet Cities since 1989
by Riccardo Mario Cucciolla - 1388-1390 Intellektual'nyi kapital-osnova razvitiya obchestva znaniya and Ot intellektual'noi natsii-k intellektualnomu potentsialu
by Rafis Abazov & Arystanbek Mukhamediuly - 1391-1391 Books Received
by The Editors - 1392-1393 List of Contributors
by The Editors
August 2014, Volume 66, Issue 7
- 1031-1061 Is Communism to Blame for Political Disenchantment in Post-Communist Countries? Cohort Analysis of Adults' Political Attitudes
by Inta Mieriņa & Edmunds Cers - 1062-1079 Russia as a New Immigration Country: Policy Response and Public Debate
by Vladimir S. Malakhov - 1080-1101 The Russian Radical Right Movement and Immigration Policy: Do They Just Make Noise or Have an Impact as Well?
by Sofia Tipaldou & Katrin Uba - 1102-1121 The EU's Support for Democratic Governance in the Eastern Neighbourhood: The Role of Transition Experience from the New Member States
by Balázs Szent-Iványi - 1122-1145 Why Do Non-partisans Challenge Parties in Local Politics? The (Extreme) Case of Poland
by Adam Gendźwiłł & Tomasz Żółtak - 1146-1164 Acknowledgement of the Secret Protocol of the German–Soviet Non-aggression Pact and the Declaration of State Sovereignty by the Union Republics of the USSR
by Keiji Sato - 1165-1187 The Memory of Katyn in Polish Political Discourse: A Quantitative Study
by Rolf Fredheim - 1188-1189 Fallen Heroes in Global Capitalism: Workers and the Restructuring of the Polish Steel Industry
by Eszter Bartha - 1190-1191 Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society. Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania
by Paula Borowska - 1191-1193 Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream
by Edward Cohn - 1193-1194 Fascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914–1945
by Brian Kassof - 1194-1195 Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria
by Emilian Kavalski - 1195-1196 The Kosova Liberation Army. Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948–2001
by Gëzim Krasniqi - 1197-1198 Bear Traps on Russia's Road to Modernization
by Olga Kuznetsova - 1198-1199 A Middle Class Without Democracy. Economic Growth and the Prospects for Democratization in China
by Ion Marandici - 1199-1201 Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance
by Michael Rochlitz - 1201-1202 Globalizing Central Asia. Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development
by Aijan Sharshenova - 1202-1204 The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia
by David J. Smith - 1205-1206 Hard Diplomacy and Soft Coercion. Russia's Influence Abroad
by Joanna Szostek - 1206-1207 Moscow, 1937
by Peter Whitewood - 1207-1209 Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine
by Yuliya Zabyelina - 1210-1210 Books Received
by The Editors - 1211-1212 List of Contributors
by The Editors
July 2014, Volume 66, Issue 6
- 853-858 A Comparative Perspective on the State of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
by Ramona Coman & Luca Tomini - 859-891 Reassessing Democratic Consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe and the Role of the EU
by Luca Tomini - 892-924 Quo Vadis Judicial Reforms? The Quest for Judicial Independence in Central and Eastern Europe
by Ramona Coman - 925-944 How Stable and Reasonable is Postcommunist Public Opinion? The Case of the Czech Republic
by Andrew Roberts - 945-968 The State of Political Participation in Post-Communist Democracies: Low but Surprisingly Little Biased Citizen Engagement
by Filip Kostelka - 969-992 Reading the Tea Leaves: Medvedev's Presidency through Political Rhetoric of Federal and Sub-National Actors
by Alexander Baturo & Slava Mikhaylov - 993-1013 The ‘Mingrelian Question’: Institutional Resources and the Limits of Soviet Nationality Policy
by Timothy Blauvelt - 1014-1015 Gender, Geography and Punishment: The Experiences of Women in Carceral Russia
by Bill Bowring - 1015-1016 The Ashgate Research Companion to Chinese Foreign Policy
by Falk Hartig - 1017-1018 The Transformation of Tajikistan. The Sources of Statehood
by Christine Bichsel - 1018-1019 Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation. The Reality and the Implications
by Paolo Sorbello - 1019-1021 Toward the United Front. Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922
by Oleksa Drachewych - 1021-1022 Russia, the Near Abroad and the West: Lessons from the Moldova-Transdniestria Conflict
by Vsevolod Samokhvalov - 1022-1024 Holding-Together Regionalism: Twenty Years of Post-Soviet Integration
by Ararat L. Osipian - 1024-1025 Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century. Lessons from the Cold War for a New Era of Strategic Piracy
by Ghasem Torabi - 1026-1026 Books Received
by The Editors - 1027-1028 List of Contributors to Special Section
by The Editors - 1029-1029 List of Contributors of Regular Articles and Reviews
by The Editors
May 2014, Volume 66, Issue 5
- 689-709 Inflation in China: Old Versus New Phillips Curves
by Sandeep Mazumder - 710-734 Russia Resurgent, Russophobia in Decline? Polish Perceptions of Relations with the Russian Federation 2004–2012
by Raymond Taras - 735-758 Non-State Health Care Provision in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: Is Politicisation a Model?
by Erica Johnson - 759-774 The Post-Rose Revolution Reforms as a Case of Misguided Policy Transfer and Accidental Democratisation?
by Michael Dobbins - 775-793 Stalin's Great Terror and the Asian Nexus
by Hiroaki Kuromiya - 794-810 The Greying Periphery—Ageing and Community Development in Rural Romania and Bulgaria
by László J. Kulcsár & Cristina Brădăţan - 811-829 A Cold War Creature which Sat out the War
by Vladimir Kontorovich - 830-831 The Convolutions of Historical Politics
by George Soroka - 832-833 Cultures of Power in Post-Communist Russia: An Analysis of Elite Political Discourse
by Jeanne L. Wilson - 833-834 Insincere Commitments. Human Rights Treaties, Abusive States, and Citizen Activism
by Ada-Charlotte Regelmann - 835-836 Soviet Baby Boomers. An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation
by Stefan B. Kirmse - 836-838 Regional Cooperation in the South Caucasus. Good Neighbours or Distant Relatives
by Ohannes Geukjian - 838-839 Communism on Tomorrow Street. Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin
by Simon Huxtable - 839-841 Liberals under Autocracy. Modernization and Civil Society in Russia, 1866–1904
by Catherine Owen - 841-842 The Moscow Bombings of September 1999. Examinations of Russian Terrorist Attacks at the Onset of Vladimir Putin's Rule
by Simon Cosgrove - 842-844 Neighborhood Watch: Japanese and Swedish Perspectives on Russian Security
by Albrecht Rothacher - 844-845 Shooting Star. China's Military Machine in the 21st Century
by Sam Robertshaw - 845-847 Conscience on Trial. The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952–1953
by Christopher Gilley - 847-848 The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia I. Back to Our Future! History, Modernity and Patriotism According to Nashi, 2005–2012
by Victoria Hudson - 848-849 The Religious Factor in Russia's Foreign Policy
by Andrew Huemmer - 850-850 Books Received
by The Editors - 851-852 List of Contributors
by The Editors
April 2014, Volume 66, Issue 4
- 511-535 What Accounts for Party System Stability? Comparing the Dimensions of Party Competition in Postcommunist Europe
by Conor O'Dwyer - 536-556 The Changing Faces of Europeanisation: How Did the European Union Influence Corruption in Slovakia Before and After Accession?
by Miroslav Beblavý & Emília Sičáková-Beblavá - 557-577 The Politico-Military Alliance of Russia and Belarus: Re-Examining the Role of NATO and the EU in Light of the Intra-Alliance Security Dilemma
by Alena Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira - 578-589 Effects of Out-of-Pocket Payments on Access to Maternal Health Services in Almaty, Kazakhstan: A Qualitative Study
by Natalia Danilovich & Elmira Yessaliyeva - 590-612 Did He Really Do It? Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Party Disloyalty, and the 1923 Affair
by Mark R. Baker - 613-644 Discontent and Uncertainty in the Borderlands: Soviet Moldavia and the Secret Speech 1956–1957
by Igor Caşu & Mark Sandle - 645-665 ‘Engineers of the Human Spirit’ During Late Socialism: The Lithuanian Union of Writers Between Soviet Duties and Local Interests
by Vilius Ivanauskas - 666-667 Forging Rights in a New Democracy. Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice
by Khrystyna Chushak - 667-668 Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States
by Igor Logvinenko - 669-670 Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare
by Colin Sweet - 670-671 Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State: National Cultural Autonomy Revisited
by George O. Liber