From The Ideology and Politics Journal, a special issue on the post-Soviet order between tradition and modernity. Ivan Szelenyi (Yale): Pathways from and Crises after Communism: The Case of Central Eastern Europe, and The Case of Former USSR and China. Alexi Gugushvili (Oxford): Self-interest, Perceptions of Transition and Welfare Preferences in the New Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. Katerina Kolozova (ISSHS): The Uses and Abuses of Neoliberalism and Technocracy in the Post-totalitarian Regimes in Eastern Europe. Marissa Wyant (South Florida): The Political Economy of Transnistria: How the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union Could Contribute to Conflict Resolution. Andrew Curry on building a new Silicon Valley in a post-Soviet dictatorship. Mikhail Gorbachev: I should have abandoned the Communist party earlier. Incommensurate Russia: Perry Anderson on the spectre of Great Power status that still informs the post-multinational nation — and why, despite all the Kremlin’s attempts at integration with the US–EU, the country remains indigestible.
