Postmodernity (Derluguian); Russian “Federalism” (Makarychev, Yatsyk); Pluralism without Democracy (Makarychev); Russia’s Post-Soviet Ideological Terrain (Wengle, Monet, Olimpieva)

(Slavic Review) Contents:

CRITICAL DISCUSSION FORUM: 1968 

Judit Bodnár: Making a Long Story Longer: Eastern Europe and 1968 as a Global Moment, Fifty Years Later

Anna Szemere: Let’s Turn Hegel from His Head onto His Feet: Hopes, Myths, and Memories of the 1960s in Tamás Cseh’s Musical Album “A Letter to My Sister”        

Jacques Rupnik: Utopias and “Normality”: 1968Revisited Fifty Years On

Georgi M. Derluguian: Postmodernity’s Unexpected Arrival: 1968 as Breakdown in Geoculture

Ranabir Samaddar : Occupy College Street: Student Radicalism in Kolkata in the Sixties

MANAGING REGIONAL DIVERSITY

Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk: Russian “Federalism”: Illiberal? Imperial? Exceptionalist?

Julie Wilhelmsen: Inside Russia’s Imperial Relations: The Social Constitution of Putin-Kadyrov Patronage

Miłosz J. Zieliński: Kant’s Future: Debates about the Identity of Kaliningrad Oblast

Andrey Makarychev: Pluralism without Democracy, Vertical without Power: From Gor’kii to Nizhnii Novgorod . . . and Back?

ARTICLES

Darius Staliunas: Affirmative Action in the Western Borderlands of the Late Russian Empire?

Susanne Wengle, Christy Monet, and Evgenia Olimpieva: Russia’s Post-Soviet Ideological Terrain: Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan and Debates on Authority, Agency, and Authenticity