BORDERS IN RED Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union
Stephan Rindlisbacher Borders in Red shows how Lenin and his Bolshevik leadership embraced the nationality question as a way of managing diversity and institutionalized it as a means of governance. Stephan Rindlisbacher uses the making of national borders as a lens through which to examine the Bolsheviks’ fundamental shift from proletarian internationalism to ethnonational federalism sui generis. Comparing how party and state...
The Unpredictable Past? Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Marko Robert Stech The launch of an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022 was a jolting turn of events for the majority of Western scholars studying Eastern Europe. Moreover, the dramatic unfolding of the subsequent all-out Russo-Ukrainian war helped unmask an array of fundamental deficiencies—and even outright flaws—in the dominant Western perceptions of Russia and...
