George Soroka
Biographic Data
| ID | 2197292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Soroka |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Soroka |
| SIGNATURE | SOROKA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2796-315X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fractured Pasts? Views on Soviet History Among Russians and Ukrainians Prior to the 2022 Invasion
This article examines the divergent historical views espoused by Russian and Ukrainian societies and their representatives on topics such as the 1932-1933 famine, Stalinism, and the post-World War II Soviet Union. We draw on an original online survey, conducted simultaneously in January 2021 in Ukraine and Russia, to provide an in-depth analysis of views on history in Ukraine and Russia before the 2022 invasion. In Russia, we illustrate how littl…
The Post-Communist Far Right and Its Transnational Linkages
In this special issue, our contributors move the academic conversation beyond methodological nationalism and approaches that analyze far-right movements only within their respective state contexts by interrogating the circulation of ideologies, funds, and people across sociopolitical boundaries. Our goal is to scrutinize the far right in post-communist Eastern Europe by examining the multitudinous and multidirectional ties that exist between grou…
Defending History? The Impact of Context and Speaker in Russia
Political attempts to control how the past may be represented have flourished in the twenty-first century. Russia participates in this trend, having taken steps to legislatively and juridically safeguard the legacy of the USSR’s involvement in World War II. This has institutionalized an interpretation of the fight against Nazism that was already widely held in society, making the Russian case a “hard test” for evaluating when the violation of a h…
International Relations by Proxy? The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church
Russian officials and the Moscow Patriarchate have worked together in recent years to promote a socially conservative policy agenda, both domestically and beyond the Russian Federation's borders. Examining official documents and the statements of key leaders, this article evaluates the development and nature of contemporary church-state relations as they pertain to international relations. The picture that emerges is one of pragmatic partnering, …
The Politics of the Past: Polish-Soviet and Polish-Russian Efforts at Historical Reconciliation
This article examines Polish-Soviet, and subsequently Polish–Russian, relations through the lens of successive bilateral efforts to address “blank spots” in the shared history of these two neighbors. Considered are the different institutional guises such attempts have taken, the events and topics scrutinized, the ways in which both sides sought to mitigate the negative impact of troubled pasts on the present, and how effective these iterative bod…
When the Past Is Not Another Country: The Battlefields of History in Russia
In this introduction to our special issue on the politics of memory in the post-Soviet space, we present a four-part analytical framework through which to evaluate recent developments in the region. Specifically, we focus on: 1) the circulation of memories across space and time; 2) the factors that condition the recall of the past; 3) the actors involved in these processes; and 4) the logics that guide how the past is represented and interpreted.…
Circulation, Conditions, Claims: Examining the Politics of Historical Memory in Eastern Europe
Across Eastern Europe how the past is remembered has become a crucial factor for understanding present-day political developments within and between states. In this introduction, we first present the articles that form part of this special section through a discussion of the various methods used by the authors to demonstrate the potential ways into studying collective memory. We then define the regional characteristics of Eastern Europe’s mnemoni…
Recalling Katyń: Poland, Russia, and the Interstate Politics of History
This article explores the role played by the 1940 Katyń massacre in structuring foreign relations between post-communist Poland and Russia. In so doing, it offers a theoretical model through which to understand the combative politics over history that have burgeoned in Eastern and Central Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Tracing how political discourse over the massacre has evolved from the late 1980s to the present, it examines …
An introduction to conflict, politics, and the Christian East: Towards a theoretical typology
This introduction to a collection of five studies focusing on church-state relations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) provides a theoretical typology through which to view the complex and varied relationships that exist between Christianity and Christians and the states and political actors that comprise the MENA region. Conceptual insights are discussed in both general terms and in relation to the arguments and conclusions advanced by …
Nationalism, Democracy, and Memory Laws
Controversies over historical interpretation have become a key focus of contemporary politics. Recently, these issues have taken on particular prominence in Europe, where a burgeoning array of "memory laws" has sparked heated debates. While laws prohibiting Holocaust denial are their progenitors, most of the newer laws are intended to shape, rather than simply to reflect, social norms about how the past should be understood and discussed. They al…
Bringing the Past into the Present: Toward a New Social Scientific Research Agenda
Ukraine after Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security
The Convolutions of Historical Politics
Postcommunist states have more experience than most in navigating the difficult waters of the Acheron and Lethe. History among these polities often represents less a rearward glance than a lived re
The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics
Irina Papkova New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, xiii+265pp, $65.00 h/b THAT THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, AND THE MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE (MP) especially, have come to play an increasingly visible role i
Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Roger E. Kanet (ed.), Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xiv + 296pp., £60.00 h/b. This is an important and timely book, due both to the subject matte
Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State
Journal Article Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State Get access Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State. By Bryan S. Turner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 372pp. $99.00. George Soroka George Soroka Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volum…
Nationalism, Democracy, and Memory Laws
Controversies over historical interpretation have become a key focus of contemporary politics. Recently, these issues have taken on particular prominence in Europe, where a burgeoning array of "memory laws" has sparked heated debates. While laws prohibiting Holocaust denial are their progenitors, most of the newer laws are intended to shape, rather than simply to reflect, social norms about how the past should be understood and discussed. They al…
Circulation, Conditions, Claims: Examining the Politics of Historical Memory in Eastern Europe
Across Eastern Europe how the past is remembered has become a crucial factor for understanding present-day political developments within and between states. In this introduction, we first present the articles that form part of this special section through a discussion of the various methods used by the authors to demonstrate the potential ways into studying collective memory. We then define the regional characteristics of Eastern Europe’s mnemoni…
When the Past Is Not Another Country: The Battlefields of History in Russia
In this introduction to our special issue on the politics of memory in the post-Soviet space, we present a four-part analytical framework through which to evaluate recent developments in the region. Specifically, we focus on: 1) the circulation of memories across space and time; 2) the factors that condition the recall of the past; 3) the actors involved in these processes; and 4) the logics that guide how the past is represented and interpreted.…
Recalling Katyń: Poland, Russia, and the Interstate Politics of History
This article explores the role played by the 1940 Katyń massacre in structuring foreign relations between post-communist Poland and Russia. In so doing, it offers a theoretical model through which to understand the combative politics over history that have burgeoned in Eastern and Central Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Tracing how political discourse over the massacre has evolved from the late 1980s to the present, it examines …
Defending History? The Impact of Context and Speaker in Russia
Political attempts to control how the past may be represented have flourished in the twenty-first century. Russia participates in this trend, having taken steps to legislatively and juridically safeguard the legacy of the USSR’s involvement in World War II. This has institutionalized an interpretation of the fight against Nazism that was already widely held in society, making the Russian case a “hard test” for evaluating when the violation of a h…
International Relations by Proxy? The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church
Russian officials and the Moscow Patriarchate have worked together in recent years to promote a socially conservative policy agenda, both domestically and beyond the Russian Federation's borders. Examining official documents and the statements of key leaders, this article evaluates the development and nature of contemporary church-state relations as they pertain to international relations. The picture that emerges is one of pragmatic partnering, …
An introduction to conflict, politics, and the Christian East: Towards a theoretical typology
This introduction to a collection of five studies focusing on church-state relations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) provides a theoretical typology through which to view the complex and varied relationships that exist between Christianity and Christians and the states and political actors that comprise the MENA region. Conceptual insights are discussed in both general terms and in relation to the arguments and conclusions advanced by …
Bringing the Past into the Present: Toward a New Social Scientific Research Agenda
The Politics of the Past: Polish-Soviet and Polish-Russian Efforts at Historical Reconciliation
This article examines Polish-Soviet, and subsequently Polish–Russian, relations through the lens of successive bilateral efforts to address “blank spots” in the shared history of these two neighbors. Considered are the different institutional guises such attempts have taken, the events and topics scrutinized, the ways in which both sides sought to mitigate the negative impact of troubled pasts on the present, and how effective these iterative bod…
The Convolutions of Historical Politics
Postcommunist states have more experience than most in navigating the difficult waters of the Acheron and Lethe. History among these polities often represents less a rearward glance than a lived re
Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Roger E. Kanet (ed.), Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, xiv + 296pp., £60.00 h/b. This is an important and timely book, due both to the subject matte
Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State
Journal Article Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State Get access Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State. By Bryan S. Turner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 372pp. $99.00. George Soroka George Soroka Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volum…
The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics
Irina Papkova New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, xiii+265pp, $65.00 h/b THAT THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, AND THE MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE (MP) especially, have come to play an increasingly visible role i
The Convolutions of Historical Politics
Postcommunist states have more experience than most in navigating the difficult waters of the Acheron and Lethe. History among these polities often represents less a rearward glance than a lived re
Ukraine after Maidan: Revisiting Domestic and Regional Security
Bringing the Past into the Present: Toward a New Social Scientific Research Agenda
Nationalism, Democracy, and Memory Laws
Controversies over historical interpretation have become a key focus of contemporary politics. Recently, these issues have taken on particular prominence in Europe, where a burgeoning array of "memory laws" has sparked heated debates. While laws prohibiting Holocaust denial are their progenitors, most of the newer laws are intended to shape, rather than simply to reflect, social norms about how the past should be understood and discussed. They al…
An introduction to conflict, politics, and the Christian East: Towards a theoretical typology
This introduction to a collection of five studies focusing on church-state relations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) provides a theoretical typology through which to view the complex and varied relationships that exist between Christianity and Christians and the states and political actors that comprise the MENA region. Conceptual insights are discussed in both general terms and in relation to the arguments and conclusions advanced by …
The Politics of the Past: Polish-Soviet and Polish-Russian Efforts at Historical Reconciliation
This article examines Polish-Soviet, and subsequently Polish–Russian, relations through the lens of successive bilateral efforts to address “blank spots” in the shared history of these two neighbors. Considered are the different institutional guises such attempts have taken, the events and topics scrutinized, the ways in which both sides sought to mitigate the negative impact of troubled pasts on the present, and how effective these iterative bod…
When the Past Is Not Another Country: The Battlefields of History in Russia
In this introduction to our special issue on the politics of memory in the post-Soviet space, we present a four-part analytical framework through which to evaluate recent developments in the region. Specifically, we focus on: 1) the circulation of memories across space and time; 2) the factors that condition the recall of the past; 3) the actors involved in these processes; and 4) the logics that guide how the past is represented and interpreted.…
Circulation, Conditions, Claims: Examining the Politics of Historical Memory in Eastern Europe
Across Eastern Europe how the past is remembered has become a crucial factor for understanding present-day political developments within and between states. In this introduction, we first present the articles that form part of this special section through a discussion of the various methods used by the authors to demonstrate the potential ways into studying collective memory. We then define the regional characteristics of Eastern Europe’s mnemoni…
Recalling Katyń: Poland, Russia, and the Interstate Politics of History
This article explores the role played by the 1940 Katyń massacre in structuring foreign relations between post-communist Poland and Russia. In so doing, it offers a theoretical model through which to understand the combative politics over history that have burgeoned in Eastern and Central Europe after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Tracing how political discourse over the massacre has evolved from the late 1980s to the present, it examines …
International Relations by Proxy? The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church
Russian officials and the Moscow Patriarchate have worked together in recent years to promote a socially conservative policy agenda, both domestically and beyond the Russian Federation's borders. Examining official documents and the statements of key leaders, this article evaluates the development and nature of contemporary church-state relations as they pertain to international relations. The picture that emerges is one of pragmatic partnering, …
The Post-Communist Far Right and Its Transnational Linkages
In this special issue, our contributors move the academic conversation beyond methodological nationalism and approaches that analyze far-right movements only within their respective state contexts by interrogating the circulation of ideologies, funds, and people across sociopolitical boundaries. Our goal is to scrutinize the far right in post-communist Eastern Europe by examining the multitudinous and multidirectional ties that exist between grou…
Defending History? The Impact of Context and Speaker in Russia
Political attempts to control how the past may be represented have flourished in the twenty-first century. Russia participates in this trend, having taken steps to legislatively and juridically safeguard the legacy of the USSR’s involvement in World War II. This has institutionalized an interpretation of the fight against Nazism that was already widely held in society, making the Russian case a “hard test” for evaluating when the violation of a h…
Fractured Pasts? Views on Soviet History Among Russians and Ukrainians Prior to the 2022 Invasion
This article examines the divergent historical views espoused by Russian and Ukrainian societies and their representatives on topics such as the 1932-1933 famine, Stalinism, and the post-World War II Soviet Union. We draw on an original online survey, conducted simultaneously in January 2021 in Ukraine and Russia, to provide an in-depth analysis of views on history in Ukraine and Russia before the 2022 invasion. In Russia, we illustrate how littl…
Law (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · History (9 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (7 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)