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Development and dystopia : studies in post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe

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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  Read more...

Author(s): Ėtkind, Aleksandr; Minakov, Mikhail
Series: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society 179.
Publisher: Ibidem-Verlag
Year: 2018

Language: English
Pages: 346
City: Russia (Federation)--Ukraine., Array, Ukraine--Russia (Federation)
Tags: Ukraine -- Politics and government -- 21st century;Ukraine -- Economic conditions -- 21st century;Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Ukraine;Ukraine -- Foreign relations -- Russia (Federation);Democracy -- Ukraine;Capitalism;Democracy;Political science -- Philosophy;Ukraine

List of tables --
Acknowledgements --
Foreword by Alexander Etkind --
Introduction --
Complex modernity and Eastern European political cultures --
Eastern Europe between progress and demodernization --
Systemic corruption and the Eastern European social contract --
The language of Dystopia --
War, peace and applied enlightenment --
Post-Soviet parliamentarism --
Making sense of Ukrainian revolutions --
Revolutionary cycles : dialectics of liberation and liberty in Ukraine --
The evolution of Ukrainian oligarchy --
The color revolutions in post-Soviet countries --
Euromaidan and after --
Images of the West and Russia among supporters and opponents of the Euromaidan --
Ukraine's government, civil society and oligarchs after Euromaidan --
Risks for Ukrainian democracy after Euromaidan --
(Dys)Assembling Europe --
The impact of Russia's Ukraine policy on the post-Soviet order --
The Novorossiya myth from a transnational perspective --
Dynamic obstacles for integration between the European union and Eurasian economic union --
The Eastern European 20th century : lessons for our political creativity --
Overcoming European extremes : in place of a conclusion --
Bibliography.