Russia, the Former Soviet Republics, and Europe Since 1989: Transformation and Tragedy

This book explores what the concept of "being European" means to people in Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union. Katherine Graney provides a panoramic and historically rooted overview of politics in the post-Soviet world, focusing in particular on how Europe¿as both real place and symbol¿has structured the political trajectory of this vast region. In sum, Graney provides both a theoretical discussion of contemporary Europeanness, and an empiricalexamination of how Russia and each of the fourteen former Soviet states are actually attempting to "be European," or not.