Лекция посвящена упорядочиванию и соотнесению основных понятий, используемых
исследователями символических аспектов политики, символическая политика …

A close examination of an understudied European Union member state such as Romania
reveals that, since 1989, post-communist state and non-state actors have adopted a wide …

During the Soviet period, political symbolism developed into a coherent narrative that
underpinned Soviet political development. Following the collapse of the Soviet regime and …

Legacies of political violence are long-term changes in social behavior and attitudes, which
are attributable–at least in part–to historical episodes of political conflict and contention …

Public debates and controversies over monuments, memorials, and place names have
become contentious focal points for struggles over historical memory and social identity …

Scholars of nationalism knew about the role of memory and forgetting in nation building long
before the contemporary boom of memory studies. Still, they can learn a lot from this …

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design
and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the …

“Art belongs to the people,” Vladimir Lenin famously pronounced at the outset of the Soviet
period. For generations, Soviet leaders and their constituents alike had a deft sense of art in …

Conflicts over symbolic issues are prominent in public affairs, but do they have wider
political consequences, and if so, why? We study the electoral effects of Leninopad (“Lenin's …

Places are filled with stories, with histories that shape how people understand the nature of
a place. Places are unique sets of trajectories–each with a story–coming into contact …