EAST EUROPE magazine | EASTERN EUROPE 6-8 / 2012

Eastern Europe 6-8/2012
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (eds.)
Berlin (BWV) 2012 [= Osteuropa 6-8/2012]
560 p., 15 maps, 53 ills.
Price: € 32.00
ISBN: 978-3-8305-3110-4

Contents and abstracts in English

• Marija Lipman
  Double polarizationFull text
  Russia’s divided society
• Vladimir Gel’man
  Cracks in the system
  Russia’s Authoritarianism 2012
• Richard Sakwa
  Anatomy of a blockageFull text
  Standstill in the dual state of Russia

• Values ​​of society

• Lev Gudkov
  Social capital and value orientation
  Modern, premodern and anti-modern in Russia
• Boris Dubin
  End of the lack of alternatives
  Russia’s society in transition
• Hans-Henning Schröder
  A country like any other in Europe …
  Russia and Germany in a comparison of values

• Resources of power

• Benno Ennker
  Putin and his friends
  The elite and the breakpoints of power
• Stephen Fortescue
  (Powerless)?
  Russia’s commodity magnate
• Shamil Yenikeyeff
  Privatization plans, power struggles, instability
  Russia’s oil industry in the Putin crisis
• Joachim Willems
  The Russian Orthodox Church
  Support of power and mirror of society
• Il’ja Kukulin
  Resource Resentment
  Internet subculture and political marketing

• Forms of departure

• Kerstin Holm
  State and fear
  Putin, the Church and the art of fine art
• “Breathe the scent of freedom with us!”
  Plea of ​​the defendant N. Tolokonnikova
  Dokumentation Pussy Riot
• “So that everyone knows what is forbidden”
  A submission to the verdict against Pussy Riot
  documentation
• Dmitry Golynko
  The end of apathy
  Russia’s protest movements
• Elena Panfilova
  The need for transparency
  Russia and the scourge of corruption

• Center and periphery

• Nikolai Petrov
  Federal pendulum
  Center and regions in Russia
• Natalia Zubarevich
  Russia’s parallel worlds
  Dynamic centers, stagnant periphery
• Мichail Blinkin
  Stuck
  Moscow’s traffic – a mirror of society
• Emil Souleimanov
  North Caucasus crisis area
  Anatomy of the Islamist uprising
• Martin Muller
  Think big!
  The major project Soči 2014

• Stagnation and change

• Peter Lindner, Alexander Vorbrugg
  Return of the land question
  Major investments in Russia’s agriculture
• Lily Ovcharova
  Need for reform
  Russia’s pension system
• Christian Mahler, Gianguido Piani
  Energy efficiency in Russia
  Litmus test of modernization
• Fedor Kudrjavcev
  Plan without a plan
  The “Greater Moscow” project

• Inside and outside

• Hannes Adomeit
  Integration competition between the EU and Russia
  Belarus and Ukraine as areas of conflict
• Mark N. Katz
  Partnership with limits
  Russia and Iran
• Kirsten Westphal
  Strategic and reliable?
  Russia as a natural gas supplier
• Roland Götz
  Myths and Facts
  Europe’s gas dependence on Russia
• Evgenia Bakalova, Hans-Joachim Spanger
  Arduous return
  Russia’s engagement in development policy

• Strange and familiar

• Stefan Meister
  Alienated partners
  Germany and Russia
• Gemma Porzgen
  Energy reservoir
  The German political foundations in Russia
• Manfred Sapper
  Decline and new beginning
  The crisis of the German Russia expertise
• Burkhard Bishop
  Ways out of the Russian doldrums
  Different topics, new perspectives

Cards in the booklet