Post-soviet Secessionism - Nation-building And State-failure After Communism Av Daria Isachenko, Mykhailo Minakov, Gwendolyn Sasse

<P>This book examines, through a detailed study of Soviet residential childcare homes and boarding schools, the much wider issues of Soviet policies towards deviance, social norms, repression, and social control. It reveals how through targeting...

The reforging of national identities of the fourteen borderland post-Soviet states has had a major effect in reshaping the political, cultural and social lives of national and ethnic minority groups. This book analyses these national identities and explores...

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first century Europe? Why did Putin decide to escalate Russia¿s...