Kyle Marquardt is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen. His research interests include identity politics, separatism, survey research and latent variable modeling, He has conducted research in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Turk...
David Sichinava is a human geographer serving as Adjunct Research Professor for Carleton University’s Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Research Associate at the New York-based Langer Research Associates. He is the former Research Director of the Caucasus Research R...
Alex Dukalskis is an associate professor at University College Dublin and author of Making the World Safe for Dictatorship and The Authoritarian Public Sphere: Legitimation and Autocratic Power in North Korea, Burma, and China, as well as numerous articles on authoritarian states, Asian p...
As Russia, Ukraine, and the West appear to be locked in an escalating conflict, the most commonly asked question is: what does Russia want? To provide some context and analysis of Russia’s part in this crisis, this virtual issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies presents a range of ...
Tamara Pavasović Trošt is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana. Her research employs qualitative and mixed research methods, and she has explored issues including ethnic identity and stereotypes, class, populism, and nationalism and sports. Dr. Trošt received a ...
During the past week, Kazakhstan has seen the rapid spread of demonstrations and violence across the country after protests first emerged in western regions on January 1, 2022 as a result of the sudden rise in the price of gas. Confronting a major challenge to its authority, the country’s...
Margarita Zavadskaya is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Helsinki’s Aleksanteri Institute, and research fellow at the European University at St. Petersburg. She recently joined UC Press’s journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies as Associate Editor, where she focuses on elec...
Lawrence Markowitz is an expert on state building, authoritarianism, and political violence in post-Soviet Eurasia, the author of State Erosion: Unlootable Resources and Unruly Elites in Central Asia and Webs of Corruption: Trafficking and Terrorism in Central Asia. He is Associate Editor...
J. Paul Goode is McMillan Chair in Russian Studies and Associate Professor in Carleton University’s Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Editor-in-Chief of UC Press’s journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies. We recently checked in with Professor Goode on the publi...
J. Paul GoodeEditor-in-Chief, Communist and Post-Communist Studies
In this most challenging of years, Anxiety and Rebellion proved to be an appropriate choice of theme for the 2020 annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Anxiety an...