Crises in the Post‐Soviet Space

Tina Olteanu is a Professor of Political Science at the Department for Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests are democracy and democratization, participation and corruption research mainly in Eastern Europe but also in a European comparative perspective.

This book explains the instability and conflict-prone nature of the Soviet Union's successor states by scrutinizing their post-independence history and linking it to the emergence of overlapping economic, political and military crises.

1 Introduction: Crises in the Post-Soviet Space - From the Dissolution of the Soviet Union to an Area of 'Intersecting Crises Phenomena'? PART I Mapping post-Soviet Crises 2 The dissolution of the Soviet Union and its consequences 3 Divergent Social and Economic Consequences of Transformation in Post-communist States 4 Divergent Political-Economic Trajectories: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus PART II Crises of Belongings 5 Creating the History of the Future: Russian Historical Memory in the Era of the Ukrainian Crisis 6 Ukraine: The Dynamics of Cross-Cutting Cleavages During Quadruple Transition 7 Ethnic Divides in the Baltic States: Political Orientations after the Russian-Ukrainian Crisis 8 'Stability's End: The Political Economy of Russia's Intersecting Crises Since 2009 9 The making of Ukraine's multilevel crisis: transnational capitalism, neoliberal kleptocrats, and dispossession 10 Ukraine's Frozen Transformation. State Capture, Nationalising Policies and Shifting Geopolitics 11 "Decline of the Demos: Latvia, the Face of New Europe and Austerity's Return" PART IV Crises of Political Power 12 Chechnya: A Study of a Post-Soviet Conflict 13 Azerbaijan between Post-Socialist Crisis and Fragile Stability 14 Kazakhstan's political and economic development and the role of the ruling elites Conclusion: The Ukraine conflict as a result of post-Soviet crises development