The End of the Soviet World?: Essays on Post-Communist Political and Social Change

This is the fourth volume prepared by the initiators of the Three Ukrainian Revolutions (3R) project ongoing at the College of Europe in Natolin since 2016. The present collection of essays analyses the changes that have taken place in the post-Soviet space since 1991 and which have determined both the process of democratization and the return to authoritarianism in the new republics. Since 2022, researchers gathered around the 3R project have been asked: Had there been no revolutions and mass pro-democratic protest in Ukraine and other post-Soviet states, would there also be no war today? Answers to this and similarly intriguing questions are provided by: Dominique Arel, Marek Cichocki, Kinga Anna Gajda, Alexandra Goujon, Pawel Kowal, Magdalena Lachowicz, Wojciech Michnik, Georges Mink, Justyna Olędzka, Olga Onuch, Iwona Reichardt, Anton Saifullayeu, Kacper Wańczyk, Andrew Wilson, Kateryna Wolczuk, and Oksana Zabuzhko.

Dr. Pawel Kowal is Professor of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Polish parliament’s lower house, the Sejm. Kowal is co-editor of: Three Ukrainian Revolutions: Mobilisation and Change in Contemporary Ukraine, 3 vols. (ibidem 2019-22).

Dr. Georges Mink is Professor of European Civilisation at the College of Europe in Natolin and Director of Research in ISP-CNRS France. Among his recent books is: La Pologne au coeur de l’Europe, de 1914 à nos jours: Histoire politique et conflits de mémoire (Buchet Chastel 2015).

Dr. Iwona Reichardt is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Eastern Europe. She teaches courses on Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. Reichardt is co-editor of: Three Ukrainian Revolutions: Mobilisation and Change in Contemporary Ukraine, 3 vols. (ibidem 2019-22).

The author of the foreword:

Dr. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski is Professor of European Civilisation at the College of Europe in Natolin.