{"title":"The Russian Arctic in the Post-Soviet Period: Dynamics of Migration Processes","authors":"F. Sokolova, Wooik Choi","doi":"10.1353/reg.2019.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2019.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While targeting nine Arctic subjects of Russia, the article attempts to reveal the dynamics of migration processes in the post-Soviet Russian Arctic, and to identify the role of migration in shaping the region's labor resources. The source database includes the materials of the Soviet and Russian censuses as well as statistical data relating to the socioeconomic development of the Russian Federation Arctic zone available on the official website of the Russian State Statistics Service. The research indicates that the positive demographic and migration dynamics of the Soviet period have reversed course after the dissolution of the USSR. From 1990 to 2017, the population of the Russian Arctic decreased by almost 20 percent. Forty percent of this loss can be attributed to migration outflow. At present, the situation has stabilized thanks to state measures supporting fertility and stimulating the development of Arctic areas. Positive changes are apparent in the fact that oil- and gas-producing subjects are currently the main centers attracing migrants from around the country and near abroad. Migration makes up only 5 percent of available labor resources. Of this number, slightly more than 1.0 percent accrues to international migrants.","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130625991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unintended Affinities: Nineteenth-Century German and Polish Historians on the Holy Roman Empire and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Adam Kożuchowski (review)","authors":"Jared Warren","doi":"10.1353/reg.2019.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2019.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125360916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethnic Bargaining and Separatism in the South Caucasus","authors":"Fahimeh Khansari Fard, M. Basiri, E. Yazdani","doi":"10.1353/reg.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The South Caucasus is an important region for the study of separatism. While separatist tendencies are present in a large number of South Caucasian ethnic groups, there are significant differences in the degree to which such tendencies have been realized. Why certain groups in the South Caucasus have been more successful than others in pursuing their separatist demands has yet to be adequately explained. The present study employs ethnic bargaining theory to examine the causes of this phenomenon and assesses separatism on the basis of the relationship between ethnic groups, the center, and patron states as well as the effect of ethnic bargaining tools on these relations. The authors hypothesize that ethnic bargaining tools, namely territorial concentration and external support, radicalize ethnic group demands and are directly related to the success of separatist movements. This descriptive-analytical investigation of ethnic separatism in the post-Soviet South Caucasus confirms this hypothesis.","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130133329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Linguistic Landscape of Post-Soviet Bishkek","authors":"A. McDERMOTT","doi":"10.1353/reg.2019.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2019.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study analyzes the linguistic landscape of post-Soviet Bishkek in order to understand the relationship among Kyrgyz, Russian, and English, and society in the city. The linguistic landscape is the visible language on public and private signs in a given territory. In Bishkek, the capital of the Kyrgyz Republic, the linguistic landscape not only includes the two languages given elevated status through the state's official language policy, Russian and Kyrgyz, but also comprises the English language. My study is based on 104 photographed signs, 15 interviews with young residents of Bishkek, and 40 hours of participant observation. I argue that the status and function of Kyrgyz, Russian, and English in Bishkek society are closely tied to language ideologies resulting from globalization, social and linguistic hierarchies, and nationalistic and educational legacies of Soviet state-building. My findings have implications for the creation and adoption of multilingual nationalism in post-Soviet space.","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129742992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Métis Communities of Iakutiia: Historical Memory and Ethnocultural Representation","authors":"M. Bashkirov, A. Ikonnikova","doi":"10.1353/reg.2019.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2019.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article recounts the emergence of métis communities and the process of ethnocultural representation in the Sakha Republic. Contact between the Russian settlers and the local population led to the emergence of métis communities whose culture is distinct from that of both their Russian and native ancestors. Today, representatives of the métis (or Russian old settler) communities of Iakutiia living in different parts of this region of the Russian Federation do not see themselves as being a separate, distinctive, and cohesive community. Despite a history of contact and interaction, as well as markers of a shared historical past, each of these communities has its own localized identity, which prevents the formation of a \"supra-community\" of métis at the regional, let alone national, level. Another major feature of these groups is nonetheless a historical memory, which is largely based on the myth of their origins, which plays a more important role than perceived racial features, language, or even cultural practices.","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132485514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands ed. by Krista A. Goff and Lewis H. Siegelbaum (review)","authors":"I. Lanzillotti","doi":"10.1353/reg.2019.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2019.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"142 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127024004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism by Kristen Ghodsee (review)","authors":"Rossitza Guentcheva","doi":"10.1353/reg.2019.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2019.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129291672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining Russian Regions: Subnational Identity and Civil Society in Nineteenth-Century Russia by Susan Smith-Peter (review)","authors":"C. Leckey","doi":"10.1353/reg.2019.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/reg.2019.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116914208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Dimension in the Performance of the Russian Shipbuilding Cluster","authors":"E. Efimova, S. Sutyrin","doi":"10.1353/REG.2019.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/REG.2019.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper aims to evaluate an \"external component\" in the performance of Russian shipbuilding as one of the key national \"strategic industries.\" After the post-Soviet collapse and a series of economic crises, the situation in the industry, in general, and export performance, in particular, remains unstable. In assessing the major factors influencing the development of Russian shipbuilding, in addition to economic and market drivers and constraints, attention should be paid to the political and geopolitical considerations that have the potential to play a significant role. The authors investigate whether the export orientation of Russian shipbuilding focusing on the high-tech niches of specialized civil vessels and warships (a) has a good chance of success and (b) could substantially contribute to the industry's steady and robust growth. The paper concludes that non-economic factors have a significant role in the development of Russian shipbuilding, insofar as they hamper the assessment of the cluster's general performance and its foreign trade component.","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125191011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scrutinizing European Cohesion: Prospects for European Flexibility, and of Hedging in Central Eastern Europe","authors":"Aaron G. Sander","doi":"10.1353/REG.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/REG.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article looks at Central Eastern Europe's socioeconomic success with integration into the EU since accession. Findings reveal a major challenge in being able to substantiate \"convergence\" with the EU claim of being \"united in diversity.\" Instead, a divergence between Europe's core in the west and periphery in the east seems more the reality, culturally and developmentally. The work discusses whether the subregion's benefits from having joined the EU outweigh its costs, the cohesiveness of the union, and coalitions that are currently taking shape. Finally, an alternative to the current path is discussed, suggesting that a more cohesive subregion would be in the better interest of Europe as a whole.","PeriodicalId":307724,"journal":{"name":"Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121900050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}