"These lively essays make for the rare collection that is greater than the sum of its parts. Bookended by a substantive Foreword and Afterword, they upend the standard ̀diagnosis of nostalgia' found across the former Soviet bloc, refuting the popular conception that Eastern Europ…
In this volume, a set of issue and country experts tackle the questions surrounding the challenges of a resurgent Russia for the world order as well as for relations between the European Union and the United States. Following a brief introduction laying out the circumstances of…
"The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1991 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet bloc countries joining the European …
"Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup of August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command…
The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry in a broad range of disciplines. New methodological and theoretical approaches have shed light on the meanings and practices that, for good and for bad, turn the state into the great enframer of our lives. This vol…
Theoretically sophisticated ethnographies of different aspects of various governments, showing the importance of such work to anthropology and to the study of states in general.
This text reflects upon the ten years since the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe and looks at what lies ahead for the future. It addresses issues such as liberal democracy and its enemies and modernity and discontent.
The tenth anniversary of the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe is the basis for this text which reflects upon the past ten years and what lies ahead for the future. An international group of academics and public intellectuals, including former dissidents and ac…
This text reflects upon the ten years since the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe and looks at what lies ahead for the future. It addresses issues such as liberal democracy and its enemies and modernity and discontent.
