"How to make sense of the ideological imagination of the societies born out of the collapse of Soviet ideology, is the central question of this volume of original and highly nuanced articles edited by two of the best scholars of the post-Soviet condition."-Ivan Krastev, Centre for Liberal Strategies
The editors: Dr. Alexander Etkind is Professor of History at the European University Institute at Florence, and taught at King's College Cambridge. He is author of Eros of the Impossible (Westview 1996), Internal Colonization (Polity 2011), Warped Mourning (Stanford UP 2013), Roads not Taken (Pittsburgh UP 2017), and Remembering Katyn (Polity 2012) as well as co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave 2013) and Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (Routledge 2017). Dr. Mikhail Minakov is Senior Advisor at The Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, and taught at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is the author of, amongst other books, Development and Dystopia (ibidem Press 2018), and co-editor of Demodernization (ibidem Press 2018). He edits the Ideology and Politics Journal and the blog Kennan Focus Ukraine.