Ibidem imprint: 334 books

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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

This special issue deals with the phenomenon of violence in the post-Soviet space. It examines both political and legal discourses and practices of internal and external violence, broadly conceived, simultaneously aspiring to situate them in the broader literature on political violence and ethnic...

Kind Words, Cruise Missiles, and Everything in Between

The Use of Power Resources in U.S. Policies towards Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus 1989–2008

by Barbara Kunz
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

According to realist premises, the United States has an interest in remaining the world's only superpower, thus creating the need to manage and maintain unipolarity. The pursuit of this grand strategy, however, required the U.S. to adapt its various strategies to individual states. Poland, Ukraine,...

Civil Society in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

From Revolution to Consolidation

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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018

This book is among the first comprehensive efforts to collectively and academically investigate the legacy of the Euromaidan in conflict-torn Ukraine within the domain of civil society broadly understood. The contributions to this book identify, describe, conceptualize, and explain various developments...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

Featuring a special section on “Russian Foreign Policy Towards the 'Near Abroad'” Issue 4.2 deals with Russia’s post-Maidan foreign policy towards the so-called “near abroad,” or the former Soviet states. This is an important and timely topic, as Russia’s policy perspectives have...

Ukraine after Maidan

Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security

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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

When public protests first began in Ukraine at the end of 2013, the failed promise of the Orange Revolution was still fresh in the minds of many Ukrainians. However, unlike in the aftermath of 2004-2005, the political and military crises ignited by the Euromaidan brought profound changes not only...

Language Conflicts in Contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine

A Comparative Exploration of Discourses in Post-Soviet Russian-Language Digital Media

by Ksenia Maksimovtsova
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019

Language policy and usage in the postcommunist region have continually attracted wide political, media, and expert attention since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. How are these issues politicized in contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine? This study presents a cross-cultural qualitative...

Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War

A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity

by Mychailo Wynnyckyj
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019

In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to organize,...

Development and Dystopia

Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe

by Mikhail Minakov
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

This book dissects—from both philosophical and empirical viewpoints—the peculiar developmental challenges, geopolitical contexts, and dystopic stalemates that post-Soviet societies face during their transition to new political and cultural orders. The principal geographical focus of the essays...

Russian Studies of International Relations

From the Soviet Past to the Post-Cold-War Present

by Marina M. Lebedeva
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018

Recently, a renewed international interest in Russia as a world political actor has emerged. Against this background, it is useful to better understand how international relations and foreign affairs are studied in Russia and how future Russian political actors, diplomatic personnel, ministerial bureaucrats,...

Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World

The Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0

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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016

This volume explores the relationship between new media and religion, focusing on the digital era's impact on the Russian Orthodox Church. A believer may now enter a virtual chapel, light a candle through drag-and-drop, send an online prayer request, or worship virtual icons and relics. In recent...

Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts II

Baltic, Eastern European, and Post-USSR Case Studies

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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017

Religion and magic have often played important roles in Baltic, Eastern European, and post-Soviet societies like those in Russia, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Kyrgyzstan, and Estonia. Taken together, the studies presented in this collection suggest that the idea that religion and magic are connected to...
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Release Date: December 15, 2015

This double special issue investigates the experiences of Soviet Afghan veterans and the ongoing impact of the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-89); and the new and reconstituted narratives of martyrdom that have been emerging in connection with 20th-century history and memory in the post-socialist world. The...

Age of Fear

The Cold War and Its Influence on Czechoslovakia 1945–1968

by Michal Štefanský, Slavomír Michálek
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019

Czechoslovakia played an important role within the Soviet bloc, yet its history remains underresearched. This monograph blends historical analysis of the superpowers’ foreign policies with an assessment of their impact on Czechoslovakia and its position within the Soviet bloc. The book thereby places...

International Law and the Post-Soviet Space II

Essays on Ukraine, Intervention, and Non-Proliferation

by Thomas D. Grant
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019

This volume deals with legal issues concerning Russia’s annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas, so-called ‘frozen conflicts’ and ‘hybrid warfare,’ the use of courts and tribunals to address armed aggression, and the implications of recent events for the security guarantees connected...
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