Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2148541
T. Rawski
ABSTRACT The article discusses the memory struggle over the genealogy of the Third Polish Republic which took place in the Polish parliament in the late 1990s. This struggle ensued around the National Independence Day and was decisive in establishing the symbolic definition of Polish post-1989 statehood as anti-communist. The article demonstrates how post-Solidarity mnemonic “warriors,” who promoted an anti-communist definition of statehood aimed at full criminalization of postwar state socialism, overruled the alternative definition that was developed by post-communist “pluralists” and based on the partial approval of state socialism. Thus, the post-Solidarity “warriors” reframed nation-state by establishing their own definition of statehood as the only legitimate one.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2152052
A. Kravtsova, Elena L. Omelchenko
ABSTRACT In this article we address the question of how residents of several Russian urban centers perceive museums with displays highlighting Soviet political repressions (in particular, the Gulag). The empirical base consists of focus groups with different age groups. The method of intergenerational analysis was used to compare respondents’ narratives in order to understand how their different life experiences and time distances from the tragic events of Soviet history affect their attitudes to such museums in urban spaces and their perceptions of how these museums shape local identities.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2152839
Agnieszka Miarka
{"title":"Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective","authors":"Agnieszka Miarka","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2152839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2152839","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41989058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2149557
Mélanie Sadozaï, Suzy Blondin
ABSTRACT After the end of the USSR, the mobility infrastructure in Tajikistan followed a trajectory of decay. Transport systems had to be reorganized, mobility practices had to be reshaped, and some areas became less accessible. Meanwhile, new international connections have emerged thanks to new political openness. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2022, this paper offers an empirical analysis of the nexus between remoteness and connectivity by looking at the evolution of physical infrastructure in Tajikistan’s VMKB province over the past thirty years and discussing the rather contradictory yet simultaneous processes of internationalization and marginalization.
{"title":"More Remote Yet More Connected? Physical Accessibility and New International Contacts in Tajikistan’s Pamirs Since 1991","authors":"Mélanie Sadozaï, Suzy Blondin","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2149557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2149557","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After the end of the USSR, the mobility infrastructure in Tajikistan followed a trajectory of decay. Transport systems had to be reorganized, mobility practices had to be reshaped, and some areas became less accessible. Meanwhile, new international connections have emerged thanks to new political openness. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2022, this paper offers an empirical analysis of the nexus between remoteness and connectivity by looking at the evolution of physical infrastructure in Tajikistan’s VMKB province over the past thirty years and discussing the rather contradictory yet simultaneous processes of internationalization and marginalization.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"70 1","pages":"290 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46259847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-08DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2132405
Betcy Jose, C. Stefes
{"title":"Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention","authors":"Betcy Jose, C. Stefes","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2132405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2132405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42960310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2111313
I. Busygina, Stanislav Klimovich
{"title":"Pandemic Decentralization: COVID-19 and Principal–Agent Relations in Russia","authors":"I. Busygina, Stanislav Klimovich","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2111313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2111313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45187660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-13DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2117199
T. Remington, Jiwei Qian, S. Avdasheva
{"title":"Regulating Competition in the Digital Platform Economy: Russia and China Compared","authors":"T. Remington, Jiwei Qian, S. Avdasheva","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2117199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2117199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43281405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-08DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2117197
O. Kuba, O. Hudec, J. Stejskal
ABSTRACT Study examines the results of the 2017 elections to the Czech Chamber of Deputies based on the administrative districts of municipalities. Beta regression and Seemingly Unrelated Regression models identify main determinants of voting for anti-system parties and/or voter absenteeism. The results show that the greatest electoral dissatisfaction occurs in regions dominated by agriculture and mining industries, particularly the former Sudetenland. This territory, emptied after the WWII, was often inhabited by people who either were looking for an easy way to gain the property left by the displaced Germans or were forced to move there by the former communist regime.
{"title":"Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic","authors":"O. Kuba, O. Hudec, J. Stejskal","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2117197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2117197","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Study examines the results of the 2017 elections to the Czech Chamber of Deputies based on the administrative districts of municipalities. Beta regression and Seemingly Unrelated Regression models identify main determinants of voting for anti-system parties and/or voter absenteeism. The results show that the greatest electoral dissatisfaction occurs in regions dominated by agriculture and mining industries, particularly the former Sudetenland. This territory, emptied after the WWII, was often inhabited by people who either were looking for an easy way to gain the property left by the displaced Germans or were forced to move there by the former communist regime.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48263303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2044353
Anastassia V. Obydenkova
ABSTRACT Regional international organizations (IOs) are considered to be among the most efficient platforms in promoting an environmental agenda at global, regional, and national levels. Yet, the dialogue between studies of global environmental politics and comparative regionalism is quite recent. The emergence of non-democratic regional organizations (NDROs) is among the most recent discoveries in comparative regionalism and their implications for environmental politics are to be considered. How do NDROs matter in promoting an environmental agenda? How do IOs advance the environmental agenda across the post-Communist region? This Special Issue aspires us to answer these questions through establishing a deeper dialogue between studies of environmental regionalism and authoritarian regionalism. This introduction lays out the theoretical ground for the collection of articles in this Special Issue. It proposes a definition and typology of environmental regionalism (ER) that distinguishes between democratic and autocratic ER. It then analyzes the contributions to the Special Issue within this new theoretical framework.
{"title":"Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations: Implications for Post-Communism","authors":"Anastassia V. Obydenkova","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2044353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2044353","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Regional international organizations (IOs) are considered to be among the most efficient platforms in promoting an environmental agenda at global, regional, and national levels. Yet, the dialogue between studies of global environmental politics and comparative regionalism is quite recent. The emergence of non-democratic regional organizations (NDROs) is among the most recent discoveries in comparative regionalism and their implications for environmental politics are to be considered. How do NDROs matter in promoting an environmental agenda? How do IOs advance the environmental agenda across the post-Communist region? This Special Issue aspires us to answer these questions through establishing a deeper dialogue between studies of environmental regionalism and authoritarian regionalism. This introduction lays out the theoretical ground for the collection of articles in this Special Issue. It proposes a definition and typology of environmental regionalism (ER) that distinguishes between democratic and autocratic ER. It then analyzes the contributions to the Special Issue within this new theoretical framework.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"69 1","pages":"293 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47032891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2022.2109116
Anastassia V. Obydenkova
The year 2022 has witnessed highly turbulent changes in all aspects of world politics and socioeconomic development, directly affecting global environmental politics and posing new challenges to the sustainable development agenda. This concluding essay places the articles of this special issue into this new dynamic global context, accounting for the rising importance of new actors and changes in regional environmental governance in Eurasia. How has the international security crisis triggered by the Russo-Ukrainian war affected sustainable development in Eurasia? What are the implications and lessons (if any) for environmental regional governance? It is safe to suggest that many issues—including public commitments and perceptions, the priorities of governments around the world, an actual increase in the risk of nuclear destruction, the ecological consequences of the war, the energy crisis in Europe, among other factors—have all modified the state of the prewar environmental agenda. Two new articles in this special issue, by Lada Kochtcheeva (2021) and Eva-Marie Dubuisson (2020), have been welcome additions to the collection, shedding ample light on the state of sustainable development prior to the events of 2022 and on the importance of Eurasia in the context of regional environmental governance. Moreover, both articles allow us to make tentative predictions regarding the future prospects of environmental politics, public environmentalism, and the role of regional international organizations (IOs). Kochtcheeva (2021) looks at the importance of international influence in shaping Russia’s stance in global environmental politics and the importance of global image-building for the Russian government before 2022. Among other things, she argues that international influence has been one of the most crucial factors in making Russia’s government more pro-environmental. Similarly, Dubuisson (2020) looks into the nexus of international influence between the United Nations (UN), the Kazakh government, and people in Kazakhstan. Both papers are interconnected through their focus on the impact of international influence on the environmental agenda of non-democratic states. Both studies emphasize the importance of international engagement in shaping the environmental agenda in Russia and Kazakhstan. To extend their line of argument, we also ponder the consequences of international isolation and exclusion for the future prospects of sustainable development in Eurasia and beyond. In what follows, we will dive into details regarding the importance of people in autocratic regional environmental governance, as well as the importance of international influence on autocracies’ stance in sustainable development. How can people and international engagement modify autocratic environmental regionalism (AER)? What changes are taking place in regard to environmental regionalism in Eurasia? These questions have become highly important to understand the perspectives of cooperat
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