Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new...

This book is a tribute to the memory of Victor Zaslavsky (1937–2009), sociologist, émigré from the Soviet Union, Canadian citizen, public intellectual, and keen observer of Eastern Europe.In seventeen essaysleading European, American and Russian scholars discuss the theory and the history of totalitarian society with a comparative approach. They revisit and reassess what Zaslavsky considered...

An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness becomes apparent today: broken time lines and fragmented spaces. Messiness is framed by a blurring of the world orderings inherited from modernity. Against the backdrop of rapid...

This book examines film and media representations of the social, political, and economic issue of human trafficking, one of the most dramatic challenges of today’s globalized world. Hashamova productively combines fieldwork in NGOs in southeastern Europe, social science data, and the analysis of Western and East European anti-trafficking films and media and their reception in the United States...

New Adversaries and New Opportunities. This volume aims to inspire students, researchers and citizens around the world to critically engage with Open Society values and to defend them wherever they are at risk.

The author offers his views and analysis of the revolutionary movements in the modern world (Syria, Iraq, Libya, Africa, Europe, etc.).

This book discusses the history of the concept of an 'Aryan community' and describes the process of constructing an Aryan identity, as well as the persistence of the Aryan myth across both temporal and geopolitical dimensions. It addresses, for the first time, the evolution of the Aryan myth in Russia and its resurgence in the post-Soviet space. The study traces the formation and development of...

The themes that unite these diverse texts are the clash of cultures, the conflict between one's own and another's, and art through the eyes of a cultural scholar. The author's ability to write humorously about the serious and seriously about the humorous is evident in both the autobiographical and, relatively speaking, historical and cultural sections of the collection, making each text a...

The well-known historian Sergey Semanov, author of dozens of books, traces the history of Russian-Jewish relations in Russia, and also writes about the role of Russia's political parties in the spiritual revival of the Fatherland. Do Russians actually love themselves, do they value their own Russian world, created by the centuries, and do they value their national ways and traditions?...

Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov wrote their report ‘Luzhkov: The Results’ at the end of 2009. Luzhkov and his wife, billionaire developer Elena Baturina, sued Nemtsov over it, but they failed to refute most of the facts presented by the ‘perpetually dissenting’ opposition figure. And when Yuri Luzhkov began to obviously irritate President Medvedev – especially after the mayor refused to...

Guerrilla Warfare (Spanish: La Guerra de Guerrillas) is a military handbook written by Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara following the Cuban Revolution. It became a reference for thousands of guerrilla fighters in various countries around the world. The book draws upon Guevara's personal experience as a guerrilla soldier during the Cuban Revolution. The book identifies reasons for,...