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Felix Riefer, Julie Fedor, Leonid Luks, Andreas Umland (eds.), Russia Before the Full-Scale War. Vol. I: Elites, Institutions, and Society, 1991–2021. ibidem-Verlag, 2025

Contents

Introduction: The Volume’s Background and Outline
Felix Riefer ............................................................................................... 7

I The Soviet Pre-History

She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named: A Note about the Soviet
Dissident Bacronym “Sof’ia Vlas’evna”
Natalia Samover ..................................................................................... 17

Mikhail Putin (1894–1969) and Socialist Competition: Exploring
a Neglected Branch of the Putin Family Tree
Chris Monday......................................................................................... 39

Soviet Bureaucracy as a Category Coining Machine: Ethnicity,
Ethnography, and the “Primordial Trap”
Simon Schlegel ..................................................................................... 101

Another Life of the Soviet Intelligentsia: The Subconscious of
Neo-Russian Liberalism
Konstantin Kaminskij .......................................................................... 125

II The Post-Soviet Path

“Weimar Russia?” Notes on a Controversial Concept
Leonid Luks .......................................................................................... 153

Why Russia’s Democracy Never Began
Maria Snegovaya .................................................................................. 175

Institutional Legacies and Systemic Transformation in Eastern
Europe: Ukraine, Russia, and the European Union
Alexander J. Motyl ............................................................................... 193

Think Tanks and the Design of Foreign Policy in the Russian
Federation
Felix Riefer ........................................................................................... 213

The Return to Patriotic Education in Post-Soviet Russia: How,
When, and Why the Russian Military Engaged in Civilian
Nation Building
Håvard Bækken .................................................................................... 247

Filtering Foreign Media Content: How Russian News Agencies
Repurpose Western News Reporting
Rolf Fredheim ....................................................................................... 283

“I’m a Feminist, Therefore…”: The Art of Gender and Sexual
Dissent in 2010s Ukraine and Russia
Olenka Dmytryk ................................................................................... 327

About the Editors and Contributors ............................................... 367

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https://cup.columbia.edu/book/russia-before-the-full-scale-war-vol-i/9783838219356/

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