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Europe-Asia Studies

@europe-asia.bsky.social

Since 1949, the principal academic journal in the world focusing on history + current political-social-economic affairs in Russia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia.

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Claudia Eggart@ceggart.bsky.social · 2y ago

Grateful to the Jordan Center in NYC for featuring a summary of my 2023 article, published in @europe-asia.bsky.social, called ‘They Called Us Spekulyanty’: Shame and Pride in the Biographies of Female Shuttle Traders in Post-Soviet Russia on their exciting and vibrant blog section shorturl.at/h9Q1V

Unpacking Emotions in Post-Soviet Russia: The Role of Shame and Pride in Socioeconomic Transformation

The stories of shuttle traders or chelnoki offer a vibrant, intimate glimpse into the personal and societal upheavals of the early post-Soviet 1990s.

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Europe-Asia Studies@europe-asia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now online. Hydro-Authoritarianism: Mega-Engineering the (Semi-)Arid Regions of Central Eurasia and China, by Max Spoor & Louis Thiemann: doi.org/10.1080/0966...

Hydro-Authoritarianism: Mega-Engineering the (Semi-)Arid Regions of Central Eurasia and China

This article analyses how authoritarian governments respond to freshwater scarcity. It explores the link between mega-hydroengineering works and authoritarian governance structures, introducing the...

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Europe-Asia Studies@europe-asia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now online. When Children Join the Coalition: Apparent Hereditary Grooming as a Power-Preservation Tool in Post-Soviet Autocracies, by Jakob Tolstrup & Thomas Ambrosio: doi.org/10.1080/0966...

When Children Join the Coalition: Apparent Hereditary Grooming as a Power-Preservation Tool in Post-Soviet Autocracies

Why does what appears to be hereditary grooming—promoting children to positions of political power—remain widespread in dictatorships even though successful hereditary successions are relatively ra...

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