Ideology After Union : Political Doctrines, Discourses, and Debates in Post-Soviet Societies.

Intro -- Post-Soviet Ideological Creativity -- I. Discourses on State and Society -- Belarus and its Flight from Democracy Revised. Political Discourse and the Peoples' Choice in the 1994 Presidential Election -- The Two Movements. Liberals and Nationalists During Euromaidan -- Neopatrimonialism. The Russian Regime through a Weberian Lens -- Clientelism and the State in Uzbekistan -- Calculated versus Ideological Motives. The Logic of National and Regional Coalition Formation in Ukraine -- Family Rule and the Post-Marxist State -- II. Memory, Imagination and Propaganda -- The Militarization of the Past in Russian Popular Historical Films -- The Magic Spell of Revanchism. Geopolitical Visions in Post-Soviet Speculative Fiction -- Diversification of the "Late Soviet". Attitudes to Mikhail Gorbachev in the Mirrors of History Textbooks -- Image and Imitation. The Visual Rhetoric of Pro-Russian Propaganda -- Understanding the "Ukrainian Crisis". Metaphors Used by Ukrainian, German, and British Leaders in 2014-16 -- The Impact of the Armed Conflict in the East of Ukraine on Relationships Among Scholars of Ukraine Across Europe -- Information About the Authors.

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