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Reflection of the Diaspora in the Fantasy of a Totalitarian Society

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This paper presents a comparative analysis of fantasy works from two distinct pe­riods: the late Soviet (Vladislav Krapivin’s A Dovecote on a Yellow Meadow, 1983–1985) and the post-Soviet period (Max Frei’s The Stranger, 1996, and The Master of Winds ...
Yevheniia Kanchura
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Tatar nation building since 1991: Ethnic mobilisation in historical perspective’ [PDF]

, 2011
This study analyses the process of ethnic mobilization in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras and assesses the way in which history, memory and the treatment of the Volga Tatars by the Soviet state, especially under Lenin and Stalin, affected their long term
Williams, Christopher
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Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Can norm‐based information campaigns reduce corruption? Such campaigns use messaging about how people typically behave (descriptive norms) or ought to behave (injunctive norms). Drawing on survey and lab experiments in Ukraine, we unpack and evaluate the distinct effects of these two types of social norms.
Aaron Erlich, Jordan Gans‐Morse
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An anatomy of worldmaking: Sukarno and anticolonialism from post‐Bandung Indonesia

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Abstract This article analyzes the anticolonial worldmaking of postcolonial Indonesia's first president Sukarno, during Guided Democracy (1959–1965). Using worldmaking as a conceptual interface, the article offers three interconnected interventions.
Say Jye Quah
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Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Civilian‐led coups are one of the most common routes to losing power in autocracies. How do authoritarian leaders secure themselves from civilian leadership challenges? We argue that autocrats differentiate civilian rivals in part by their social ties to the military.
Tyler Jost, Daniel Mattingly
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Complementarity in alliances: How strategic compatibility and hierarchy promote efficient cooperation in international security

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Abstract How can defense alliances reap the efficiency gains of working together when coordination and opportunism costs are high? Although specializing as part of a collective comes with economic and functional benefits, states must bargain over the distribution of those gains and ensure the costs of collective action are minimized.
J. Andrés Gannon
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The logic of secret alliances

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Abstract Alliances are typically understood as agreements intended to deter aggression from enemy states. By signaling an ally's commitment to a protégé state, a shared enemy may be deterred from attacking. In light of this signaling logic, secret alliances are puzzling.
Peter Bils, Bradley C. Smith
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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Psychological peculiarities of the Soviet past of Ukraine in the representations of modern student youth.

Проблеми сучасної психології, 2017
Contemporary trends in studying memory about the Soviet past in the human sciences are analyzed in this article. The results of a survey of Lviv student youth, which was conducted by the method of a semi-structured indepth interview, are proposed.
L. D. Klymanska, M. B. Klimanska
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The Provisional Government and 1917: The Legitimacy Paradox [PDF]

, 2012
The significance of the Russian revolution has been a hitter ongoing argument for historians and political scientists alike. Couched within that debate is the significance and meaning of I bl 7. For some, the significance of 1917 is based around the rise
Nickols, Aaron
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