Development and Dystopia : Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe / / Mikhail Minakov, Andreas Umland, Alexander Etkind

• Autore: Minakov Mikhail, Prof
• Pubblicazione: Hannover, : ibidem, 2018
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 pages)
• Disciplina: 947.7086
• Soggetto topico: Ukraine; Post-Soviet; Eastern Europe
• Persona (resp. second.): UmlandAndreas, Dr.; EtkindAlexander
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-346).
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: Complex Modernity and Eastern European Political Cultures -- 1.1. Eastern Europe Between Progress and Demodernization -- 1.2. Systemic Corruption and the Eastern European Social Contract -- 1.3. The Language of Dystopia -- 1.4. War, Peace and Applied Enlightenment -- 1.5. Post-Soviet Parliamentarism -- Part II: Making Sense of Ukrainian Revolutions -- 2.1. Revolutionary Cycles: Dialectics of Liberation and Liberty in Ukraine -- 2.2. The Evolution of Ukrainian Oligarchy -- 2.3. The Color Revolutions in Post-Soviet Countries -- Part III: Euromaidan and After -- 3.1. Images of the West and Russia Among Supporters and Opponents of the Euromaidan -- 3.2. Ukraine's Government, Civil Society and Oligarchs after Euromaidan -- 3.3. Risks for Ukrainian Democracy After Euromaidan -- Part IV: (Dys)Assembling Europe -- 4.1. The Impact of Russia's Ukraine Policy on the Post-Soviet order -- 4.2. The Novorossiya Myth from a Transnational Perspective -- 4.3. Dynamic Obstacles for Integration Between the European Union and Eurasian Economic Union -- 4.4. The Eastern European 20th Century: Lessons for Our Political Creativity -- 4.5. Overcoming European Extremes: In Place of a Conclusion -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Development and Dystopia
• ISBN: 9783838271125; 3838271122
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961007303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; ; 179.