East European Societies Research Articles

Introduction: Wartime Suffering and Survival

This roundtable reviews Jeffrey Hass’ Wartime Suffering and Survival, an in-depth historical ethnography of the Blockade of Leningrad. Reviewers address various empirical, thematic, and theoretical facets of the book and raise questions regarding each of these topics. Important issues include the nature of explanation in the humanities (especially history) and the social sciences (in this case, sociology); the role and form of power in such circumstances; and the nature of the Blockade itself as historical event. Reviews from the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, the Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Societies, and European University at St. Petersburg provide further insight into the book and reflections on the Blockade. It is an important contribution to the understanding of human resilience in the face of great suffering, and its implications for history, politics, and society. It explores questions such as what happened to political identities, institutions, authority, and cultural tropes when survival was at stake, and if there is a homo sovieticus that responds to trauma and survival differently than a person elsewhere in human history. This roundtable seeks to provoke further rethinking of the Blockade, of the Soviet experience of war, of the nature of survival and human resilience, and of the nature of explanation.

East European Politics and Societies’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

<i>East European Politics and Societies</i>’ Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery

European accounts of home gardening or food self-provisioning (FSP) typically frame these practices as primarily economically motivated and need related, and community gardening or urban agriculture as ethical sustainability strategies. Drawing on primary research on FSP in two East European countries, this paper combines analysis of socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics of food self-provisioners with analysis of their motivations. There is strong evidence that while economic reasons are present FSP is primarily motivated, even in comparatively less affluent East European societies, by the desire to obtain fresh and healthy food and engage in a pleasurable activity. Based on our findings, we thus propose that a more appropriate framing for FSP in the European East and West alike is characterised by autonomy and community care. This would provide for a reengagement with the epistemology of sustainability-compliant behaviours and attitudes beyond the joy vs. limitations dichotomy. Given the performativity of social scientific research, rooting the framing on knowledge from East European societies, where FSP is widespread in all social groups, including the affluent middle class, is important for lending credence to alternative visions and practices that can enhance the sustainability of overdeveloped societies.

Bourdieu’s theorization of social capital in the analysis of South-East European societies

This article discusses the significance of social capital in Bourdieu-inspired analyses of contemporary South-East European societies. We first recapitulate Bourdieu?s theorization of social capital, emphasizing that it allows different operationalizations expressly because of its rather abstract theoretical character. Following that, we explain what is meant by ?South- East European societies? and that their inequality-generating mechanisms are largely based on social closure. In the central part of the article, we comment on some attempts at operationalization of social capital in the SEE region. While we also discuss two cases of eclectically mixing Lin?s operationalization with Bourdieusian concepts, at the center of our attention is the elaboration of Bourdieu?s theorization of social capital put forward by the Serbian sociologist Predrag Cveticanin. The relevance of his concepts of ?social capital of solidarity? and ?social capital of informal connections? for the study of class relations in post-socialist societies in South-East Europe highlights the advantages of a consistent application of the Bourdieusian framework in a contemporary (post-Bourdieusian) context.

Центральноєвропейський літературний космо-політизм: “Енциклопедія мертвих” Данила Кіша та “Музей безумовної капітуляції” Дубравки Уґрешич

Background: This work compares the story Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš and novel The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić which were written outside the homeland of their authors. It is used the definition of the literary cosmopolitanism as a kind of cultural cosmopolitanism which is characterized raising the issue of identity of heroes in the perspective of world citizenship, often depicting the coexistence of different identities without the specifying a national one. The article studies the influence of Kiš's poetics on Ugrešić's poetics, intertextual relations in the mentioned works. Purpose: The similarity at the level of motives, symbols, worldviews, structure, genre features, artistic techniques as main characteristics of the literary cosmopolitanism is studied in this article. Results: The Central European literary cosmopolitanism in the works by Kiš and Ugrešić is reflected in narration, images and symbols, motives, quotations of the other texts with the similar, cosmopolitan themes. Here the authors set the task of preserving and reconstructing the past by the various "reservoirs of memory" such as memories, photographs, artifacts, customs. The topic of freedom is extremely relevant as a fundamental one for totalitarian and post-totalitarian societies, which is manifested here either through the censorship of memory, or through the fantastic visions of freedom from censorship. Keywords: museum, encyclopedia, library, memory, cosmopolitanism. Assman, A., 2012. Spaces of memory. Forms and transformations of cultural memory. Kyiv: Nika-Tsentr. (In Ukrainian) Birth Certificate, 2021. [online] Cornell University Press. Avialable at: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801448881/birth-certificate/ [Accessed September, 6, 2021] (In English) Gvozden, V., 2002. Danilo Kiš as a Central European writer: contribution to writing and reading identity. In: B. Zieliński, ed. National and Supranational model of culture: Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, s.83–94. (In Polish) Kiš, D., 1979. The Anatomy Lesson. Beolgrade: Nolit. (In Serbian) Kiš, D., 2008. The Book of the Love and Death. L’viv: LA “Piramida”. (In Ukrainian) Kosmos, І., 2015. Mapping of Exile in the Works of Post-Yugoslav Authors. PhD thesis. University of Zagreb. Zagreb, Croatia. (In Croatian) Miedzielski, E., 2014. Unity in difference, differences in unity. Mapping the cultural space of contemporary Croatia on the basis of Croatian prose from the pre-millennium. Poznań: Nauka i innowacje. (In Polish) Milutinović, Z., 2014. Territorial Trap: Danilo Kiš, Cultural Geography and Geopolitical Imagination. East European Politics and Societies, 28, 4 (2014), pp.715–738. (In English) Nedeljković, M., 2016. Kiš's vigilance: ethics as aesthetics in the prose of Danilo Kiš. PhD thesis. University of Westminster. London, United Kingdom. (In English) Pantić, M., 2002. The variations on a theme „Danilo Kiš and Central Europe“. In: B. Zieliński, ed. National and Supranational model of culture: Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, pp.77–82. (In Polish) Richter, A., 2002. The Central Europe with Danil Kiš. In: B. Zieliński, ed. National and Supranational model of culture: Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, pp.95–101. (In Polish) The Conversation of Iurii Andrukhovych with Dubravka Ugrešić about the experience of the land that runs away from under your feet, 2021 [online]. Chytomo. Avialable at: https://chytomo.com/rozmova-iuriia-andrukhovycha-z-dubravkoiu-ugreshych-pro-dosvid-zemli-shcho-vtikaie-z-pid-nih/?fbclid=IwAR1OQgoqcQQ9-xSbn6dvwO0UX6Oc_p0U2k-wWnqTWB3nlZHR-TmLIqaJ8Mo [Accessed in June, 1, 2018] (In Ukrainian) Thompson, M., 2014. Birth Certificate. Belgrade: Clio, pp.475–477. (In Serbian) Ugrešić, D., 2020. The Museum of Unconditional Surrender. Chernivtsi: Knyhy XXI. (In Ukrainian) Vanuska, K., 2009. Citizen of Literature: Dubravka Ugrešić. The Quaterly Conversation, 17, 2009. [online] Dubravka Ugrešić. Avialable at: https://www.dubravkaugresic.com/ writings/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Karen-VanushkaThe-Quaterly-Conversation.pdf [Accessed September, 6, 2021] (In English) Veličković, V., 2015. “Justabit-Racist”: Dubravka Ugrešić. Cosmopolitanism and the Post-Yugoslav Condition. In: L. Platt and S. Upstone, ed. Postmodern Literature and Race. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.145–159. (In English) Veličković, V., 2019. Eastern Europe and Race: Cosmopolitanism and the Post-Yugoslav Condition in Dubravka Ugrešić’s Essays. In: Veličković, V. Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.167–186. (In English) Vervaet, S., 2016. Ugrešić, Hemon and the Paradoxes of Literary Cosmopolitanism: Or How to “World” (Post-) Yugoslav Literature in the Age of Globalization. In: A. Marčetić, Z. Bečanović-Nikolić and V. Elez, eds. Encompassing Comparative Literature: Theory, Interpretation, Perspectives. Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, pp.161–169. (In English)

Shaping the Soviet Empire from Below

Shaping the Soviet Empire from Below Pavel Kolář Rachel Applebaum, Empire of Friends: Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia. 275 pp. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. ISBN-13 978-1501735578. $49.95. Martina Winkler, Panzer in Prag: Der fotografische Blick auf die Invasion von 1968 (Panzers in Prague: The Photographic View of the 1968 Invasion). 229 pp. Düsseldorf: C. W. Leske, 2018. ISBN-13 978-3946595090. €35.00. In the past two decades, a growing body of scholarship has dealt with how East European societies shaped their fates within the confines of the Soviet empire. The conception that portrayed the citizens of socialist dictatorships as powerless subjects of totalitarian power has been extensively qualified. Popular strategies, both undermining and consolidating communist rule, have become the center of attention, with historians exploring cooperation rather than subjugation, self-Sovietization rather than one-sided imposition of Soviet power.1 Both Rachel Applebaum's Empire of Friends and Martina Winkler's Panzer in Prag represent valuable contributions to this historiographical revision. [End Page 414] ________ Applebaum concentrates on the "friendship project" between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia from the end of World War II to the collapse of state socialism, arguing that the project was "central to construction, maintenance, and collapse of the European socialist world." Although the arrangement collapsed under the sway of the bloc's disintegration in 1989, she contends, the friendship project should not be seen as a complete failure. Across 40 years of communist rule and throughout political shifts like 1956 and 1968, the notion of Czechoslovak-Soviet friendship proved a significant mobilizing force. Applebaum holds that friendship campaigns were more than an ideological veil. Rather than asking whether people believed in the project or not, she investigates its capacity to engage citizens socially, to make them cooperate despite the steady decline of ideological zeal after 1956 and, even more dramatically, 1968. The friendship project's longevity and breadth, its capacity to outlast political ruptures and to create a "cohesive world" in everyday life, all militate against the failure interpretation. The book is organized in chronological chapters but cuts across established period boundaries, such as 1956. The liberation of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army in 1945 constitutes the starting point and a continual red thread throughout the investigation. Did the friendship and mutual contacts between Soviet and Czechoslovak citizens, the central question goes, enhance or diminish the stability of really existing socialism? The notion of "empire of friends" itself seems a (meaningful) contradiction in terms, since empire is by definition based on domination of one side by another, on a hierarchical asymmetry between center and periphery, however "cooperative" the periphery might be. Can rulers and ruled be friends? Max Weber sought to answer this question by exploring the "motivations for obedience" on the side of the dominated, and Applebaum follows suit. Czechoslovakia seemed to possess the best chance among the "satellite" countries for the project, thanks to its genuine liberation by the Red Army and the overwhelmingly pro-Soviet attitude of much of society. As early as in the immediate post-1945 period, however, frictions in the friendship project surfaced. The initial Czechoslovak enthusiasm began to fade with the Czechs' budding sense of cultural superiority over allegedly backward Russia. Soviet films, for instance, were considered too shallow for the arguably more refined Czech cultural taste, and avantgarde artists like Vítězslav Nezval made no secret of their disappointment over the poor artistic quality of Soviet Socialist Realism. Nevertheless, this dismissive attitude did not prove robust enough in the subsequent Stalinist phase [End Page 415] (after the takeover of February 1948), when adoration for everything Soviet prevailed as a hegemonic orientation, advanced from above by a mighty ideological apparatus. Of special significance here is to what extent and how the friendship project interacted with the other essential component of Stalinist ideology: its enmity narratives. This is all the more important because even in Stalinism, as Applebaum observes, Czechoslovak society showed rather a lukewarm attitude toward the friendship project, while at the same time participating in an unprecedented hatred-driven campaign in connection with the Slánský show trial, which developed into a significant manifestation of...

Navigating Conflicts through the Media: The Sceptical and Self-Responsible Repertoires of Baltic Russian-Speakers

This article contributes to the scholarly discussions about the self-responsibilization, defined as a configuration of understandings and action strategies oriented to compensate the (perceived) dysfunctionality of the media system, of audience members in East European societies. The authors argue that audience members’ sceptical and self-reliant stance towards political news, which were planted in Soviet times, continue today in the context of mediated geopolitical conflicts. Based on a mixed methods study of Baltic Russian-speaking audiences’ behaviour in the context of the Russia–Ukraine conflict, the authors explore audience members’ media repertoires aimed to “fish out” reliable information from the political news by searching for unspoken clues or identifying ideologically biased messages. The authors introduce six political news repertoires based on the varied degrees of plurality of information channels and conditional trust. Then, they characterize audience groups exercising these repertoires and explain how audience members rationalize the chosen repertoires as a part of their agency in the context of geopolitical turbulence. They suggest that media audiences’ self-responsibilization is a worthwhile object for further study and call for a shift in East European media research away from a structuralist approach and towards an agency-centred one.

FROM TRANSFORMATION TO IDIOSYNCRATIC MODERNISATION SHIFTING ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE RE-SHAPING OF CENTRAL EAST AND EAST EUROPE

After two decades of studies on the transformation of Central and East European regions and societies, most scientific communities seem to have normalised their theoretical concepts and empirical approaches. Leaving former exceptionalist views on systemic transition, convergence and hybridisation, and heading for “business as usual” as found in any society integrated into the world market or exposed to globalisation, they presently give the impression that transformation studies are coming to an end. This paper undertakes a review of the past phases of transformation studies in order to identify research gaps and necessities of further research on social and regional development as influenced by inherited or hybridised structural and cultural elements. It makes a point in favour of abandoning the convergence debate for more context-sensitive analyses of social change and societal restructuring, in particular with regard to structural fragmentation and cultural hybridisation.

Walking into Democratic Citizenship: Anti-Corruption Protests in Romania’s Capital

Walking into Democratic Citizenship: Anti-Corruption Protests in Romania’s Capital

Status Consistency / Inconsistency of the Status Position of Social Classes

In this article author explains the class inequality in west and east European societies. Also we compare class differences of EU and NEE countries. Summarized evaluation of aggregate social status in the context of the study of social stratification requires a certain type of cumulative assessment of the status and remuneration of a particular individual. But not always score (reward) adequate of social position. Inconsistency social position and evaluation (reward) is described the concept of «status inconsistency». In this paper we describe the social inequality and characteristic of social inequality. The main dimensions of social inequality are economic status, education, professional status and political status. Based on the data comparison we implemented generalizations that describe the differences in the nature of social inequality Western European and Eastern European societies.

Class Dimension of Social Inequality

In this article we look at some of the most influential theories of class, which try to explain class inequality in west and east European societies. Social stratification is considered as a system of social inequality, social differentiation, based on differences in the occupied position and functions performed. Social inequality is the basis of stratification of society and is perceived as its main feature. The theory of social stratification reveals the essence of social inequality in such factors as social status, social role and prestige of functionally describing the social structure.

With Eyes Wide Shut. Job Searching Qualified Roma and Employee Seeking Companies

This article is dedicated to Julia Szalai who researches the underlying reasons, consequences and mechanisms of the social exclusion of the Roma in Central and East European societies. Her work and her writings serve as a compass for those who examine problems of social exclusion, including the authors of this article. The present paper discusses position of the Roma on the Hungarian job-market, focusing on highly-qualified young Roma within the context of the business sphere. Our knowledge is informed by the first results of an initiative which creates bridges between disadvantaged social groups and the business sector through pro-active measures. The initiative mobilizes multinational companies, business trainers, NGOs promoting social inclusion, and academics. Both the initiative and our study intend to pursue a subtle understanding of the tangible and hidden obstacles that highly educated young Roma encounter when seeking employment, and of the dilemmas that multinational companies face in relating to these prospective employees.

Some Transaction Cost Effects of Authoritarian Management

This paper studies the transaction cost economizing effects of authoritarian management in organizations and systems subject to higher transaction costs originating from various sources. We analyze the nature, mechanisms, and transaction cost aspects of the authoritarian management style. We argue that the higher the transaction costs of internal organization, the more autocratic the manager is likely to be. We discuss the features of authoritarian managers, illustrating some of our key hypotheses with the example of Henry Ford and his running of the Ford Motor Company. In the context of non-market economies, we relate authoritarian leadership to economic centralism in high transaction cost systems such as East European societies with significant transactional or organizational opportunism, as well as other sources of market failure.

The Refugee Crisis and the Return of the East-West Divide in Europe

Of the many crises that Europe faces today, it is the migration crisis that most profoundly defines the changing nature of European politics. It is also a turning point in central and east European societies’ attitudes to the European Union, and it signals the return of the east-west divide in Europe. The article argues that what Brussels describes as a lack of solidarity is actually a clash of solidarities: national, ethnic, and religious solidarity chafing against our moral and legal obligations with respect to the refugees. The east-west divide over migration has its roots in history, demography and the twists of post-communist transition, while at the same time representing an east European version of popular revolt against globalization. The attitude divide between Europe's west and east on issues of diversity and migration strongly resembles the divide between the big cosmopolitan capital cities and the countryside within western societies themselves.

The Unbearable Whiteness of the Polish Plumber and the Hungarian Peacock Dance around “Race”

This contribution interprets the east-central European post-liberal governments’ recent anti-immigrant, anti-refugee and anti-human-rights hysteria in the context of the increasing dependence of the region's societies for livelihood on employment in the western EU, the widespread racialization of east European labor in the western EU, and the refusal of east European political elites and societies at large to consider possible “Left” critiques of the EU. Given those circumstances, and laboring under related anxieties, post-state-socialist political elites and societies have assumed a fundamentalist-racialist posture. They redirect their repressed anger toward incoming refugees, claim an ahistorical, essential kind of Whiteness and contribute to rigidifying European discussions of “race.”

Unequal Exchanges and the Radicalization of Demographic Nationalism in Hungary

This paper analyzes the structural and discursive context in which Hungary is becoming a low fertility emigrant country during the refolding of the Hungarian society into the direct competitive mechanisms of global capitalism. These changes include the increasing demand for labor within the internally open European Union and other longer-term local developments which have uprooted and continue to uproot a large number of people in Hungarian and East European societies. Following the logic of structure versus discourse interplay in a global and local context, we first carry out a historical structural analysis of the key demographic processes. Then, policies and institutionalized norms are reviewed. Finally, we analyze the radicalization of wider and popular political discourses in order to complete a complex and dynamic analysis of Hungarian demographic nationalism and panic in the second decade of the Millennium.

Siegelbaum, Lewis H Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile Siegelbaum, Lewis The Faustian Bargain of the Soviet Automobile (review)

REVIEWS 363 not really enough to rectify this structural tension. But this is an impressive book that has the merit of making the history of Soviet intelligence accessible to a wider scholarly audience. It will be very helpful to teachers and students alike, and also of interest to the more specialist general reader. School of History, University of Kent Philip Boobbyer Siegelbaum, Lewis H. Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008. xvii + 309 pp. Glossary. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Index. $39.95: £20.50. Siegelbaum, Lewis. The Faustian Bargain of the Soviet Automobile. Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and Societies, 24. The Program on East European Cultures and Societies, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, Trondheim, 2008. 32 pp. Notes. NOK39.00 (paperback). These two titles — a full-length academic monograph covering the entire history of the Soviet automobile and an occasional paper focusing on the late Soviet period — offer a welcome fresh perspective on Communist society. Lewis H. Siegelbaumbeginsthelongerbookbyidentifyingatheoreticaltensionbetweenthe collectivist ethos of Soviet ideology and the car as ‘an object of individual desire, a mobile private space’ (p. ix). Indeed, we learn that Stalin preferred to distribute personal cars to Soviet notables, while Khrushchev promised the Soviet people an abundance of taxis and rental cars, rather than privately-owned vehicles. The Soviet automobile revolution came late, in the 1970s, and in connection with the Brezhnev regime’s focus on consumer goods. For decades the Soviet automobile industry served first of all the state-run economy by producing trucks; 1972 was the first year that it churned out more cars than trucks. Professor Siegelbaum brought to this project his considerable expertise in the social and labour history of the Soviet Union. The monograph’s chapters offer as much information on the construction of car factories, their workforce, and the drivers of their cars as they do on the cars themselves. The book is organized thematically rather than chronologically. The first three chapters are devoted to three major car factories: ZIS (later ZIL) in Moscow, GAZ in Gor´kii, and VAZ in Togliatti. There is inevitably some repetition across the chapters, because the first two factories were constructed during the First Five-Year Plan and all three faced similar challenges during the post-Soviet period. At the same time, the cars they produced marked different periods and different social trends in Soviet history. In Siegelbaum’s apt phrase, ZIS limousines represented ‘the Soviet state on wheels’ (p. 27). Originally based on Packard, they were produced using imported American presses and cutting and stamping machines, as well as the slave labour in a Gulag camp that specialized in leather upholstery. These large SEER, 94, 2, APRIL 2016 364 and heavy luxury cars served the top Soviet brass. Stalin was driven around in an armour-plated seven-ton ZIS-115; he also recommended a change in the insignia on the grill for the entire ZIS series, thereby perhaps underscoring his symbolic ownership of the brand. After all, ZIS stood for the Stalin Factory. The car factory built in the city of Gor´kii was the first attempt at establishing a Soviet Detroit. The largest automobile plant in Europe when it was completed in 1932, it was the result of Soviet cooperation with the Ford Company. The famous M-1 model, or ‘Emka’, in Soviet parlance, was copied from the 1933 Ford V8 Model 40, but supplied with a four-cylinder engine. After the war GAZ made the first Soviet car that ordinary consumers could purchase, the M-20 Pobeda (‘Victory’). The later Volga models, the M-21 and M-24, were the preferred means of transportation for mid-ranking bureaucrats and successful Soviet writers. It was the Togliatti project that propelled the Soviet Union into the age of mass car production. A mega-deal with Fiat in 1966 resulted in the construction of an integrated car factory in the new city conveniently renamed after an Italian Communist leader. The factory marked Lenin’s 100th birthday in 1970 by producing the first VAZ-2101 Zhiguli cars (based on the Fiat-124 and exported under the name Lada). By 1974 the factory was producing 660,000...

Going global: The functions of autobiographical memory in cultural context

This special issue of Memory brings together research from around the globe, from Japanese, Chinese and East Indian cultures, to American and European societies, to the Caribbean, to Turkey and to Australia and New Zealand, which examines how and why people, from childhood to old age, remember the personal past in daily life. This journey highlights the important role of the cultural context in shaping the functional usages of autobiographical memory. We illuminate six major contributions of cross-cultural research to a broader and deeper understanding of the functions of autobiographical memory, and call attention to the filed that memory research must “go global.”

Dechrisitianity of modern society and christian pedagogical work

The process of dechristioanitianisation of modern societies has gone far away, particularly of societies of Western cultural circle, which have appeared and developed on Christian tradition and have strong influence on the concepts and perspectives of education. In the new paradigm of education which frames so-called a unique European area, Christian values are repressed, and the central place belongs to the economic ones. Knowledge has value, its transmission and adoption is collected in the neo liberal strategy of development. Principles of efficiency and market justification become the key points; upbringing, a particularly Christian upbringing have been suppressed: material values have overpowered the spiritual ones. Entrance of religion into the educational systems of many East European societies in the end of nineties, which have showed the intention of realisation of harmonisation with the union of developed Western societies - did not contribute to healing of the spiritual postulates in the individual or his preparation for eternal life. Religion as a subject has been introduced at schools, but in its essence institutional education has remained the same - it still exists in order to bring spiritual life in order dealing with psycho distance or character. Significance of upbringing whole personalities has not been recognised whose heart is inspired and open to remembering God. On the other hand, the widest socio cultural context in which institutional education is taking place does not create the most appropriate conditions for inspiring the soul: education does not prepare the soul for salvation, but for life in the earth's plain in which nourishing spiritual life is neglected by nourishing the real life.

Erratum

Cavanagh, Clare. (2015): “Non-strategic” Eastern Europe and the Fate of the Humanities. DOI: 10.1177/0888325414557027 Clare Cavanagh’s article was intended for the special section “The End of the Story” in volume 28, issue 4, of East European Politics and Societies but was inadvertently dropped in the production process. We will print it in the next issue, but on-line readers can go to the published version of the article at the below link: http://eep.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/21/0888325414557027.abstract