Diogenes articles from June 2002

Diogenes archives from June 2002

Introduction.
June 22, 2002... Scholars from different disciplines are seeking to construct the new field of post-communism, which has been created by the implosion of the communist regime. They explore the most important dimensions of the differences between various types...

Conceptualising the reconstruction of identities in the postcommunist countries.
June 22, 2002... In this article I propose to explore the meanings, mechanisms and issues at stake in the reconstitution of identities which can now be seen taking place in the countries of the post-communist space. We shall consider this space not as a thing...

Emblem of minority, substitute for sovereignty: the case of Buryatia.
June 22, 2002... For many peoples the fall of the Soviet regime saw the disappearance of a structure that had ensured their membership of entities with which they had in fact been only partially able to identify. This is true of the Buryats and Russians...

Stalin and the Blue Elephant: paranoia and complicity in postcommunist metahistories.
June 22, 2002... This paper analyses certain contemporary narratives among Buryats of Russia and China. At issue is the nature of responsibility for the campaigns of terror, in particular the devastation of the Buddhist church in the 1930s. In these accounts...

Overview of the feminist movement in contemporary Russia (1).
June 22, 2002... Feminist groups in Russia are rather recent initiatives. Most of them were organized in the very end of the cycle of mass protest mobilization in the end of 1989 -- beginning of 1990s. 1990 is a starting point for Russian feminism. Moscow is...

History teaching in Romania.
June 22, 2002... Relationships to time through memory or projection form a particular axis along which the post-communist space reshapes, constructs and understands its identity. Caught between a public rejection of the communist past and a need for roots in...

Reconstructing regional relationships, or the new bases for rebuilding spheres of influence.
June 22, 2002... The other spaces of postcommunism, outside the countries of the ex-USSR and Eastern Europe It is understandable that, since the fall of the Berlin wall, researchers interested in the social and political upheavals brought about by this...

Collective images of the West in postcommunist countries and the process of enlargement of community space.
June 22, 2002... On fascination and resistance The fall of the Communist regimes in the countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and their commitment to social, political and economic reform, represent two aspects of a deep process of social...

In favour of an urban policy in Russia.
June 22, 2002... Among the most important problems related to Russia's development, which are considered in depth in various kinds of forum and the media, both here and in the west, there is, however, an almost total absence of such a crucial strategic topic...

Moscow chill and Shanghai frenzy: two false exits from the communist urban order.
June 22, 2002... On paper, the Russians left Communism behind at a single stroke of the pen. (1) But within their walls and inside their heads the great majority of them remain material and mental prisoners of the Soviet period, whose tattered remnants still...

Communism: between ideological gift and the gift in everyday life.
June 22, 2002... This attempt to interpret Communist society through the total social fact of the gift takes up Mauss's strategy, which attempted to explain social reproduction without written laws or state institutions. It was a culture of chronic revolution...

The Russian financial crisis as it points up the failures of liberalization.
June 22, 2002... The Russian financial crisis of August 1998, which occurred between the Asian recession and the devaluation of the Brazilian real in January 1999, put a question-mark over many certainties. It demonstrated that the most destructive...

The Russian financial system's unsteady transition.
June 22, 2002... The financial crisis that began on 17 August 1998 confirmed any fears that we might have had as to the robustness of the Russian banking system and more generally its financial system. It also pointed up the organic link between the...

Democracy and capitalism the role of the former elites in postcommunist transformation.
June 22, 2002... Although, in one respect, the role of popular movements in the collapse of the Soviet system was clear and fundamental, nevertheless that played by the former Communist elites was equally important. What do we mean by the `former elites'?...

Ecology and the deep forces of perestroika.
June 22, 2002... An oasis of authorized criticism in the 1960s and the 1970s, and a privileged public arena for `extreme non-conformist' intellectuals in the same period, ecology was also the matrix for the national movements which precipitated the end of the...

A `green' referendum in Russia? Contribution to the study of the birth of a civil society.
June 22, 2002... On 12 June 2000, the tenth anniversary of Boris Yeltsin's election as head of the reconstituted Russian state, 180 people who had formed an `initiative group for a pan-Russian referendum' launched a campaign to collect the two million...