Ibidem imprint: 334 books

Too Far for Comfort

A Study on Biographical Distance

by Rana Tekcan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

The dynamic between the biographer and the subject is one of the most fascinating aspects of biography as a genre. How does the biographer stage the illusion that is the narrative life, the illusion that the subject assumes a living form through words? In contrast to purely fictional forms, biography...

Kasachstan als postsowjetischer Wohlfahrtsstaat

Die Transformation des sozialen Schutzsystems

by Roland Scharff, Roland Scharff, Andreas Umland
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014

In der öffentlichen Meinung steht Kasachstan dem Bild eines Petrostaates näher als dem eines potentiell neuen Typs von Wohlfahrtsstaat. Zu Unrecht. Fortschritte und Misserfolge der Systemtransformation dieses Landes spiegeln sich im Konzept seiner Sozialpolitik und dessen Leistungen wider. Übergeordnetes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

This special issue focuses on protest movements operating outside of the mainstream in patriarchal and authoritarian societies. Themes covered include the place of feminist and gender equality movements in democratically restricted environments, intersections between feminism and nationalism, the...

Orhan Pamuk

Critical Essays on a Novelist Between Worlds

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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

This collection of essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who—despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him—remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation...

A Life Dedicated to the Republic

Vavro Srobár's Slovak Czechoslovakism

by Josette Baer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

Josette Baer retraces the eventful life of Slovak politician Vavro Šrobár, the principal figure in the implementation of Czechoslovak democracy in Slovakia. From his student days and fight for Slovak civil rights in Upper Hungary to his active resistance to German fascism, Šrobár shaped Czechoslovakia's...

From Vocal Poetry to Song

Towards a Theory of Song Objects

by Jean Nicolas De Surmont
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

Although the song is often the subject of monographs, one of its forms remains insufficiently researched: the vocalized song, communicated to the spectator through performance. The study of the song takes one back to the study of vocal practices, from aesthetic objects to forms and to plural styles....

Mass Media in the Post-Soviet World

Market Forces, State Actors, and Political Manipulation in the Informational Environment after Communism

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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term "media environment" covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and...

Frozen Mud and Red Ribbons

A Romanian Jewish Girl's Survival through the Holocaust in Transnistria and Its Rippling Effect on the Second Generation

by Avital E. Baruch
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

When Sophica was six years old, she was deported together with her mother and the whole of the Jewish community of Mihaileni, Romania to a strip of land in Eastern Ukraine called Transnistria. Death, illness, brutality, and shame became her daily life. Hungry and afraid, she held on to her sanity...

The New Authoritarianism

Vol. 1: A Risk Analysis of the US Alt-Right Phenomenon

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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018

This two-volume book considers from a risk perspective the current phenomenon of the new alt-right authoritarianism and whether it represents ‘real’ democracy or an unacceptable hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships and abuses as well as dysfunctional government. Contributing...

The New Authoritarianism

Vol. 2: A Risk Analysis of the European Alt-Right Phenomenon

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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2020

This two-volume book considers from a risk perspective the current phenomenon of the new Alt-Right authoritarianism and whether it represents ‘real’ democracy or an unacceptable hegemony potentially resulting in elected dictatorships and abuses as well as dysfunctional government. Contributing...

Building Ukraine from Within

A Sociological, Institutional, and Economic Analysis of a Nation-State in the Making

by Anton Oleinik
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

Ukraine drew significant media attention after the 2013–2014 Revolution of Dignity and the subsequent undeclared war waged by Russia. However, the nature of these events and their impact on the social, economic, and political development of this country remain understudied and hence often misunderstood....

Boris Nemtsov and Russian Politics

Power and Resistance

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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

In post-Soviet Russian politics, Boris Nemtsov is one of the most tragic figures—and not only because he was shot dead, at the age of 56, in close vicinity to the Kremlin, the locus of Russia’s power. The “transparency of evil” in this specific case was shocking: Nemtsov’s murder was filmed...
by Andreas Umland, Andrey Makarychev, Nina Rozhanovskaya
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018

Featuring a special section on “Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics” This issue's special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and Russian narratives of national identity. It gives the floor to Russian and...

Re-forming World Literature

Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story

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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018

The groundbreaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of world literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centers of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority genres such as the short story. Katherine...
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