Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe: 179 (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society) - Softcover

Minakov, Prof Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 383821112X ISBN 13: 9783838211121

Publisher: ibidem, 2018

Synopsis

This book dissects—from both philosophical and empirical viewpoints—the peculiar developmental challenges, geopolitical contexts, and dystopic stalemates that post-Soviet societies face during their transition to new political and cultural orders. The principal geographical focus of the essays is Ukraine, but most of the assembled texts are also relevant and/or refer to other post-Soviet countries.
Mikhail Minakov describes how former Soviet nations are trying to re-invent, for their particular circumstances, democracy and capitalism while concurrently dealing with new poverty and inequality, facing unusual degrees of freedom and responsibility for their own future, coming to terms with complicated collective memories and individual pasts. Finally, the book puts forward novel perspectives on how Western and post-communist Europe may be able to create a sustainable pan-European common space. These include a new agenda for pan-European political communication, new East-Central European regional security mechanisms, a solution for the chain of separatist-controlled populations, and anti-patronalist institutions in East European countries.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: ibidem
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 383821112X
• ISBN 13: 9783838211121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360