The Return to War and Violence: Case Studies on the USSR, Russia, and Yugoslavia, 1979-2014

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Jan Claas Behrends (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

The Return to War and Violence

Case Studies on the USSR, Russia, and Yugoslavia, 1979-2014

Jan Claas Behrends (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)

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Routledge
10 January 2017

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Military history; Violence in society; Political science & theory

Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

This volume includes five case studies on war and the military in the USSR, Russia and Yugoslavia. It argues that the armed forces were at the core of socialist statehood and that their role and their change in late socialism and post-Communism are thus far understudied. Discussing the similarities as well as the differences between the Soviet, the Russian, and the Yugoslav case, the introduction seeks new explanations for war and military violence in these countries. Rather than pointing exclusively to ethnic mobilization and nationalism, it views the transformation and collapse of the Communist party-state and its army as a precondition for violence and civil war. It places these cases using innovative methodological approaches to the research on physical violence, war, and military. These studies explore the experience and the representation of violence, army service, combat, and war in late socialism and scrutinize individual actors and their behaviour within violent spaces. In retrospect the emerging wars in the post-Soviet space – from Chechnya to the Donbas – and in Yugoslavia are at least as crucial for the region as Gorbachev's reforms. They help to better understand the conflicts of the present in the post-Soviet space. This book was originally published as a special issue of Nationalities Papers.

Edited by: Jan Claas Behrends (Humboldt University Berlin Germany)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781138648548
ISBN 10: 113864854X
Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities
Pages: 106
Publication Date: 10 January 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Jan C. Behrends is a research fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. He teaches East European history at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. His areas of interested include modern dictatorships, urban studies and physical violence. His recent publications include ""Races to Modernity: Metropolitan Aspirations in Eastern Europe, 1890-1940"" (2014) and ""Underground Publishing and the Public Sphere: Transnational Perspectives"" (2014)."