Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space: Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction.

Bern : Peter Lang, 2020.

Like all empires, the Soviet Empire was also based on the distinction centre–periphery. Although the Soviet Empire no longer exists, relationships between centres and peripheries still shape realities in the region. The book analyses the relevance of this distinction for the understanding of political, economic, and cultural realities in the post-Soviet space. Case studies provided by scholars from different countries of the former Soviet Union explore the potential of the distinction in historical as well as in economic and political perspectives.

 

Chapters

This Is not a Centre: Post-Soviet States in the Quest for Political Values

Kaspe S. I., , in: Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space: Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction.: Bern: Peter Lang, 2020. Ch. 2 P. 43–61.

The notions of “center” and “periphery” do not only pertain to geography, politics, economics, and culture. First and foremost, they are about values. Indeed, the ability to produce values that are meaningful for “others” provides an individual (a group, an institute, or the society) with the characteristic of centrality, while the acceptance of these very ...

Added: August 31, 2020

Introductory Remarks on the Meanings of the Centre-Periphery Distinction in General and in the Post-Soviet Space in Particular

Filippov A. F., Hayoz N., Herlth J., , in: Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space: Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction.: Bern: Peter Lang, 2020. Ch. 1 P. 13–42.

Added: October 14, 2020

Between Centre and Periphery: On Cultural Identity of Neoconservative Writers (Zakhar Prilepin, Vasilii Avchenko and Andrei Rudalev)

Razuvalova A., , in: Centres and Peripheries in the Post-Soviet Space: Relevance and Meanings of a Classical Distinction.: Bern: Peter Lang, 2020. P. 243–263.

In the second half of the 2000s, a group of writers and critics emerged in Russia who not only stressed their interest in a regional dimension of actual cultural and political processes but actively opposed the dominance of liberal metropolitan elites. A main factor consolidated these authors (Z. Prilepin, V. Avchenko, A. Rudalev et al.) into a neoconservative community ...

Added: March 15, 2024

Keywords: values, citizenship, Commonwealth of independent States, centres and peripheries, empire, political centralization, post-Soviet

Publication based on the results of: Between Political theology and cognitive sciences: new alternative options, new chalenges, or new recources for social theory (2020)