Ideology after union : political doctrines, discourses, and debates in post-Soviet societies

The recent history of post-Soviet societies is often described in terms of the transition metaphor. Images of movement as well as changing places and situations were foundational for the social conceptualization of the new nations. The idea of looking for novelty and new beginnings legitimized the dissolution of the USSR as well as many state- and economy-related experiments. This volume describes how the new societies survived this period of regime change, economic crises, internal wars, political drawbacks, and social innovations, and how they are making sense of it.-- Post-Soviet Ideological Creativity, Alexander Etkind and Mikhail Minakov -- I Discourses on State and Society -- Belarus and its Flight from Democracy Revised: Political Discourse and the Peoples' Choice in the 1994 Presidential Election, Natalia Koulinka -- The Two Movements: Liberals and Nationalists During Euromaidan, Kostiantyn Fedorenko -- Neoparrimonialism: The Russian Regime through a Weberian Lens, Pavel Skigiu -- Clientelism and the State in Uzbekistan, Jesko Sclimoller -- Calculated versus Ideological Motives: The Logic of National and Regional Coalition Formation in Ukraine, Anton Avksentiev and Valentyna Kyselova -- Family Rule and the Post-Marxist State, Chris Monday -- II Memory, Imagination and Propaganda -- The Militarization of the Past in Russian Popular Historical Films, Egor Haev -- The Magic Spell of Revanchism: Geopolitical Visions in Post-Soviet Speculative Fiction, Oieksandr Zabirko -- Diversification of the "Late Soviet": Attitudes to Mikhail Gorbachev in the Mirrors of History Textbooks, Sergiy Kurbatov and Alia Marchenko -- Image and Imitation: The Visual Rhetoric of Pro-Russian Propaganda, Jennifer J. Carroll -- Understanding the "Ukrainian Crisis": Metaphors Used by Ukrainian, German, and British Leaders in 2014-16, Daria Goriadieva -- The Impact of the Armed Conflict in the East of Ukraine on Relationships Among Scholars of Ukraine Across Europe, Darya Malyutin