Communism and Post-Communism News (2012 – 2013)

March 2013:

1     The Russia-NATO mistrust: Ethnophobia and the double expansion to contain “the Russian Bear”          Andrei P. Tsygankov

2     Party system determinants of electoral reform in post-communist states

Jack Bielasiak, John W. Hulsey

3     Monetary regimes, economic stability, and EU accession: Comparing Bulgaria and Romania          Nikolay Nenovsky, Kiril Tochkov, Camelia Turcu

4     Social structure, social coalitions and party choice in Hungary     Oddbjшrn Knutsen

5     The making of Maoist model in post-Mao era: The myth of Nanjie village

Shizheng Feng, Yang Su

6     Ukraine twenty years after independence: Concept models of the society

Karina V. Korostelina

7     Political knowledge in Poland

Robert M. Kunovich

8     The importance of geopolitics in firms" international location decisions: The Polish case          Aurora A.C. Teixeira, Mariana Dias

9     Voting as a habit in new democracies – Evidence from Poland

Mikolaj Czesnik, Marta Zerkowska-Balas, Michal Kotnarowski

10     Is the USSR dead? Experience from the financial and economic crisis of 2008–2009

Mikhail Golovnin, Alexander Libman, Daria Ushkalova, Alexandra Yakusheva

11     Discourse and strategic continuity from Gorbachev through Putin

Richard D. Anderson Jr.

12     ‘Paper Communists’ – Bolshevik party membership in the Russian Civil War

Gayle Lonergan

13     Corruption, the power of state and big business in Soviet and post-Soviet regimes

Vladimir Shlapentokh

14     Farewell to the Caucasus: Regional ethnic clan politics and the growing instability of the ruling elite after the 2012 presidential elections in Russia Marat Grebennikov

15     A contested landscape: Monuments, public memory, and post-Soviet identity in Stavropol", Russia                  Andrew Foxall

September–December 2012 (Disintegration of the Soviet Union. Twenty Years Later. Assessment. Quo Vadis?):

1     Conclusion: Nowhere nation or better life? Ukraine"s past and future

Paul D"Anieri

2     Disintegration of the Soviet Union and democracy development. Twenty years later: Assessment. Quo vadis?

3     Russia under Putin: Titanic looking for its iceberg?            Lilia Shevtsova

4     Introduction: Civil society in contemporary Russia            Alfred B. Evans Jr.

5     Russian labor: Quiescence and conflict

Elena Vinogradova, Irina Kozina, Linda Cook

6     Protests and civil society in Russia: The struggle for the Khimki Forest

Alfred B. Evans Jr.

7     Complaint-making as political participation in contemporary Russia

Laura A. Henry

8     Advocacy beyond litigation: Examining Russian NGO efforts on implementation of European Court of Human Rights judgments     Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom

9     A mad crowd: Skinhead youth and the rise of nationalism in post-communist Russia

Peter Worger

10    Imperial ambitions of Russians       Valeria Kasamara, Anna Sorokina

11     New ‘dividing lines’ in Europe: A crisis of trust in European–Russian relations

Andrey Kazantsev, Richard Sakwa

12     Subversive institutions, informal governance, and contemporary Russian politics

Vladimir Gel"man

13     Policy networks in European–Russian gas relations: Function and dysfunction from a perspective of EU energy security           Andrey Kazantsev

14     Looking for a greater Europe: From mutual dependence to an international regime

Richard Sakwa

15     Russian brain drain: Myths v. Reality

Andrei V. Korobkov, Zhanna A. Zaionchkovskaia

16     Still out in the cold? Russia"s place in a globalizing world

Peter Rutland

17     Russia"s openness to the world: The unpredicted consequences of the country"s liberalization          Vladimir Shlapentokh

18     The institutional change in action: Transitioning to Economic Man

Evelina Tverdohleb

19     Medvedev’s and Putin’s foreign policies. Introduction    

Carol R. Saivetz

20     Reset or rerun? Sources of discord in Russian–American relations

R. Craig Nation

21     Resetting Russian–Eastern European relations for the 21st century

Aurel Braun

22     The ties that bind? Russia’s evolving relations with its neighbors

Carol R. Saivetz

23     The Ukrainian immobile state two decades after the disintegration of the USSR

Taras Kuzio

24     The sources of continuity and change of Ukraine’s incomplete state

Serhiy Kudelia

25     Twenty years as an independent state: Ukraine’s ten logical inconsistencies

Taras Kuzio

26     Ukraine"s ‘muddling through’: National identity and postcommunist transition

Mykola Riabchuk

27     Ukrainian foreign policy from independence to inertia

Paul D"Anieri