Development and Dystopia : Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe / Mikhail Minakov, Andreas Umland, Alexander Etkind

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Minakov, Mikhail Prof., Author.

Contributor:

Umland, Andreas Dr., Editor.

Etkind, Alexander, Author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ; 179.

Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 179

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ukraine.

Post-Soviet.

Eastern Europe.

Local Subjects:

Ukraine.

Post-Soviet.

Eastern Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hannover ibidem 2018

Biography/History:

Mikhail Minakov is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, DAAD Visiting Professor at Europe University Viadrina, Senior Fellow at the Kennan Institute, and Editor-in-chief of Ideology and Politics Journal. His research interests focus on ideology, social experience, social and political imagination, as well as long term epistemological tendencies in modernity. Mikhail Minakov is an author of over hundred analytical and research papers, and several books including Kant's Concept of the Faith of Reason (Parapan, 2001), History of Experience (Parapan, 2007), and Photosophy (Laurus, 2017).

Summary:

This book dissects—from both philosophical and empirical viewpoints—the peculiar developmental challenges, geopolitical contexts, and dystopic stalemates that post-Soviet societies face during their transition to new political and cultural orders. The principal geographical focus of the essays is Ukraine, but most of the assembled texts are also relevant and/or refer to other post-Soviet countries. Mikhail Minakov describes how former Soviet nations are trying to re-invent, for their particular circumstances, democracy and capitalism while concurrently dealing with new poverty and inequality, facing unusual degrees of freedom and responsibility for their own future, coming to terms with complicated collective memories and individual pasts. Finally, the book puts forward novel perspectives on how Western and post-communist Europe may be able to create a sustainable pan-European common space. These include a new agenda for pan-European political communication, new East-Central European regional security mechanisms, a solution for the chain of separatist-controlled populations, and anti-patronalist institutions in East European countries.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Complex Modernity and Eastern European Political Cultures

1.1. Eastern Europe Between Progress and Demodernization

1.2. Systemic Corruption and the Eastern European Social Contract

1.3. The Language of Dystopia

1.4. War, Peace and Applied Enlightenment

1.5. Post-Soviet Parliamentarism

Part II: Making Sense of Ukrainian Revolutions

2.1. Revolutionary Cycles: Dialectics of Liberation and Liberty in Ukraine

2.2. The Evolution of Ukrainian Oligarchy

2.3. The Color Revolutions in Post-Soviet Countries

Part III: Euromaidan and After

3.1. Images of the West and Russia Among Supporters and Opponents of the Euromaidan

3.2. Ukraine's Government, Civil Society and Oligarchs after Euromaidan

3.3. Risks for Ukrainian Democracy After Euromaidan

Part IV: (Dys)Assembling Europe

4.1. The Impact of Russia's Ukraine Policy on the Post-Soviet order

4.2. The Novorossiya Myth from a Transnational Perspective

4.3. Dynamic Obstacles for Integration Between the European Union and Eurasian Economic Union

4.4. The Eastern European 20th Century: Lessons for Our Political Creativity

4.5. Overcoming European Extremes: In Place of a Conclusion

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-346).

ISBN:

9783838271125

3838271122

OCLC:

1031336477

Publisher Number:

9783838271125