Authoritarianism and Ideology
Exploring Eastern Europe

Osteuropa 5-6/2023
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin 2023 [ = Osteuropa, 5–6/2023]
224 pages, 62 figures
Price: 24,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-5571-1

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• GötterdämmerungVolltext
  Editorial
• Alfrun Kliems
  The Frenchman among the Central Europeans
  Milan Kundera (April 1, 1929 – July 11, 2023)
• Lev Gudkov
  The “Leader of the Nation”
  Putin and Collective Consciousness in Russia
• Otto Luchterhandt
  Portent of Doom
  Putin’s Autocracy and Prigozhin’s Uprising
• “This poses a mortal threat to our statehood”
  Televised address by Russian President Vladimir Putin, 24 June 2023
  Documentation
• “Our goal was not to overthrow the regime”
  Audio message by Evgenii Prigozhin, 26 June 2023, 4:42 pm
  Documentation
• Oleg Morozov
  Self-Victimization
  Russia’s War against Ukraine in the Exile Media
• Il’ja Šablinskij
  Authoritarianism and Ideology
  A Comparison of Regimes
• Alexander Libman
  Russian Studies on the Eve of a New Start
  Russia’s War, Isolation, and Consequences
• Aleksandr Zimenko
  Ideological Control and Repression
  Bloodletting in the Belarusian Art Scene
• Kai-Olaf Lang
  “It is also about delegitimising the Third Republic”
  The Polish Special Commission to Investigate Russian Influences
• Marta Bucholc, Maciej Komornik
  “This Is Legal Nihilism in Action”
  Background and Consequences of the “Lex Tusk”

• The Contemporary Past

• Bert Hoppe
  Ukraine in the Age of Mass Violence
  Terror and Occupation 1930–1947
• Pavel Polian
  “We Mustn’t Lose This War …"
  Babyn Yar’s Killers on Trial
• Magdalena Semczyszyn, Łukasz Adamski
  Khrushchev as National Communist
  The General Secretary and the Ukrainian question