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This interdisciplinary conference aims to review successes and failures of the dialogue between the postcolonial theory and postcommunist studies, which has been taking place in the former socialist countries. We invite scholars to approach the alleged postcolonial condition of postcommunist Europe and Eurasia not only as a break from the colonial ( Read more... )

CALL FOR PAPERS
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from a letter of a potential graduate student:  "I am originally from Russia, to be exact from Belorus (Minsk)".

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics:  Volume 27 Issue 1 Special Issue:The Eastern Partnership Initiative

This new issue contains the following articles:

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Workshopl Program: Political Movements in Post-Authoritarian Regimes

Conveners: Lars Højer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and Morten Axel Pedersen, Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology

This workshop invites ethnographic studies of incipient political movements and corresponding economic imaginaries ( Read more... )

Symposium theme

The purpose of the conference is to build on and advance a new and exciting direction in postsocialist studies, a paradigm we may call the relational perspective. Such explorations have rested on three approaches: 1) the conceptualization of the global context of state and postsocialism; 2) the questioning of directionality between ( Read more... )

Legal Reform Through the Eyes of Russia's Leading Jurists
pp.3-10
William Pomeranz

Energy Intrigues on the EU's Southern Flank pp.11-22
Pavel Baev

Croatia, Euroskepticism, and the Identity Politics of EU Enlargement pp.23-39
John Ashbrook

Snapshots from Central Asia pp.40-54
Nancy Lubin, Arustan Joldasov

Can Ukraine Have a ( Read more... )

Michael Kimmage

The Red Flag: A History of Communism
By David Priestland
Grove Press, 2009
The Rise and Fall of Communism
By Archie Brown,
Harper Collins, 2009 Zhivago’s Children: The Last Intelligentsia
By Vladislav Zubok,
Harvard University Press, 2009


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Ken Kalfus   Post-Soviet Yearning


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