Eastern European Communism and Reforms

A novel socio-cognitive theory of dissociation and dissociative disorders is proposed. The model, which is both theoretical and clinical, is based on "functional dissociation of the self." A new concept is introduced in this paper: the sociological self. While the sociological self may have cultural and societal dimen…

This book reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe's most important multiethnic borderland cities into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Today, Lviv is the modern metropole of the western part of independent Ukraine and a center and symbol…

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• ŞUAY NİLHAN AÇIKALIN

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• BEYZA ALTAY

In ‘68, Czechoslovakia’s attempt at widespread political reform, which became known as the “Prague Spring,” attracted worldwide attention. Under the leadership of Alexander Dubcek, who famously described the movement’s aim as “socialism with a human face,” the regime allowed a level of freedom (including a virtual end…

Different but the Same or the Same but Different? Public Memory of the Second World War in Post-Soviet Lviv This article addresses the changes of post-Soviet culture of memory of the Second World War in the western Ukrainian city and regional centre of Lviv. Attempts to forge a heroic and innocent memory of Ukrainian…

From 1934, ethnicity in the internal passport was a key feature of the USSR's ethnicity regime. Following Stalin's death, all attempts to abolish ethnicity from the Soviet internal passport failed. This article examines the removal of ethnicity from the internal passport in the post-Soviet period as a key indicator of…

• ŞENER AKTÜRK

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The communist-era secret police archives have a peculiar afterlife in postsocialist Eastern Europe. On the one hand, those archives have become the site to articulate different visions of justice and social transformation and harboured the modernist promise of transparency, and, on the other, the secret police archive…

• SAYGUN GÖKARIKSEL

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the accusations of 'collaboration' with the communist-era secret service in Poland's capitalist democracy. Situated in the global context of the 1989 'revolutions,' it examines the role of law in redrawing the moral and political boundaries of the new body politic and rede…

The last two years have witnessed an unexpected series of events unfolding in the Arab World leading us to make comparisons with the fall of Communism in 1989. Developments in the Middle East and North Africa made headway at a rapid pace. The overthrow of governments in Tunisia and Egypt, the civil war in Libya and th…

Blood of Others has the same title as a novel by Simone de Beauvoir. The intertextuality does not end there. As de Beauvoir explores the collective guilt and personal responsibility in a story play...

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