{"title":"The Politics of Pseudoscience: Power and Knowledge in Contemporary Russia","authors":"Dima Kortukov","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2158874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2158874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41753315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nation-State Reframed: The Memory Struggle over the Genealogy of the Third Polish Republic (1997–1998)","authors":"T. Rawski","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2148541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2148541","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article discusses the memory struggle over the genealogy of the Third Polish Republic which took place in the Polish parliament in the late 1990s. This struggle ensued around the National Independence Day and was decisive in establishing the symbolic definition of Polish post-1989 statehood as anti-communist. The article demonstrates how post-Solidarity mnemonic “warriors,” who promoted an anti-communist definition of statehood aimed at full criminalization of postwar state socialism, overruled the alternative definition that was developed by post-communist “pluralists” and based on the partial approval of state socialism. Thus, the post-Solidarity “warriors” reframed nation-state by establishing their own definition of statehood as the only legitimate one.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"70 1","pages":"253 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48076520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Perceptions of Russia’s Gulag Memory Museums","authors":"A. Kravtsova, Elena L. Omelchenko","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2152052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2152052","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article we address the question of how residents of several Russian urban centers perceive museums with displays highlighting Soviet political repressions (in particular, the Gulag). The empirical base consists of focus groups with different age groups. The method of intergenerational analysis was used to compare respondents’ narratives in order to understand how their different life experiences and time distances from the tragic events of Soviet history affect their attitudes to such museums in urban spaces and their perceptions of how these museums shape local identities.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"70 1","pages":"570 - 580"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43488058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Mobilization in Belarus - The Polish Perspective","authors":"Agnieszka Miarka","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2152839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2152839","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41989058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Remote Yet More Connected? Physical Accessibility and New International Contacts in Tajikistan’s Pamirs Since 1991","authors":"Mélanie Sadozaï, Suzy Blondin","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2149557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2149557","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After the end of the USSR, the mobility infrastructure in Tajikistan followed a trajectory of decay. Transport systems had to be reorganized, mobility practices had to be reshaped, and some areas became less accessible. Meanwhile, new international connections have emerged thanks to new political openness. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2022, this paper offers an empirical analysis of the nexus between remoteness and connectivity by looking at the evolution of physical infrastructure in Tajikistan’s VMKB province over the past thirty years and discussing the rather contradictory yet simultaneous processes of internationalization and marginalization.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"70 1","pages":"290 - 304"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46259847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Russia as a Norm Entrepreneur: Crimea and Humanitarian Intervention","authors":"Betcy Jose, C. Stefes","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2132405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2132405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42960310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pandemic Decentralization: COVID-19 and Principal–Agent Relations in Russia","authors":"I. Busygina, Stanislav Klimovich","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2111313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2111313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45187660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regulating Competition in the Digital Platform Economy: Russia and China Compared","authors":"T. Remington, Jiwei Qian, S. Avdasheva","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2117199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2117199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43281405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Discontent and Anti-System Political Parties in the Czech Republic","authors":"O. Kuba, O. Hudec, J. Stejskal","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2117197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2117197","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Study examines the results of the 2017 elections to the Czech Chamber of Deputies based on the administrative districts of municipalities. Beta regression and Seemingly Unrelated Regression models identify main determinants of voting for anti-system parties and/or voter absenteeism. The results show that the greatest electoral dissatisfaction occurs in regions dominated by agriculture and mining industries, particularly the former Sudetenland. This territory, emptied after the WWII, was often inhabited by people who either were looking for an easy way to gain the property left by the displaced Germans or were forced to move there by the former communist regime.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48263303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Regionalism and International Organizations: Implications for Post-Communism","authors":"Anastassia V. Obydenkova","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2022.2044353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2044353","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Regional international organizations (IOs) are considered to be among the most efficient platforms in promoting an environmental agenda at global, regional, and national levels. Yet, the dialogue between studies of global environmental politics and comparative regionalism is quite recent. The emergence of non-democratic regional organizations (NDROs) is among the most recent discoveries in comparative regionalism and their implications for environmental politics are to be considered. How do NDROs matter in promoting an environmental agenda? How do IOs advance the environmental agenda across the post-Communist region? This Special Issue aspires us to answer these questions through establishing a deeper dialogue between studies of environmental regionalism and authoritarian regionalism. This introduction lays out the theoretical ground for the collection of articles in this Special Issue. It proposes a definition and typology of environmental regionalism (ER) that distinguishes between democratic and autocratic ER. It then analyzes the contributions to the Special Issue within this new theoretical framework.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"69 1","pages":"293 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47032891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}