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Abkhazia: Patronage and Power in the Stalin Era
Abkhazia during the Stalin era was at the same time a subtropical haven where the great leader and his lieutenants built grand dachas and took extended holidays away from Moscow, and also a key piece in the continuing chess match of Soviet politics. This paper will examine how and why this small, sunny autonomous republic on the Black Sea, and the political networks that developed there, played a prominent role in the politics of the south Caucasus region and in Soviet politics as a whole during the Stalin period.
Journal Article
THE RISE AND FALL OF SOVOK
When it came to catchiness, the word sovok had every advantage. First, it involved the repurposing of an already existing word (dustpan). Second, it phonetically resembles the object of derision (the Soviet). Third, and most important, it circulated the same way as the best critical or anti-Soviet cultural phenomena did during Soviet times, as folklore. “Homosos” was the product of a single author, whose tendentious work could not have been all that widely available as samizdat and who, in any case, has neither the moral urgency of Solzhenitsyn nor the inspired whimsy of Vladimir Voinovich (falling uncomfortably, and unproductively, somewhere
Book Chapter
Ukraine's Ancient Hatreds
Russian Pres Vladimir Putin is quite clear about what version of history he adheres to -- and this vision is guiding his policies on Ukraine. Because of Putin's willingness to abandon far-flung Soviet Cold War outposts and to facilitate the introduction of US military forces into Central Asia after 9/11, some in Washington assumed that Putin was no longer interested in treating former Soviet republics as geopolitical chess pieces and might even be convinced that fostering closer ties between the non-Russian Eurasian states and the West would be beneficial for Russia. This illusion was quickly dispelled when the warming US-Russian relationship during the first presidential terms of both US Pres George W. Bush and Putin ran aground on the shoals of the so-called Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004. The Orange Revolution, seen in the West as a triumph of \"people power\" was viewed in Moscow as a direct and possibly mortal challenge to Russia's position in the post-Soviet space.
Magazine Article