Russia Before the Full-Scale War

Vol. I: Elites, Institutions, and Society, 1991-2021
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-8382-1935-6
Verlag: Ibidem-Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society

For Europe, the 24th of February 2022 marked a historic turning point. Until then, many decision-makers and commentators did not understand that developments in post-communist Russia can lead to the biggest war in Europe since 1945.

These two collected volumes illustrate some of the factors preparing this tragic escalation. They assemble select papers published mainly in the Germany-based and (Forum for the Contemporary History and Ideas of Eastern Europe).

This first volume reflects upon some critical characteristics of the late Soviet and post-Soviet elites, institutions, and society of Russia.

The volume’s contributors areHåvard Bækken (Oslo), Olenka Dmytryk (Kyiv), Rolf Fredheim (Riga), Konstantin Kaminskij (Berlin), Leonid Luks (Eichstätt), Chris Monday (Seoul), Alexander J. Motyl (New Brunswick), Felix Riefer (Bonn), Natalia Samover (Moscow), Simon Schlegel (Kyiv), and Maria Snegovaya (Washington, DC).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riefer, Felix

Luks, Leonid

Fedor, Julie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Umland, Andreas

Motyl, Alexander

Kaminskij, Konstantin

Kirkwood, Michael

Marsh, Rosalind

Suslov, Mikhail

Baekken, Havard

Dmytryk, Olenka

Fredheim, Rolf

Monday, Chris

Samover, Natalia

Schlegel, Simon

Snegovaya, Maria

Über Autor(innen)

Fedor, Julie
Dr. Julie Fedor studied History at Melbourne and Cambridge, UK. She is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Melbourne, author of Russia and the Cult of State Security (Routledge 2011), and the General Editor of the Journal of Soviet Post-Soviet Politics and Society.

Riefer, Felix
Dr. Felix Riefer studied Politics at Cologne and Paris. He is an independent analyst in Bonn, the Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, and the author of Russlands Außenpolitik unter Putin 2000–2018 (Springer/Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2020).

Umland, Andreas
Dr. Andreas Umland studied Politics at Berlin, Oxford, Stanford, and Cambridge, UK. He is an Analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies in the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Associate Professor of Political Science at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Baekken, Havard
Håvard?Bækken is professor of Russian Area Studies at the Norwegian Defence University College. His recent research focuses on patriotic education and militarized identity policy in Russia?and?he has published numerous articles on this topic. More recently, he has also done research on the situation in the occupied territories of Ukraine, with particular attention to Russia’s strategies and practices targeting children. Bækken is also the author of several publications on quasi-legal practices in Russia.

Umland, Andreas
Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Luks, Leonid
Dr. Leonid Luks studied History at Jerusalem and Munich. He is Professor Emeritus of Central and East European History at The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, author of many books, and the General Editor of the Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte and Forum noveishei vostochnoevropeiskoi istorii i kul’tury.

Dr. Felix Riefer studied Politics at Cologne and Paris. He is an independent analyst in Bonn, the Book Reviews Editor of the , and the author of (Springer / Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2020).