Introduction: Transition to Where? Developing Post-Soviet Space

Learning to Use ‘Public Space’: Urban Space in Post-Soviet St. Petersburg

The article discusses the post-socialist developments of urban public space in St. Petersburg, Russia. The city with a historic center protected by the UNESCO World Heritage status in combination with the Soviet legacy of lack of public participation is facing the problem of public space development. There are two controversial concepts of urban space represented in the public discourse that ar...

Ex ante and ex post institutional convergence: Case of the post-Soviet space

The paper discusses the interaction of ex ante and ex post institutional convergence in the post-Soviet world, i.e. 12 members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It starts with analysing empirical evidence for institutional convergence in the CIS, and then considers two channels of convergence: institutional competition for mobile capital and ex ante harmonization via interaction in pol...

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Introduction to Transition

The demise of communism in Central and Eastern Europe ushered in a new phenomenon in economics, transition. This is an unprecedented process as no economy has ever moved from a comprehensively controlled economy to a market economy, although many have traversed the reverse path. It is rather easy to get a general idea of what this was to involve – privatize, create a functioning legal system, l...

The Soviet anti-plague system: an introduction.

This article describes the composition of the Soviet Anti-plague (AP) system and presents the methodology used by the authors in their study of the AP system.