The U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment’s Perception of Poland (1980-1981)
With the declassification of secret material after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, scholars are able to determine how accurate were the perceptions…
The Paradox of Solidarity from a Thirty Years Perspective
After thirty years since it first came to existence, the Solidarity movement is not only a recognized symbol of the Cold War’s end, but it is also…
Soviet Attitudes Towards Poland’s Solidarity Movement
Nowadays, the Polish Solidarity movement of the 1980s is often considered to be the first step in the downfall of the Soviet empire. Solidarity was not only…
After the Cold War: U.S.-Ukrainian Relations (1991-2000)
Introduction This article is to examine the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Ukraine at the end of the Cold War. During this period, the U.S. was…
The Polish Perspective of American Foreign Policy: Selected Moments from the Cold War Era
Introduction Bipolarity in international relations was the main characteristic of the Cold War Era. The world was divided between two opposing political, economic and military blocs. The…
Soviet Perspective On The Cold War And American Foreign Policy
Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, when the Soviet Union was dissolved and former Soviet republics became sovereign states. Since that time Ukraine started its own policy,…
Judging Communism and All Its Works: Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago Reconsidered
Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble—and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s villains stopped short…
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Overcoming Personal, Political, and Historical Amnesia Through Literary-Aesthetic Anamnesis
As late as Nov 29, 1988, well into the Gorbachev period of "glasnost," Suslov’s successor and top party ideologist, Vadim Medvedev "confirmed Solzhenitsyn would remain on the…
Modernity Reconsidered: Multiple Modernities, Universal History and the Quest for a Civilizational Paradigm
In view of an unfolding global modernity, Voegelin proposed “the empirical thesis that the philosophical investigation of the realm of phenomena has always drawn its dynamism from…
The Special Relationship: United States-Russia
A special relationship between the United States and Russia existed during the period 2001–2002, after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. However, this…
What Numbers Can and Cannot Tell Us about Russian Politics
New Trends in Russian Political Mentality: Putin 3.0. Elena Shestopal, ed. Lanham, Lexington Books, 2015. Quantitative measures of political phenomena can be enormously appealing. They seem…
The Political Science Reviewer
The Political Science Reviewer is a beacon in the often-murky world of professional political science journals. Unencumbered by any of the reigning orthodoxies, the PSR welcomes the evidence of empirical study,…
Russia’s Lost Reformation
Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917. Sergei I. Zhuk. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2004. Suppressed by…
Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies
Religion, Morality, and Community in Post-Soviet Societies. Mark D. Steinberg and Catherine Wanner, ed. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2008. Since the collapse of the…
Nationalism and Religion in Post-Soviet Russian Civil Society: An Inquiry into the 1997 Law “On Freedom of Conscience”
What will be the contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church to the creation of a civil society in post-Soviet Russia? Much depends on whether the Russian Orthodox…