After the Soviet Empire ― Legacies and Pathways

The break-up of the Soviet Union is a key event of the twentieth century. The 39th IIS congress in Yerevan 2009 focused on causes and consequences of this event and on shifts in the world order that followed in its wake. This volume is an effort to chart these developments in empirical and conceptual terms.

Sven Eliaeson is Senior Research Fellow at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University. He is a recurrent Visiting Professor at the Centre for Social Studies of the the Graduate School for Social Research (GSSR), Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. He has written widely in the fields of intellectual history, social theory and Max Weber-studies, including the monographMax Weber’s Methodologies (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002). He has also edited several volumes on Eastern Europe.Lyudmila Harutyunyan is Professor of Sociology at Yerevan State University. She has written extensively on social rights and social protection. She has been a member of the European Committee of Social Rights and a consultant to UNDP, UNHCR and UNESCO. She is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications most of which deal with developments in the former Soviet Union. She has played an important role as a public intellectual in Armenia and Russia. In 1989 she was elected to the Congress of People’s Deputies of the USSR. Larissa G. Titarenko is Professor of Sociology at the Belarusian State University, Minsk. She has published more than 300 articles in eight languages as well as eight monographs and several edited volumes. Her research interests include transformations of post-communist societies, studies of value orientations and the sociology of culture, youth and gender. Among her most recent publication isDynamics of Value-norm Systems and Life Chances: Experiences of Post-soviet transformations in the Borderland (Vilnius: European Humanitarian University Press, 2014 (in Russian, co-author)).