Is there a post-Soviet identity?

general courses

Understanding of social, political and cultural processes in the post-Soviet space. Basic knowledge of theoretical foundations of modern humanities such as Orientalism, post-colonial studies, post-socialist studies, gender studies, feminism theory, deconstruction. Knowledge of Russian at the min. level B2 (B2) is the main criterion for participation in classes. The course of the lecture will be presented in Russian.

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Understanding of socio-political and cultural processes in the post-Soviet space. Basic knowledge of theoretical foundations of modern humanities such as Orientalism, postcolonial studies, post- socialist studies, gender studies, feminist theory, deconstruction. Proficiency in Russian at the minimum B2 (B2) level is the main criterion for participation in the class. The lecture course will be delivered in Russian.

The first block of classes is a methodological introduction, which will help to create a basis for the study of the practical basis of the classes. The second block includes consideration of the most significant phenomena in socio-political consciousness in the post-Soviet space. The third block is a set of the most acute social issues and cultural perceptions of post-Soviet reality. Territorially, the classes cover the countries of the former Soviet Union, which will be considered not only on the basis of regional division (Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia), but also as a complete formation with common processes affecting their self-consciousness and cultural identity. The main goal of the course is to expand knowledge about the post-Soviet region, enable participants of the class to critically evaluate the existing narrative about the post-Soviet region, introduce new methods of analysis from the perspective of subordination and dependency theories and new critical methods of contemporary humanistics.

1. Власть, нации и постколониализм. Теоретическое обоснование понятий.

Bhabha, H. Miejsca kultury, Kraków 2010, s. 79-88.

Spivak, G. C. Czy podporządkowani inni mogą przemówić?, Krytyka Polityczna 24- 25, s. 196-239.

Fanon F., Czarna skóra, białe maski, przeł. Urszula Kropiwiec, Kraków 2020.

Tlostanova, M., Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality, Journal of Postcolonial Writing Volume 48, 2012 - Issue 2: On Colonialism,

Communism and East-Central Europe - some reflections,

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449855.2012.658244?scroll=top&nee

dAccess=true&role=tab

Усманова Альмира, Восточная Европа как новый подчиненый объект, [w:]

Европейская перспектива Беларуси: интеллектуальные модели, red. О. Шпарага,

Вильнюс 2007, s. 105–139.

2. Автократия, тоталитаризм, деспотия. Организация власти и политические системы на

постсоветском пространстве.

Saifullayeu Anton, Nietrasformowalna Europa Wschodnia, „Nowa Europa Wschodnia” 2019, nr 6, s. 44–48.

Guriev, Sergei, and Treisman, Daniel. 2019. “Informational Autocrats.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 33(4): 100–127. doi:10.1257/jep.33.4.100.

Saifullayeu, Rust (2021) Society vs the elite. Belarusian post-Soviet experiences, New Eastern Europe 6: 165-172;

academia.edu/81538621/Society_vs_the_elite_Belarusian_post_Soviet_experiences

Mariya Y. Omelicheva (2016) Authoritarian legitimation: assessing discourses of legitimacy in

Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Central Asian Survey, 35:4, 481-500,

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2016.1245181?src=recsys

3. Расизм и ориентализм в постсоветском контексте.

Said, E. Orientalizm, Poznań 2018 (2005), s. 27-56.

Iarskaia, V.N., My Tongue Is My Enemy Racist Discourse in Russian Society,

Sociological Research Volume 51, 2012 - Issue 6,

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.2753/SOR1061-0154510603?needAccess=true&role=button

M.L. Roman (2002) Making Caucasians Black: Moscow Since the Fall of

Communism and the Racialization of Non-Russians, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 18:2, 1-27,; tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/714003604

Arnold, R. and Karl Manuel Veth, Racism and Russian Football Supporters’ Culture.

A Case for Concern? Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 65, no. 2, 2018, 88–100,

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10758216.2017.1414613?needAccess=true&role=button

Zhussipbek Galym, The Resurrection of Orientalism? The Case of Central Asian

States: Attempt To Explore The Intellectual Background of “Borat” Movie and “Nasha Russia”, https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=62246

Mitrofanova, A. Russian ethnic nationalism and religion today, [in:] THE NEW RUSSIAN NATIONALISM Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism 2000–15, p. 104- 131.

Абашин С. Нации и постколониализм в Центральной Азии двадцать лет спустя: переосмысливая категории анализа/практики // Ab Imperio. 2011, № 3

4. Война и конфликт как образующий фактор постсоветской идентичности.

Couch E. , Russia’s Minorities Don’t Want to Be Putin’s Foot Soldiers A hasty mobilization is sparking fear and resistance,

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/14/russia-minorities-putin-partial-mobilization/

Gwendolyn Sasse (2016) International linkages and the dynamics of conflict: revisiting the post-Soviet conflicts, East European Politics, 32:3, 289-296,,

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21599165.2016.1176560

Maxim Alyukov (2022) Making Sense of the News in an Authoritarian Regime:

Russian Television Viewers’ Reception of the Russia–Ukraine Conflict, Europe-Asia Studies, 74:3, 337-359, DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2021.2016633;

www.tandfonline.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1080%2F09668136.2021.2016633

John Russell (2002) Mujahedeen, Mafia, Madmen: Russian Perceptions of

Chechens During the Wars in Chechnya, 1994-96 and 1999-2001, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 18:1, 73-

96;tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13523270209696369

Pål Kolstø (2021) Authoritarian Diffusion, or the Geopolitics of Self-Interest?

Evidence from Russia’s Patron–Client Relations with Eurasia’s De Facto States, Europe-

Asia Studies, 73:5, 890-912,

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2020.1806209?src=recsys

Russia’s War on Ukraine: Colonial Efforts on Two Fronts,

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/russias-war-ukraine-colonial-efforts-two-fronts-0

5. История на службе политики. Новые/старые нарративы о прошлом в постсоветских

странах.

Saifullayeu, Anton. 2020. Postkolonialne Historiografie. Casus jednego średniowiecza Warsaw: PAN, s. 229-244

Oushakine S. A., (2021) The Colonial Scramble and Its Aftermath: Writing Public Histories of the Postcolonies of Socialism, eSamizdat: a special issue on (Post-)Soviet Experience Through (Post-

)Colonial Lenses. Ed. by Anita Frison and Marco Puleri, XIV: 19-43,

https://www.academia.edu/67622700/The_Colonial_Scramble_and_Its_Aftermath_Writing_Public_Histories_of_the_Postcolonies_of_Socialism

Blakkisrud, Helge, and Kyzy Abdykapar, Nuraida. 2017. “Female Heroes in a Man’s World: The Construction of Female Heroes in Kyrgyzstan’s Symbolic Nation-building.” Demokratizatsiya. The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 25(2): 113-135.

URL:https://muse.jhu.edu/article/657199#info_wrap

6. Феминизм и пол. (Пост)советская женщина в социо- политическом, культурном и экономическом измерении.

Anthias, Floya, and Yuval-Davis, Nira. 1989. “Introduction.” In Women–Nation–State, eds. Yuval-Davis, Nira, and Anthias, Floya. London: Macmillan, 1-15.

Torno, Swetlana. 2017a. “Tajik in Content—Soviet in Form? Reading Tajik Political Discourse on and for Women.” In The Family in Central Asia. New Perspectives, eds. Roche, Sophy. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag GmbH, 168-185.

MARIA MAYERCHYK/OLGA PLAKHOTNIK Between Time of Nation and Feminist Time:

Genealogies of Feminist Protest in Ukraine, [in] Feminist Circulations between East and West,

https://www.academia.edu/41405218/Between_Time_of_Nation_and_Feminist_Time_Genealogies_of_Feminist_Protest_in_Ukraine

Tlostanova Madina, Thapar-Björkert Suruchi, Koobak Redi, the postsocialist ‘missing other’ of transnational feminism?, “Feminist Review”, Issue 121, s. 81– 87.

Oushakine, Serguei. 2012. “Podkovannyy gender [“Gender” – a category for rent].” In Zhenshchiny v politike: novye podkhody k politicheskomu. Feministskiy obrazovatel'noy al'manakh.

Vyp. 1. Pol politiki [Women in Politics: New Approaches to the Political. Vol. 1. Gender of Politics], eds. Ivanov, Evgenii, and Pershai, Aleksandr. Praga: Adliga, 15-31.

7. Постсоветские революции: внешние и внутренние факторы, общественно -политическое значение, культурное влияние.

David Lane (2009) ‘Coloured Revolution’ as a Political Phenomenon, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 25:2-3, 113-135,

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13523270902860295

Shairbek Juraev (2008) Kyrgyz democracy? The Tulip Revolution and beyond, Central Asian

Survey, 27:3-4, 253-264, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634930802536464?src=recsys

Paul Kubicek (2009) Problems of post-post-communism: Ukraine after the Orange Revolution, Democratization, 16:2, 323-343,

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510340902732524?src=recsys

Gabowitsch, M. (2021). Belarusian Protest: Regimes of Engagement and Coordination. Slavic

Review, 80(1), 27-37, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/belarusian-

protest-regimes-of-engagement-and-coordination/603D9B0E78348698AB2E4F6475DFB66B

Volodymyr Kulyk (2016) National Identity in Ukraine: Impact of Euromaidan and the War,

Europe-Asia Studies, 68:4, 588-608, tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2016.1174980 Diana T. Kudaibergenova & Marlene Laruelle (2022) Making sense of the January 2022

protests in Kazakhstan: failing legitimacy, culture of protests, and elite readjustments, Post-Soviet

Affairs, 38:6, 441-459,,tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1060586X.2022.2077060?src=recsys

8. Постсоветские вторичные культуры. От глобального к деколониальному.

Жбанков Максим, No Style. Мусорная культура, версия 2.0, http://

journalby.com/news/no-style-musornaya-kultura-versiya-20-756

Ammon Cheskin & Angela Kachuyevski (2019) The Russian-Speaking Populations

in the Post-Soviet Space: Language, Politics and Identity, Europe-Asia Studies, 71:1, 1-23,

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2018.1529467

9. Новые идентичности.

“Farewell, Nation!” 2020. New Eastern Europe 3: 88-93.

Neda Atanasoski & Kalindi Vora. 2018. “Introduction: Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution.” Social Identities 24 (2): 139-154

Martin Müller (2019) Goodbye, Postsocialism!, Europe-Asia Studies, 71:4,

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09668136.2019.1578337

Ammon Cheskin (2015) Identity and Integration of Russian Speakers in the Baltic States:

A Framework for Analysis, Ethnopolitics, 14:1, 72-93,

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17449057.2014.933051?src=recsys

An essay (7,000-10,000 characters) on one of the topics within a course or oral exam.

An additional criterion for the final grade will be attendance at classes.