What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the ae…
What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people's conventional values is losing its effective p…
"In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. Two years later, the Soviet Union disintegrated. The collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited the idea of socialism for generations to come. It was seen as representing the final and irreversible victory of cap…
Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives confronts the challenge we face in articulating alternatives to capitalism, socialism and threatening populist regimes.
Central peripheries: nationhood in Central Asia
Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building.
Central Peripheries: Nationhood in Central Asia
Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of nation-building. Although relative latecomers on the international scene, the Central Asian states see themselv…