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Imagined Noncommunities: National Indifference as a Category of Analysis by Zahra, Tara

“…Since the birth of mass political movements, European nationalists have lamented the failure of their constituents to respond to the siren song of national…”
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Central Europe as Ground Zero of the New International Order by Wheatley, Natasha

“…This article presents post-Habsburg central and eastern Europe as the flagship campus of the new international order of 1919. It shows how the international…”
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Phantom Borders in Eastern Europe: A New Concept for Regional Research by von Hirschhausen, Béatrice, Grandits, Hannes, Kraft, Claudia, Müller, Dietmar, Serrier, Thomas

“…This paper is programmatic: it defines the concept of “phantom borders” and describes its heuristic potential. The proposed approach positions itself between…”
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The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around “Race” by Böröcz, József, Sarkar, Mahua

“…This contribution interprets the east-central European post-liberal governments’ recent anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-human-rights hysteria in the…”
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Polish Economists in Nehru's India: Making Science for the Third World in an Era of De-Stalinization and Decolonization by Mazurek, Małgorzata

“…Between 1956–68 economic expertise became Poland's key export product in the decolonizing world. India, a broker of social science in the Cold War, became a…”
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Soviet Entrepreneurs in the Late Socialist Shadow Economy: The Case of the Kyrgyz Affair by Heinzen, James

“…Supported by new archival material, this article delves deeply into one landmark criminal case to explore key aspects of the social, economic, and cultural…”
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Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and Potemkin NGOs: Making Sense of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia by Hemment, Julie

“…By interrogating Putin-era civil society projects, this article tracks the aftermath of international development aid in post-Soviet Russian socialist space…”
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Was There a “Simple Soviet” Person? Debating the Politics and Sociology of “Homo Sovieticus” by Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz

“…Intellectual efforts to understand post-Crimean Russian society have brought to prominence explanations that emphasize psychological and attitudinal legacies…”
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Patriotism without Patriots? Perm΄-36 and Patriotic Legitimation in Russia by Goode, J. Paul

“…This article examines the takeover of the Perm’-36 Gulag museum as emblematic of the dynamics of patriotic legitimation in Russia. The museum was dedicated to…”
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Nashi, Youth Voluntarism, and Potemkin NGOs: Making Sense of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Russia by Julie Hemment

“…By interrogating Putin-era civil society projects, this article tracks the aftermath of international development aid in post-Soviet Russian socialist space…”
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Global Populisms and Their Impact by Grzymala-Busse, Anna

“…Populism is on the rise: but to understand this phenomenon, we should first clearly conceptualize it and recognize that populism takes on different forms in…”
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Taking Far-Right Claims Seriously and Literally: Anthropology and the Study of Right-Wing Radicalism by Pasieka, Agnieszka

“…Departing from an overview of current mass media discourse on the far right, this article suggests why and how social scientists could contribute to a better…”
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Black Work, Green Money: Remittances, Ritual, and Domestic Economies in Southern Kyrgyzstan by Reeves, Madeleine

“…Drawing on ethnographic and survey data, Madeleine Reeves explores the meanings and impact of large-scale seasonal labor migration to Russia on a group of four…”
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Ideological Complementarity or Competition? The Kremlin, the Church, and the Monarchist Idea in Today's Russia by Laruelle, Marlene

“…In 2018, Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, was the most popular of all Russian historical figures of the twentieth century; the fame of White officers such as…”
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The Friendship Project: Socialist Internationalism in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s by Applebaum, Rachel

“…This article examines the evolution of socialist internationalism in the 1950s and 1960s through a case study of cultural relations between the Soviet Union…”
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Tashkent ‘68: A Cinematic Contact Zone by Djagalov, Rossen, Salazkina, Masha

“…This essay seeks to reconstruct the history of the first Tashkent Festival of Cinemas of Asia and Africa (1968). It offers an account of the festival as a…”
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Between the Labor Camp and the Clinic: Tema or the Shared Forms of Late Soviet Homosexual Subjectivities by Clech, Arthur

“…Based on interviews with twenty-one women and fifteen men who expressed homosexual desires during the late Soviet period, this article seeks to shed light upon…”
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Pronatalism, Gender Politics, and the Renewal of Family Support in Russia: Toward a Feminist Anthropology of “Maternity Capital” by Rivkin-Fish, Michele

“…This article examines the gendered consequences of linking family support to state pronatalist goals in contemporary Russia. By analyzing the policies,…”
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Between National Tradition and Western Modernization: Soviet Woman and Representations of Socialist Gender Equality as a “Third Way” for Developing Countries, 1956–1964 by Varga-Harris, Christine

“…This article analyzes Soviet Woman, the main publication of the Komitet Sovetskikh Zhenshchin (Committee of Soviet Women), during the 1950s and 1960s…”
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Soviet Legal and Criminological Debates on the Decriminalization of Homosexuality (1965–75) by Alexander, Rustam

“…In the late 1950s and early 1960s, almost three decades after consensual sodomy was declared a crime in the USSR, voices began to speak out in favor of its…”
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