Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 4079115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Sieca-Kozlowski |
| SIGNATURE | SIECA-KOZLOWSKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | PIPSS.ORG / CERCEC |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Interview with Sergei Ivanov - Lieutenant (Border troops), Vilnius, Lithuania, 24 August 2015 (RU)
Sergei Ivanov was born in 1959 in the city of Chita, in Russia, in the family of an officer transferred to Vilnius, Lithuania in 1965, to serve in the railroad troops. In 1976, Sergei Ivanov entered the Higher Military Border Guard School and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He was deployed to Tajikistan in 1981 for a year to defend the border against bandit groups and support the local population. He then spent one year in Afghanistan, an…
Les vétérans soviétiques d’Afghanistan à l’épreuve des nouveaux États post-soviétiques
Cet article compare les trajectoires des anciens combattants d’Afghanistan dans deux pays de l’ex-URSS : la Moldavie et la Lituanie. Il repose sur une enquête qualitative centrée sur les récits de vie, visant à rendre compte de la diversité des parcours combattants. On interrogera la place des vétérans d’Afghanistan dans des sociétés qui ont un socle commun par leur passé soviétique mais ont suivi des dynamiques très différentes après la chute de…
Interview with Victor Alerguș, - Sergeant (Soviet-Afghan War) & Officer of a Special Operation Team MMVD (Transnistrian War) -, Conducted in Chişinău, Moldova, 25 August 2018 (RU)
Victor Alerguș (b.1968) was drafted in 1986 and sent to Afghanistan. He is trained during several months in order to integrate an artillery regiment as a junior sergeant. After his military service he worked for some time with a friend who was an entrepreneur; then he joined the OMON in 1989-1990. With the fall of the USSR, the OMON were converted into a special operation brigade in the framework of the Moldovan MVD (MMVD). V. Alerguș remained in…
Interview with Sergei Nazarenko, - Officer (Soviet-Afghan War & Transnistrian War) -, Conducted in Chișinău, Moldova, 28 August 2018 (RU)
Serguei Nazarenko is a Russian officer trained at the Suvarov school and at the Frunze Academy. He was born in Moldova where his father himself served as an officer. After fighting in Afghanistan, he was sent to Germany, among other places, and then to the military region of Odessa. He was there at the time of the fall of the USSR. He made the choice to swear an oath to the Moldovan army at the beginning of the Transnistrian conflict
Interview with Mikhail Iashin, - Director of the Cheshire Home for War Invalids (2015-Present) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, 13 February 2019 (RU)
Mikhail Iashin, originally from Krasnoyarsk, is the Director of the Regional Public Organization "Society for the Disabled of the War in Afghanistan", the Moscow Cheshire Home since 2015. He was himself a resident of the Cheshire Home in 1996 - as an invalid of the second group – waiting to be fitted with a prosthesis. On the 29th of July 1985, he had stepped on an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan and lost a leg. Since then, he became an active…
Interview with Retired Major General Iuri Nauman, - Director of the Cheshire Home for War Invalids (1992-2015) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, 13 July 2010 (RU)
Iuri Nauman, retired Major General, was the Director of the Moscow Cheshire Home from 1992 until his death in 2015. The Cheshire Home is a rehabilitation facility for soldiers of local wars. It opened in 1992 and was financed by the Foundation Lord Cheshire (Hero of the British RAF during WWII). Today it survives exclusively thanks to gifts and philanthropic support. When I arrived at the Cheshire home on the 13th of July 2010, Iuri Nauman immedi…
Interview with Robertas Krikstaponis, - Conscript (Soviet-Afghan War) -, Conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania, 25 August 2015 (RU)
Robertas Krikstaponis was born in 1967 in Khaulmas, Lithuania. He was conscripted in the Soviet Army in 1986 and trained as an infantryman and then as a film projectionist. Back from Afghanistan, he embarked on a career in the police force
Interview with Mikhail Karp, - Officer (Soviet-Afghan War) & Intelligence Officer (Transnistrian War), Chișinău, Moldova, 26 August 2018 (RU)
Mikhail Karp was born in Transnistria. He is a former professional military officer who, during the war in Afghanistan, was in charge of the catering of the combatant personnel. Eventually he fought briefly in Herat where he experience his first baptism by fire. Informally, because of his talent as a painter and scenographer, he was frequently asked by the military to create museums and exhibitions. He is retired and currently working at the Mili…
Interview with Olga Capatina, - Physiotherapist and GRU Operative (Soviet-Afghan War) & Double Agent (Transnistrian War) -, Conducted in Paris, France, 25 September 2015 (EN)
Olga Capatina was born in Lencauti, Ocnita in Moldavia in May 1955. She graduated in philology, psychology and was trained as a nurse. After a career in journalism and due to a divorce that left her with two young children, she joined a military Commissariat where she was guaranteed a decent salary. In July 1987, she was sent to Afghanistan as a physiotherapist. A year later in July 1988, she joined the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate) and too…
Interview with Vadim, - Voluntary Conscript, then Contract Intelligence Officer (2nd Chechen War) -, Conducted in Moscow, Russia, July 2010 (EN)
Vadim served in Chechnya during the second campaign as a conscript in a paratrooper company in 2005 for a year and a half. He then enrolled for 6 more months in Chechnya as a contract intelligence officer
Soviet & Post-Soviet Wars
For some years now, the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies has introduced in its issues the publication of interviews with veterans, war reporters, or other witnesses of the Soviet and post-Soviet wars. Indeed, it seemed important to us to gather the testimony of witnesses who are still alive in order to shed light on past or current conflicts. Today, PIPSS wishes to intensify the practice of collecting oral testimonies which …
Photo-Gallery - 30th Anniversary of the Withdrawal of the Soviet Troops from Afghanistan, Moscow, 14th & 15th February 2019
The Immortal Contingent Parade (Бесмертный контингент), Afganskii Skver (Afghan Square), Moscow, 14th February 2019 Morning On the 14th of February 2019 a memorial event was held in Afghan Square, Moscow to mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the Soviet-Afghan War. A procession of Soviet Afghan War veterans and their families carried portraits of internationalist killed in Afghanistan, held a rally and a laid flowers and wreaths at the monume…
Interview with Petras Gaškas, - Sergeant (Soviet-Afghan War) -, Conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania, 26 August 2015 (RU)
Petras Gaškas was born in 1968 in Vilnius, Lithuania. He was conscripted in the Soviet Army in 1987, sent to Afghanistan and trained as a sergeant
The Evolution of Prisons and Penality in the Former Soviet Union - A Suggested Bibliography
Russian Sources & Resources Books L. Al'pern, Son i Iav' zhenskoj tiurmy, Sankt-Petersburg: Aleteiia, Seriia « Gendernye issledovaniia », 2004 L. Al'pern, Zametki posetitelia tiurem, Moskva, 2001 V. Abramkin, Poiski vykhoda : Prestupnost’, ugolovnaia politika i mesta zakliucheniia v postsovetskom prostranstve, Moskva, 1996 I. Gabaj, Pisma iz zakliucheniia (1970-1972), Sost. Vdtup. Stat’ia i kommentarii M. Khritonova. Moskva : Novoe Literaturnoe O…
Compte-rendu de la Journée d'étude « Le genre et la guerre
The workshop organized by Brian Sandberg, University of Northern Illinois and IEA resident in Paris and by Marion Trévisi, University of Picardie at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (IEA) ment to challenge the notion that warfare is an intrinsically masculine domain. Although warfare has often been conceived of as an essentially masculine sphere of human activity, recent studies reveal that women have been much more intimately involved in m…
Interview with Olga Capatina, a Moldavian Afganka, Paris, 25th September 2015 (in Russian)
Olga Capatina in Afghanistan (1987) Published July 31, 1987 (© CC - Olga Capatina)Soviet War in Afghanistan, Afgankahttps://archive.org/details/OlgaC.Afghanistan Olga Capatina was born in Lencauti, Ocnita in Moldavia in May 1955. She graduated in philology, psychology and was trained as a nurse. After a career in journalism and due to a divorce that left her with two young children, she joined a military Commissariat where she was guaranteed a de…
Chechnya at War and Beyond
Email interview with Yuri Tutov, Russian war photojournalist, 20 October 2014
To be a photographer in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) PIPSS.ORG - Tell us a bit about yourself and about your professional experience at the MVD. But first, how did you become a photographer? Yuri Tutov : Through inheritance. My father was a photo-correspondent and had long encouraged me to take up this study. I was clear on the basics and from 1980 I began to be published in all the sport publications. In 1983 I received the grand prix …
Interview with Nikolai Starodymov, military journalist from 1970 to 2003, Moscow, 23 October 2013
Writing was a vocation PIPSS.ORG - How did you become a military journalist? Nikolai Starodymov: I've always wanted to write. I had started writing at school in 4th grade. Then I went to the Donetsk Military School (Donetskoe Voennoe Uchilishche) to become a sapper (sapior). This was at the end of the 1960s. A network of military schools had been opened at that time to train political officers. Spiritual education was lacking in the military. The…
Chechnya at war and beyond
The Russia-Chechen wars have had an extraordinarily destructive impact on the communities and on the trajectories of personal lives in the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya. This book presents in-depth analysis of the Chechen conflicts and their consequences on Chechen society. It discusses the nature of the violence, examines the dramatic changes which have taken place in society, in the economy and in religion, and surveys current development…
Interview with Igor V. Soloviev, former military psychologist, conducted in Moscow, in October 2011
Forming a socio-psychological service in the Internal Troops (MVD) PIPSS.ORG - How did you get into the military? Igor Soloviev: In 1978, after graduating high school, I entered the military school. It was the Military Political School of Lvov. Now, it is in Ukraine; at that time, it was in the Soviet Union. I studied four years. Later, I earned the rank of Lieutenant and moved to serve in the Amur region of the Far East. In 1991, when I already …
The Post-Soviet Russian State facing War Veterans’ Psychological Suffering
In 1996, a study conducted by a psychiatrist among Russian military conscripts who took part in the first campaign in Chechnya showed that there had been proportionately more victims of psychiatric disorders in Chechnya than in Afghanistan. Since then, a second campaign has followed which is considered to have sent 1.8 million men into the field. Despite its experience of conflicts in recent decades (Afghanistan, two Chechnya campaigns, Ossetia, …
Violence Experienced by Disabled Veterans of the Chechen wars
Through interviews conducted in 2010 veterans of local wars in post-Soviet Russia claim to be the victims of violence on behalf of the State. They consider themselves as victims of negligence and bad treatement, often exposed to unnecessary risks on the battlefield. Once returned to civil life, they speak about rejection and abandonment. The symbolic, institutional, and social violence they describe appears to be particularly prevalant among disa…
Interview with Sergei, 35 years-old, - conscript soldier injured during the storm of Grozny (Winter 1994) -, conducted in Moscow, 14 July, 2010
PIPSS.ORG - How old are you? Sergei: All of thirty five. PIPSS.ORG - What is your marital status? Sergei: Married. PIPSS.ORG - Do you have children? Sergei: I have two children. But the first son ... I am twice married. That's how things turned out. My second daughter was born not long ago. She's a sweetie. She's one year and eight months old. My wife is 12 years younger than I am. PIPSS.ORG - Does your wife work? Sergei: For now she's on materni…
L’État russe Postsoviétique Face À la souffrance psychique de guerre conception et héritage
En 1996, une étude menée par un psychiatre militaire russe auprès de conscrits russes ayant participé à la première guerre de Tchétchénie montrait qu’il y avait eu proportionnellement plus de victimes de troubles psychiatriques en Tchétchénie qu’en Afghanistan. Depuis, une seconde campagne a suivi dont on estime qu’elle a conduit en tout 1 800 000 hommes sur le terrain. Malgré son expérience des conflits ces dernières décennies, le système de soi…
Russian military patriotic education
The military had been concerned about military patriotic education for a long time when Putin's Patriotic Education Programme was published. As soon as the collapse of the Soviet Union occurred, followed a few years later by the creation of the Russian armed forces, they had already been developing patriotic education programmes aimed primarily at youth, aided by veterans of local wars, both volunteers and recruits. The aim of this article is to …
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L'armée russe
The author highlights the various strategies of adaptation generated by the deregulation and uncertainty situation amonst the Russian army since the dissolution of the Varsovy pact. These strategies generate individual profesional reconversions as well as organisational transformations within the military institution. But they also result in transformations of the values that constituted the military institution. These values progressively differ…
Zoltan Barany, Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military
Le livre de Zoltan Barany tente d’expliquer les raisons du déclin de l’armée russe et son incapacité à se réformer à travers l’analyse de l’évolution des relations civilo-militaires, de Gorbačev à Putin. Considérées comme mesure de démocratisation, ces relations (et leur décryptage) doivent permettre de mettre en lumière l’orientation du pays dans cette voie ou dans celle de l’autoritarisme. L’évolution des rapports entre l’institution présidenti…
The Inextricable Ties Between Society and The Army in Post-Soviet Russia
Shefstvo, the creation of patronage relations between units of the armed forces and local governments, is a Russian practice dating back to the 1920s. Though it nearly disappeared at the end of the Soviet era, it re-emerged in the 1990’s when rampant inflation, reductions in military spending and embezzlement created problems of catastrophic proportions for the army. Exchange networks of a more or less spontaneous and informal nature grew up betw…
“There is discrimination in the Russian army against religious minorities” - Interview with Abdurashid Saidov, surgeon, writer and Moscow correspondent for Dagestanskaia Pravda, Moscow, 7 October 2008
PIPSS.ORG – What is it like for Dagestani conscripts? How do the officers relate to them? Are they able to fulfill all their religious duties? Do Dagestanis have the ability to rise to the officer ranks? Abdurashid Saidov: In Moscow, there are more than 10 million residents; in Dagestan, there are 2 million. In each conscription, however, Dagestan offers up many times more young men to the army than Moscow. Speaking of attitudes towards Muslims, …
“Serving the Homeland is a sacred duty for all religious Muslims” - Interview with Marat-Khazrat Arslanov, Imam, Head of the Department of Military-Patriotic Education of the Council of Muftis of Russ…
THE ROLE OF REPRESENTATIVE OF MUSLIM SERVICEMEN PIPSS.ORG - If I’m not mistaken, both the Department of the Council of Muftis of Russia, which is concerned with Muslims in the military service, and the position of Representative of Military Muslims were created at the beginning of the first Chechen war in 1994. What is the role of this representative? What are his functions, and have they evolved with time? Marat-KhazratArslanov: First of all, I …
Introduction - The Relation of the Post-Soviet Army to Muslim Minorities
As the melting pot of the Nation, the Russian army has always been confronted with the issue of ethnic and religious diversity. Depending on the times, it has dealt with it in various ways. What is the relationship today between the post-soviet Russian army and its minorities, the Muslim minorities in particular? The fact that conscription has been maintainedmakes this issue particularly relevant: the Russian army is faced with a strong rise in i…
“In the army, regardless of ethnicity or faith, those who are part of the collective should fulfill their public service”– Interview with Sergei Mel’kov, Co-chairman of the Association of Military Pol…
PIPSS.ORG – Based on prognoses about the growth of the Muslim population in Russia over the next 20 years, both Western and Russian demographers predict an increase of Muslim recruits in the army. I understand this issue arose under Brezhnev and then faded away with the collapse of the USSR, since Azerbaijan and the Central Asian Republics ceased to be part of the USSR. Today with the growth of the Muslim population this question has arisen again…
The Integration of Non-Russian Servicemen in the Imperial, Soviet and Russian army
Russian Sources Articles in Journals Арапов Д.Ю. «Учредить штатные должности военных магометанских мулл » // Военно-исторический журнал, 2003, # 4, c. 73. Арапов Д.Ю. « Можно отметить ряд высоких подвигов воинской доблести проявленных мусульманами » // Военно-исторический журнал, 2004, # 11, c. 43. Безугольный А.« Горцев в армию не призывать и никуда не отправлять... » (мобилизационные мероприятия и национальная политика на Северном Кавказе в пер…
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L’adieu aux armes
Dans cette contribution consacrée aux vétérans russes de la guerre en Tchétchénie, les auteurs explorent un certain nombre de trajectoires post-guerre suivies par les anciens soldats démobilisés ou les policiers retournés à leurs fonctions ordinaires de maintien de l’ordre. La transposition de l’expérience de guerre est l’une des hypothèses avancées, mais d’autres facteurs sont mis en avant pour expliquer les manifestations de violence apparues s…
Russian military patriotic education
The military had been concerned about military patriotic education for a long time when Putin's Patriotic Education Programme was published. As soon as the collapse of the Soviet Union occurred, followed a few years later by the creation of the Russian armed forces, they had already been developing patriotic education programmes aimed primarily at youth, aided by veterans of local wars, both volunteers and recruits. The aim of this article is to …
Interview with Olesya Orlenko, in charge of the International Relations Department at the Historical Memory Foundation in Moscow, conducted in February and October, 2011, in Paris
Structure, Purpose and Organization of the Historical Memory Foundation PIPSS.ORG - Could you introduce the Historical Memory Foundation (http://historyfoundation.ru/) and its staff? Olesya Orlenko: As is indicated in our web site, the Foundation is a non-profit organization. Our goal is to provide assistance to researchers on Russian and East-European history of XXth century. It means that when we have an interesting project in our hands we look…
Police Brutality, Corruption … and Police Reform in Russia & Post-Soviet States (Russian and Western sources) – A Suggested Bibliography
RUSSIAN SOURCES Articles in Journals R. Cherkasov, SMI i obshestvennoe mnenie o militsii // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniia, # 4, 2006, s. 85-88. Ia. Gilinskii, « Politsiia i naselenie: kto dlia kogo? » // Otechestvennye zapiski, # 2, 2003, http://magazines.russ.ru/oz/2003/2/glinsk-pr.htm. G. Favarel-Garrigues, « Sovetskaia militsiia i eio borba s rostom ekonomicheskikh prestuplenii v epokhu zastoia », Neprikosnovennyi Zapas (NZ), vol. 4, # 42, 2…
« […] Local police officers are accused of violence […] but case officers have an opportunity to commit acts of violence with impunity » - Interview with Ekaterina Khozhdaeva, Associate Professor in S…
PIPSS.ORG - Could you introduce yourself? Ekaterina Khozhdaeva: I work in Kazan State Technological University, which is now known as Kazan National Research Technological University, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Management. As soon as I realised, that I was a social scientist (it happened in my fourth year at the University), I decided to specialise in empirical studies. My first topic was mass media in Tatarstan. It was the to…
Interview with Igor V. Soloviev, former military psychologist, conducted in Moscow, in October 2011
Forming a socio-psychological service in the Internal Troops (MVD) PIPSS.ORG - How did you get into the military? Igor Soloviev: In 1978, after graduating high school, I entered the military school. It was the Military Political School of Lvov. Now, it is in Ukraine; at that time, it was in the Soviet Union. I studied four years. Later, I earned the rank of Lieutenant and moved to serve in the Amur region of the Far East. In 1991, when I already …
The Post-Soviet Russian State facing War Veterans’ Psychological Suffering
In 1996, a study conducted by a psychiatrist among Russian military conscripts who took part in the first campaign in Chechnya showed that there had been proportionately more victims of psychiatric disorders in Chechnya than in Afghanistan. Since then, a second campaign has followed which is considered to have sent 1.8 million men into the field. Despite its experience of conflicts in recent decades (Afghanistan, two Chechnya campaigns, Ossetia, …
Violence Experienced by Disabled Veterans of the Chechen wars
Through interviews conducted in 2010 veterans of local wars in post-Soviet Russia claim to be the victims of violence on behalf of the State. They consider themselves as victims of negligence and bad treatement, often exposed to unnecessary risks on the battlefield. Once returned to civil life, they speak about rejection and abandonment. The symbolic, institutional, and social violence they describe appears to be particularly prevalant among disa…
Interview with Sergei, 35 years-old, - conscript soldier injured during the storm of Grozny (Winter 1994) -, conducted in Moscow, 14 July, 2010
PIPSS.ORG - How old are you? Sergei: All of thirty five. PIPSS.ORG - What is your marital status? Sergei: Married. PIPSS.ORG - Do you have children? Sergei: I have two children. But the first son ... I am twice married. That's how things turned out. My second daughter was born not long ago. She's a sweetie. She's one year and eight months old. My wife is 12 years younger than I am. PIPSS.ORG - Does your wife work? Sergei: For now she's on materni…
L’État russe Postsoviétique Face À la souffrance psychique de guerre conception et héritage
En 1996, une étude menée par un psychiatre militaire russe auprès de conscrits russes ayant participé à la première guerre de Tchétchénie montrait qu’il y avait eu proportionnellement plus de victimes de troubles psychiatriques en Tchétchénie qu’en Afghanistan. Depuis, une seconde campagne a suivi dont on estime qu’elle a conduit en tout 1 800 000 hommes sur le terrain. Malgré son expérience des conflits ces dernières décennies, le système de soi…
Chechnya at War and Beyond
Email interview with Yuri Tutov, Russian war photojournalist, 20 October 2014
To be a photographer in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) PIPSS.ORG - Tell us a bit about yourself and about your professional experience at the MVD. But first, how did you become a photographer? Yuri Tutov : Through inheritance. My father was a photo-correspondent and had long encouraged me to take up this study. I was clear on the basics and from 1980 I began to be published in all the sport publications. In 1983 I received the grand prix …
Interview with Nikolai Starodymov, military journalist from 1970 to 2003, Moscow, 23 October 2013
Writing was a vocation PIPSS.ORG - How did you become a military journalist? Nikolai Starodymov: I've always wanted to write. I had started writing at school in 4th grade. Then I went to the Donetsk Military School (Donetskoe Voennoe Uchilishche) to become a sapper (sapior). This was at the end of the 1960s. A network of military schools had been opened at that time to train political officers. Spiritual education was lacking in the military. The…
Chechnya at war and beyond
The Russia-Chechen wars have had an extraordinarily destructive impact on the communities and on the trajectories of personal lives in the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya. This book presents in-depth analysis of the Chechen conflicts and their consequences on Chechen society. It discusses the nature of the violence, examines the dramatic changes which have taken place in society, in the economy and in religion, and surveys current development…
Compte-rendu de la Journée d'étude « Le genre et la guerre
The workshop organized by Brian Sandberg, University of Northern Illinois and IEA resident in Paris and by Marion Trévisi, University of Picardie at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (IEA) ment to challenge the notion that warfare is an intrinsically masculine domain. Although warfare has often been conceived of as an essentially masculine sphere of human activity, recent studies reveal that women have been much more intimately involved in m…
Interview with Olga Capatina, a Moldavian Afganka, Paris, 25th September 2015 (in Russian)
Olga Capatina in Afghanistan (1987) Published July 31, 1987 (© CC - Olga Capatina)Soviet War in Afghanistan, Afgankahttps://archive.org/details/OlgaC.Afghanistan Olga Capatina was born in Lencauti, Ocnita in Moldavia in May 1955. She graduated in philology, psychology and was trained as a nurse. After a career in journalism and due to a divorce that left her with two young children, she joined a military Commissariat where she was guaranteed a de…
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