[PDF] Understanding Ukraine And Belarus eBook

Author : David R Marples
Publisher :
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 2020-06-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781910814543

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This book describes the author's academic journey from an undergraduate in London to his current research on Ukraine and Belarus as a History professor in Alberta, Canada. It highlights the dramatic changes of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods, his travel stories, experiences, and the Stalinist legacy in both countries. It includes extended focus on his visits to Chernobyl and the contaminated zone in the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as a summer working with indigenous groups in eastern Siberia. Visiting Belarus more than 25 times since the 1990s, he was banned for seven years before the visa rules were relaxed in 2017. In the case of Ukraine, it chronicles a transition from a total outsider to one of the best-known scholars in Ukrainian studies, commenting on aspects of the coalescence of scholarship and politics, and the increasing role of social media and the Diaspora in the analysis of crucial events such as the Euromaidan uprising and its aftermath in Kyiv. David R. Marples is a Distinguished University Professor of Russian and East European History at the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada.

Author : Julie Fedor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319665235

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This edited collection contributes to the current vivid multidisciplinary debate on East European memory politics and the post-communist instrumentalization and re-mythologization of World War II memories. The book focuses on the three Slavic countries of post-Soviet Eastern Europe – Russia, Ukraine and Belarus – the epicentre of Soviet war suffering, and the heartland of the Soviet war myth. The collection gives insight into the persistence of the Soviet commemorative culture and the myth of the Great Patriotic War in the post-Soviet space. It also demonstrates that for geopolitical, cultural, and historical reasons the political uses of World War II differ significantly across Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, with important ramifications for future developments in the region and beyond. The chapters 'Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus', ‘From the Trauma of Stalinism to the Triumph of Stalingrad: The Toponymic Dispute over Volgograd’ and 'The “Partisan Republic”: Colonial Myths and Memory Wars in Belarus' are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com. The chapter 'Memory, Kinship, and Mobilization of the Dead: The Russian State and the “Immortal Regiment” Movement' is published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license at link.springer.com.

Author : Alla Leukavets
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838212470

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Belarus and Ukraine received proposals of integration from both the EU and Russia. Alla Leukavets analyzes how the simultaneity of European and Eurasian integration challenged the two countries to make a major strategic choice. The study sheds light on the reasons for and genesis of the Ukraine crisis.

Author : Stephen White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137453117

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This book maps changing definitions of statehood in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus as a result of their exclusion from an expanding Europe. The authors examine the perceptions of the place of each state in the international political system and its foreign policy choices, and draw comparisons across the region.

Author : Ryan Ver Berkmoes
Publisher :
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN :

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Social, political, and economic facts about Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Useful facts for the visitor. How to get there and then get around. Maps of major- interest areas.

Author : Verena Fritz
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 6155211124

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Looks at the process of state-building in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia from a political economy and institutional perspective. Weak and distorted state capacity has come to be widely recognized as a key obstacle to successful transformation—including economic modernization and growth as well as the consolidation of democracy. However, so far little systematic research has been carried out on state capacity per se and on how to explain its development. The book provides new insights in considering the evolution of Ukraine since 1992, offering an in-depth view of institutional development in crucial areas and thus tracing the process of state-building. It draws comparisons with developments in Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia (based on field research). To capture the process of state-building empirically, focuses on the extraction and expenditure systems which are a central pillar of state capacity and also a central link between citizens and the state. The book also sheds light on how Ukraine’s potential ‘second transition’ currently under way will have an impact on its institutional system.

Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2004-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300105865

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Yet he begins with the principles of toleration that prevailed in much of early modern eastern Europe and concludes with the peaceful resolution of national tensions in the region since 1989.".

Author : Margarita M. Balmaceda
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442667141

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Energy has been an important element in Moscow’s quest to exert power and influence in its surrounding areas both before and after the collapse of the USSR. With their political independence in 1991, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania also became, virtually overnight, separate energy-poor entities heavily dependent on Russia. This increasingly costly dependency – and elites’ scrambling over associated profits – came to crucially affect not only relations with Russia, but the very nature of post-independence state building. The Politics of Energy Dependency explores why these states were unable to move towards energy diversification. Through extensive field research using previously untapped local-language sources, Margarita M. Balmaceda reveals a complex picture of local elites dealing with the complications of energy dependency and, in the process, affecting the energy security of Europe as a whole. A must-read for anyone interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the politics of natural resources, this book reveals the insights gained by looking at post-Soviet development and international relations issues not only from a Moscow-centered perspective, but from that of individual actors in other states.

Author : Paul D'Anieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009315501

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Fully revised and updated, this book explores the long-term dynamics of international conflict between Ukraine, Russia and the West, revealing the historic background to the invasion of Ukraine.