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TracesoftheSovietUnion
WojciechGórecki
Istalkingaboutapost-Sovietreality
justified?Orisitmoreofanoffence?
Doestheterm“post-Soviet”even
makesensetoday–26yearssince
theSovietUnioncollapsed?Political
scientiststendtoanswerthisquestion
withano.Yet,theworksofacollective
ofphotographers,knownasSputnik
Photos,showthatwhatweareseeing
nowissomethingofa“Sovietafterlife”.
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Hasthewarreally
changedUkrainians?
AndriyLyubka
Threeyearshavepassedsincetheonsetof
warinUkraine.Asaresultsomechanges
haveoccurredintheUkrainianmentality
butquestionsstillremain:Howdeepare
thosechanges?Andwhatwouldittakefor
areversalinattitudestowardstheWest?
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InsideUkraine’sideologicalrenewal
NinaBoichenko
A21stcenturyHomosovieticus?
MaximRust
Insteadofportrayingtheremnants
oftheBelarusianHomosovieticus
asaproblem,weshouldseeitasa
challengeandpotentialadvantage.
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OxfordontheVistula
JoHarper
Interviews
83
Athief’sfearofpunishmentis
incompatiblewithdemocracy
AninterviewwithAnastasiaKirilenko
“Thelongerthesystemlasts,themore
difficultitbecomestochangethosein
power.AfterthecollapseoftheSoviet
Union,democraticreformswereindeed
introduced,buttheyweresooncrushed
withthestrengtheningofthepower
verticalandtheneverythingexploded.”
AnewGeorgia?
KajaPuto
ThemoreperipheralanEastern
Europeancountryis,themorevigorously
itwavestheEuropeanUnionflag.
Georgiawavesitthemostvigorously,
eventhoughitislocatedinAsia.
Seekingthetiesthatbind
KatarinaNovikovaandWiktorTrybus
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Notdedicatedtobigpoliticalvisions
AninterviewwithJanŠerek
Tiredofthestatusquo
AninterviewwithNikolayArtemenko
History&Memory
WhatisaRussianoligarch?
SeanGuillory
Theuseoftheterm“oligarch”or
“oligarchy”intheRussiancontext
speakstodebatesabouttheverynature
oftheRussianpoliticalsystem.
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Polishencounters
CharlesGati
ZbigniewBrzezinski’sdeaththisyearis
ahugelosstomeandmywife.Hewas
America’sgreateststrategicthinkerandhad
asignificantimpactonmyprofessionallife,as
didmanyotherPolesandPolish-Americans
throughoutthelast40yearsorso.
Conspiracytheories
andthefearofothers
IlyaYablokov
