After the Soviet Empire: Legacies and Pathways
In: Annals of the International Institute of Sociology Ser
After the Soviet Empire: Legacies and Pathways -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Keynote Address: The International Institute of Sociology and the Sociology of Empires, Civilizations, and Modernities -- Introduction: Challenges of the Disappearance of the "Second World" -- Part 1: Utility of the Classics -- 1: The Significance of Myrdal for Post-1989 Transformations: His Apocryphal Letters -- 2: On some Observations by Max Weber about Long-Term Structural Features of Russian Policy -- 3: Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Situations. Legitimation of Authority and of Social Change in the Perspective of Classical Sociological Theory: The Cases of Russia and France -- 4: Heidegger within the Boundaries of Mere Reason? "Nihilism" as a Contemporary Critical Narrative -- 5: To Build a Nation: Alva Myrdal and the Role of Family Politics in the Transformation of Sweden in the 1930s -- Part 2: Rethinking the Legacy of the Second World -- 6: Eastern Europe as a Laboratory for Social Sciences -- 7: Decommunisation and Democracy: Transitional Justice in Post-communist Central-Eastern Europe -- 8: The Large Second World and the Necessary Shifts in Research Approaches in Macrosocial Dynamics -- 9: Zig-Zag Post-Soviet Paths to Democracy -- Part 3: The Caucasus: Armenia as a Case Study of the Implosion of the Soviet Empire -- 10: After the Empire: The Migration in the Post-Soviet Space -- 11: The Geography of Nationalism in Nagorno-Karabakh: Post-Soviet Reality as Post-Colonial Reality -- 12: Symbolic Geography: Geography as a Symbol in the Post-Soviet-Soviet South Caucasus -- 13: Playing Democracy: Some Peculiarities of Political Mentality and Behavior in the Post-Soviet Countries -- 14: Globalization and Neo-liberalism: Their Opponents and Their Application to Armenia.