The myth of the civic state: a critical survey of Hans Kohn's framework for understanding nationalism
- Taras Kuzio
- Sociology
- 1 January 2002
Hans Kohn's definition of a more "liberal, civic Western" and "illiberal, ethnic Eastern" nationalism has been highly influential in providing a framework for our understanding of different types of…
Transition in Post-Communist States: Triple or Quadruple?
- Taras Kuzio
- Political Science
- 1 September 2001
When the study of transitions moved from Latin America and southern Europe scholars initially assumed that transition in these two regions would be regime-based ‘double transitions’ of…
Red Famine. Stalin’s War on Ukraine
- Taras Kuzio
- HistoryEuropean Studies
- 14 September 2018
During the horrific famine of 1932–3, did Ukrainian peasants die because they were Ukrainians or because they were peasants? This blunt question is at the heart of scholarly debate on the famine:…
Identity and Nation-Building in Ukraine
- Taras Kuzio
- Sociology
- 1 September 2001
National identity is forged and defined through a dual process of stressing the similarities of the in-group (the ‘Self’) and its differences with those outside the political community (the…
History, memory and nation building in the post-Soviet colonial space
- Taras Kuzio
- History, SociologyNationalities Papers
- 1 June 2002
The disintegration of the Soviet Union in December 1991 led to the de-colonization of the world's last remaining empire. Taking this into account, this article seeks to argue two points. Firstly,…
Twenty years as an independent state: Ukraine’s ten logical inconsistencies
- Taras Kuzio
- Political Science
- 1 September 2012
Sultanism in Eastern Europe: The Socio-Political Roots of Authoritarian Populism in Belarus
- Steven M. Eke, Taras Kuzio
- Political Science
- 1 May 2000
experiencing severe political and economic difficulties in the process of systemic transformation. Gibson identifies the key dangers to the 'new democracies' as '... the authoritarian propensities of…
Ukraine: State and Nation Building
- Taras Kuzio
- Sociology
- 29 May 1998
Ukraine: State and Nation Building explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state and examines the new elites and their role in the state building process, as well as other…
Democratic Breakthroughs and Revolutions in Five Postcommunist Countries: Comparative Perspectives on the Fourth Wave
- Taras Kuzio
- Political Science, Sociology
- 2008
The democratic breakthroughs and revolutions of 1998-2004 for Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine constituted a second phase of their transformation as postcommunist states. All five…
Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism
- Taras Kuzio
- Business
- 23 June 2015
A definitive contemporary political, economic, and cultural history from a leading international expert, this is the first single-volume work to survey and analyze Soviet and post-Soviet Ukrainian…
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