... Studies 50 (2017) 207e220This article thus focuses on two cases of civil society development in the post-Soviet space: Russia an both have evolved under similar conditions related to the legacy of the Soviet Union, significant difference degree of development have been manifested, for example...

... of the University of California. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Post-Soviet State building State-society relations Informal institutions Ukraine voted ed th ian p onten Everyone officially living on Ukraine s te ies o ted to ing...

...Donnacha Ó Beacháin Presidential and parliamentary elections in Abkhazia are pluralistic and competitive. They have led to the transfer of power from government to opposition forces. This in itself is a remarkable fact in the post-Soviet context, where the outcome of elections very often...

...Theodor Tudoroiu In 2003–2005, democratic revolutions overthrew the Georgian, Ukrainian, and Kyrgyz post-Soviet authoritarian regimes. However, disillusioned citizens witness today their new leaders creating a Bonapartist regime, entering into open conflict with former revolutionary allies or being...

...Andrei P. Tsygankov; Pavel A. Tsygankov The essay argues that Western scholars can improve their understanding of the post-Soviet Russia by studying the discipline of new Russian international relations (IR). The other objective of the essay is to move away from the excessively West-centered IR...