Russian Studies Without Russia

Cohen, Stephen F.

doi:10.1080/1060586x.1999.10641461

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“…17 This is especially visible in Ukraine's case-the best covered of the Color Revolutionswhere a sudden increase in publications and simultaneous decline in reported fieldwork in 2005 stands in contrast to the previous electoral cycle, which featured a roughly equivalent level of publications in 2002 with nearly all reporting fieldwork (see Figure 7). 18 When 14 For example, Tavits's (2008) study of party system fluidity in "new democracies" in Eastern Europe includes Russian parliamentary elections in 1995, 1999, and Ukrainian elections in 1998. Similarly, Birch's (2007 examination of electoral misconduct among postcommunist countries completely avoids regime categories.…”

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Eyes Wide Shut: Democratic Reversals, Scientific Closure, and the Study of Politics in Eurasia*

Goode

2016

Social Science Quarterly

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Objectives The article examines the relationship between democratic reversals and scientific closure. It focuses on the effects that authoritarian and hybrid regimes are likely to have on the ways scholars study them and conduct their fieldwork. Method Thematic content analysis of articles on Eurasian politics published over a 10‐year period, with particular attention paid to reported methods and fieldwork. Results Scientific closure had as much to do with research cycles in the discipline as with democratic reversals. Notions of the region as democratizing persisted into the 2000s as scholars recycled data and conceptual frames from the 1990s. Fieldwork‐driven research was more likely to detect autocratization. Conclusion While disciplinary consensus reframed the region as autocratizing, the field remains vulnerable to scientific closure. Aside from the challenges posed by autocracies for fieldwork, the new disciplinary consensus may deter qualitative fieldwork and innovation in studying authoritarianism in Eurasia.

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“…For a select series of exchanges and contributions, seeSchmitter and Karl (1995),Bunce (1995Bunce ( , 1998,Cohen (1999),,Anderson et al (2001),King (2000),McFaul (2002),Bunce (2003), andHanson (2003).20 For a comparison of Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan after regime change, seeHale (2011).…”

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Eyes Wide Shut: Democratic Reversals, Scientific Closure, and the Study of Politics in Eurasia*

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2016

Social Science Quarterly

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“…Presenting himself as a truer democrat and better friend of the West, he resolutely moved into political space created by Gorbachev's pluralizing reforms. Yel'tsin's self-portrait was subsequently to prove highly misleading, but that is another story (see, for example, Shevtsova, 1999;Huskey, 1999;Glinski and Reddaway, 1998;Cohen, 1999;and Lieven, 1998). The decisive steps in the transition from Communism had been taken by Gorbachev, and he was the sole Westernizer to hold the office of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.…”

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“…Though for a forcefully argued contrary view, seeCohen (1999).11 This includes a useful chapter by Whitehead entitled "Democracy and Decolonization: East-Central Europe," pp. 356-391.…”

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Transnational Influences in the Transition from Communism

Brown¹

2000

Post-Soviet Affairs

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A British political scientist examines a variety of transnational influences on the transition from Communism in Europe. Attention is devoted to Western influences on Eastern Europe, the impact of the West on Soviet decision-makers, the influence of East European countries on each other, and the significance of transformative change in the Soviet Union for the East European transitions. The author explores the relative impact of each factor on different aspects of the transitions.T he transition from Communism, it hardly needs saying, has to be distinguished from transition to democracy. Of the twenty-eight for merly Communist states, fewer than half of them can today be firmly categorized as democratic. 3 Many possess significant democratic elements, including contested elections-a necessary but not sufficient condition for democracy. A number of them are hybrid or mixed polities -a category in which it is reasonable to include Russia (Brown, 1999a;Brown, 1999b;Shevtsova, 1997). Others have made the transition from a distinctively Communist type of post-totalitarian authoritarianism to a different kind of authoritarian regime. The criteria for determining how much democracy

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“…In fact, at the very beginning of the transition, some articles appeared which could lead to the interpretation that there was a severe crisis in Soviet studies (Breslauer 1992, Remington 1992, Schroeder 1995. These articles were complemented with other work that cast doubt on the technical capacity for work related to Soviet studies and their legacy (Cohen 1999, Fish 2001, Haynes and Machold 2002, Gans-Morse 2004, Hanson and Ruble 2005. Other work was published that might also have called into question the ability to evaluate the Soviet economy from the point of view of Western countries, and therefore the reliability of Soviet studies with regard to the scope of its analysis (Becker 1994).…”

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Post-Soviet studies and the transition: the case of the Russian economy

Sánchez-Andrés

García-Testal

2008

Post-Communist Economies

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The disintegration of the Soviet Union meant that an essential object of study for research analysing centralised planning disappeared and the reference point for a lot of work dealing with the comparison of economic systems was lost. It could be assumed that such a structural alteration might lead to reduced interest in Russian studies and a crisis for the scientific community involved. The purpose of this study is to test this idea and to show how the scientific community interested in post-Soviet studies has changed during the transition period.

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Russian Studies Without Russia

Cited by 21 publications

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Eyes Wide Shut: Democratic Reversals, Scientific Closure, and the Study of Politics in Eurasia*

Eyes Wide Shut: Democratic Reversals, Scientific Closure, and the Study of Politics in Eurasia*

Transnational Influences in the Transition from Communism

Post-Soviet studies and the transition: the case of the Russian economy

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