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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Russia, the West, and BRICS -- 1 Status Quo Revisionism: Post-Soviet Russia and the International System -- 2 From BRIC to BRICS: An Institutional History -- 3 Laying the Rhetorical Foundation for BRICS: The Evolution of the Concepts of Sovereignty and National Identity, 2000-2007 -- 4 Potemkin Villages and Rhetorical Bridges: BRICS in Russian Policy, 2008-13 -- 5 From Bridge to Bulwark (and Back Again): Russia and BRICS after the Onset of the Ukraine Crisis -- 6 BRICS from Other Perspectives: The Views from India and China -- Conclusion: Russia and BRICS in an Age of Strategic Uncertainty -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- About the Author

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus -- From Memory Wars to Real Wars -- A Region of Memory? Beyond National Memories in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine -- Russia -- Ukraine -- Belarus -- Outline of the Book -- Coda: From Communicative to Cultural Memory -- References -- Part I Memories of World War II and Nation-Building -- Chapter 2 Political Uses of the Great Patriotic War in Post-Soviet Russia from Yeltsin to Putin -- The Yeltsin Era: Abandoning the Soviet Past, Searching for a New Consensus -- The Putin Era: The Great Patriotic War as a Myth of National Triumph -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 "Unhappy Is the Person Who Has No Motherland": National Ideology and History Writing in Lukashenka's Belarus -- Introduction -- Background -- Rival Traditions of Statehood -- The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR) -- The Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR) -- Rival Narratives -- Official Historiography -- The Great Victory -- An Alternative Historical Culture -- Rival Sets of State Symbols -- The Cult of State Symbols -- Rewarding Patriotic Virtue -- Appropriating the Oppositional Historical Narrative -- Omissions and Blank Spots -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Reclaiming the Past, Confronting the Past: OUN-UPA Memory Politics and Nation Building in Ukraine (1991-2016) -- Competing Myths: The "Great Patriotic War" vs Ukrainian "National Liberation" -- "Reclaiming the Past" Vs "Coming to Terms with the Past" -- Filling in the "Blank Spots" of History Under Gorbachev and Beyond -- The Kuchma Presidency: A Decade of Ambivalence -- Memory at War: The Past Enters Ukrainian Electoral Politics -- Controversy Over Normalization of the OUN-UPA Memory -- Euromaidan and Beyond

Clifford Gaddy's and Barry Ickes' paradigm of the "virtual economy" has fundamentally changed the way people think about Russia's economy. Circulated at the highest levels of the Russian and U.S. governments and reported in leading publications worldwide, their thesis--that Russia's economy is based on illusion or pretense about nearly every important economic yardstick, including prices, sales, wages and budgets--has forced broad recognition of the inadequacies of the intended market reform policies in Russia. More important, their work has provided a coherent framework for understanding how and why so much of Russia's economy has resisted reform. Gaddy and Ickes now use the virtual economy concept to project the near- and middle-term future of the Russian economy and suggest possible policy responses. Drawing on new empirical material from published and unpublished sources and from their own extensive field work in Russia, the authors examine critical aspects of the virtual economy: manufacturing enterprises, households and the public sectors, both local and federal. For the first time, they will also integrate the financial and agricultural sectors into their model. Gaddy's and Ickes' book can be expected to be a seminal work for understanding the inner workings of the Russian economy. Clifford G. Gaddy is a fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and a member of Brookings' Center on Social and Economic Dynamics. He is the author of The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy (Brookings, 1996) and coauthor of Open for Business: Russia's Return to the Global Economy(Brookings, 1992). Barry W. Ickes is associate professor of economics at Pennsylvania State University and director of research at the New Economic School, Moscow.

Papers presented at the conference on 'Globalisation and Identity', held at Moscow during 9-10 July 2012

In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This 2007 book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular press, to examine the forms, meanings, and regulation of suicide from the seventeenth century to 1914, placing developments into a pan-European context. It argues against narratives of secularization that read the history of suicide as a trajectory from sin to insanity, crime to social problem, and instead focuses upon the cultural politics of self-destruction. Suicide - the act, the body, the socio-medical problem - became the site on which diverse authorities were established and contested, not just the priest or the doctor but also the sovereign, the public, and the individual. This panoramic history of modern Russia, told through the prism of suicide, rethinks the interaction between cultural forms, individual agency, and systems of governance