Issue Editors: Anna Colin Lebedev, Ioulia Shukan, Amandine Regamey, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
Borders remain today a crucial issue across the post-Soviet space in debate over both contemporary geopolitics and historical legacies, as Russia’s seizure of Crimea and the war in Ukraine’s East have shown. Continue reading
CONFERENCE – CALL FOR PAPER – Chechnya: rationales of violence and war experiences
Since 1994, the Chechen war has been qualified in diverse ways by actors and observers, and this profusion of qualifiers reveals a multitude of explanations for the causes, goals and consequences of the war. The aim of this conference will be first to sum up, renew and enrich existing research on the Chechen war, by rereading the history of Chechnya since the end of the Soviet period. Its aim will also be to put the phenomena of violence at work in Chechnya in a comparative perspective that takes into account the renewal of contemporary war studies as well as the historiography of 20th century wars. Continue reading
Issue 14th – “The Reform of Russian and Post-Soviet Militaries” – Anna Colin Lebedev, Isabelle Facon & Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (14th issue Editors) – Articles Submission Deadline: March 15th, 2012 – Publication: Summer 2012. Continue reading
The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies – Issue 13, December 2011 / Anne Le Huérou & Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski (13th Issue Editors) – Call for contributors: “Police Brutality and Police Reform in Russia and Post-Soviet Republics” Continue reading
The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, http://www.pipss.revues.org, Issue 13 – Autumn 2011 – Contemporary Uses of the Second World War in Russia
The Second World War gave rise in the USSR to a myth whose beginnings already existed at the time, but which developed gradually, finally taking on institutionalized form after the 1960s (essentially in the sense of commemorative plaques, monuments and museums) in the context of the Cold War and the evolution of the system that followed on de-Stalinisation (N. Tumarkin). In Soviet sources, the “Great Patriotic War” then became a significant element of identification, the founding event of the new post-war world order. Continue reading
