Alexander J Motyl
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1001664 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alexander J Motyl |
| PRENOMES | Alexander J |
| SOBRENOME | Motyl |
| ASSINATURA | MOTYL A J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Anne Applebaum. Red Famine
Book review of Anne Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. McClelland & Stewart, 2017. xxxii, 464 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $42.00, cloth
Putin’s Russia as a fascist political system
There is a broad consensus among students of contemporary Russia that the political system constructed by Vladimir Putin is authoritarian and that he plays a dominant role in it. By building and expanding on these two features and by engaging in a deconstruction and reconstruction of the concept of fascism, this article suggests that the Putin system may plausibly be termed fascist. Not being a type of group, disposition, politics, or ideology, f…
The Ukrainian Nationalist Movement and the Jews
The paradoxes of Paul Robert Magocsi
How is it possible for a Rusyn nation-builder to have contributed to the historiography of Ukraine to such a significant degree that one might suspect that Paul Robert Magocsi is really a Ukrainian nation-builder? Like all social-science puzzles, this one dissolves upon closer inspection. Magocsi resembles a Ukrainian nation-builder – or perhaps even is a Ukrainian nation-builder malgré soi – precisely because he is a Rusyn nation-builder. That i…
Can Ukraine Have a History
Ukraine's emerging national narratives, like those of other newly independent states, need to find their place among and within other, sometimes conflicting, established narratives
Why is the “KGB Bar” possible? Binary morality and its consequences
This article asks why a popular bar named after a criminal Soviet secret police organization has not provoked the outrage of the developed world's intellectual and artistic elites, who would surely condemn an SS Bar. It attributes this moral blindness to the Holocaust's centrality in Israeli, German, and American national discourse and the resultant binary morality that ascribes collective innocence to all Jews at all times and in all places and …
The social construction of social construction
Although most contemporary theories of nationalism and identity formation rest on some form of social constructivism, few theorists of nationalism and identity formation interrogate social constructivism as a social construction – a social science concept “imposed” on the non-self-consciously constructivist behaviors of people, who generally do not believe they are engaging in construction. Since social constructivism – unless it is a metaphysics…
Is Everything Empire? Is Empire Everything
Empire is a growth business these days. Amazon lists 10,513 books with empire in the title on its website; Barnes and Noble lists 10,210.1 Whatever the exact number of books that deal with empires as specifically political entities, empire clearly qual ifies as a hot ticket item for scholars, journalists, pundits, policymakers, advertis ers, and many others. When a word comes to dominate discourse, it has become a cultural phenomenon. But is empi…
Empire Falls
Imperial Ends
Alexander Motyl's account of imperial decay and collapse is strictly structural: he vehemently rejects theories that make room for agents (or, to give them their proper name, people)
Imagined Communities, Rational Choosers, Invented Ethnies
Nations in Transit, 1998
Father/Land. A Personal Search for the New Germany
Why Empires Reemerge
Tsarist Russia fell apart rapidly and comprehensively and was replaced by another empire, the Soviet Union. The second German Empire also collapsed, but the Third Reich failed to survive. The disintegration of the Habsburg and Ottoman realms proved to be irreversible. Will an empire rise from the ruins of the Soviet Union? As imperial collapse has been the prelude to imperial revival, failed reimperialization, and nonrevival, answering this quest…
Structural Constraints and Starting Points
It may be highly desirable for the Soviet Union's successor states to construct markets, democratic regimes, the rule of law, and civil societies as quickly as possible, but is the desirable possible?' For those former Soviet republics that were an integral and thoroughly communized part of the USSR since the 1920s, the answer is no.2 Rapid, fundamental, and comprehensive change, in a word, revolution, is impossible because the structural legacy …
Dilemmas of Independence
Negating the negation
Negating the Negation
There is a savage irony at the core of Sovietology. Whereas the study of Soviet history and politics should have concerned itself with everything Soviet, it traditionally focused almost exclusively only on what was Russian. By ignoring the non-Russians as something not Russian and, thus, by implication, inconsequential, “Sovietology in one country” contradicted its own premises and, thereby, turned in upon, indeed even negated, itself. By setting…
The Post-Soviet Nations
The Factor and the Logic of Sovietology, by Gregory Gleason Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historic Perspective: What Gorbachev Inherited, by Walker Connor Ideology and the Making of a Nationalities Policy, by Ronald J. Hill Legitimations, Nationalities, and the Deep Structure of Ideology, by Neil Harding Managing Nationalism: State, Law, and the National Question in the USSR, by John N. Hazard Elites and Ethnic I…
The Great Challenge
The End of the Soviet Empire
Dilemmas of Independence
The Post-Soviet Nations
Concepts and Skocpol
In a 1980 article discussing historical and theoretical developments in the study of revolution, Jack Goldstone distinguished among three `generations' and suggested that the work of the third, as typified by Theda Skocpol, represented an advance on those that preceded it. This paper argues the opposite by critically analyzing the work that has defined most third-generation scholarship, States and Social Revolutions. The reasons for Skocpol's ina…
Part I
When we met last year, the situation in the Soviet Union, although fluid, was still hopeful. One year later, things seem to have become immeasurably worse. Some will, perhaps, dispute this assessment and argue that the situation is even more hopeful than it was in the past. Such arguments remind me of socialists who think that now is the time to build socialism in Eastern Europe. Clearly, the situation in Armenia and Azerbaijan is out of control.…
Putin’s Russia as a fascist political system
There is a broad consensus among students of contemporary Russia that the political system constructed by Vladimir Putin is authoritarian and that he plays a dominant role in it. By building and expanding on these two features and by engaging in a deconstruction and reconstruction of the concept of fascism, this article suggests that the Putin system may plausibly be termed fascist. Not being a type of group, disposition, politics, or ideology, f…
Why Empires Reemerge
Tsarist Russia fell apart rapidly and comprehensively and was replaced by another empire, the Soviet Union. The second German Empire also collapsed, but the Third Reich failed to survive. The disintegration of the Habsburg and Ottoman realms proved to be irreversible. Will an empire rise from the ruins of the Soviet Union? As imperial collapse has been the prelude to imperial revival, failed reimperialization, and nonrevival, answering this quest…
Is Everything Empire? Is Empire Everything
Empire is a growth business these days. Amazon lists 10,513 books with empire in the title on its website; Barnes and Noble lists 10,210.1 Whatever the exact number of books that deal with empires as specifically political entities, empire clearly qual ifies as a hot ticket item for scholars, journalists, pundits, policymakers, advertis ers, and many others. When a word comes to dominate discourse, it has become a cultural phenomenon. But is empi…
"Sovietology in One Country" or Comparative Nationality Studies
Stalin must have known better. A non-Russian and the author of Marxism and the National Question, he was surely aware that his slogan of "socialism in one country" obscured the USSR's profoundly multinational character. To the degree that he really built socialism, Stalin clearly did so not in one country but in many simultaneously. Indeed, not only did the Soviet republics lend one another what Soviet propagandists like to call disinterested pro…
Structural Constraints and Starting Points
It may be highly desirable for the Soviet Union's successor states to construct markets, democratic regimes, the rule of law, and civil societies as quickly as possible, but is the desirable possible?' For those former Soviet republics that were an integral and thoroughly communized part of the USSR since the 1920s, the answer is no.2 Rapid, fundamental, and comprehensive change, in a word, revolution, is impossible because the structural legacy …
Imagined Communities, Rational Choosers, Invented Ethnies
Outside Moscow. Power, Politics, and Budgetary Policy in the Soviet Republics
Will the Non-Russians Rebel
The Post-Soviet Nations
The Factor and the Logic of Sovietology, by Gregory Gleason Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historic Perspective: What Gorbachev Inherited, by Walker Connor Ideology and the Making of a Nationalities Policy, by Ronald J. Hill Legitimations, Nationalities, and the Deep Structure of Ideology, by Neil Harding Managing Nationalism: State, Law, and the National Question in the USSR, by John N. Hazard Elites and Ethnic I…
Dilemmas of Independence
The Turn to the Right
The social construction of social construction
Although most contemporary theories of nationalism and identity formation rest on some form of social constructivism, few theorists of nationalism and identity formation interrogate social constructivism as a social construction – a social science concept “imposed” on the non-self-consciously constructivist behaviors of people, who generally do not believe they are engaging in construction. Since social constructivism – unless it is a metaphysics…
The paradoxes of Paul Robert Magocsi
How is it possible for a Rusyn nation-builder to have contributed to the historiography of Ukraine to such a significant degree that one might suspect that Paul Robert Magocsi is really a Ukrainian nation-builder? Like all social-science puzzles, this one dissolves upon closer inspection. Magocsi resembles a Ukrainian nation-builder – or perhaps even is a Ukrainian nation-builder malgré soi – precisely because he is a Rusyn nation-builder. That i…
Empire Falls
Imperial Ends
Alexander Motyl's account of imperial decay and collapse is strictly structural: he vehemently rejects theories that make room for agents (or, to give them their proper name, people)
The Post-Soviet Nations
Reassessing the Soviet Crisis
Journal Article Reassessing the Soviet Crisis: Big Problems, Muddling Through, Business as Usual Get access Alexander J. Motyl Alexander J. Motyl ALEXANDER J. MOTYL is assistant professor of political science at Columbia University and directs the Columbia Harriman Institute's Nationality and Siberian Studies Program. He is author of Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR and of the forthcoming Sovietology, Ratio…
Viacheslav Lypyns’kyi and the Ideology and Politics of Ukrainian Monarchism
When Ukraine was plunged into chaos in 1919-1920, thousands of its former inhabitants sought refuge abroad in Central and Western Europe. The intense soul-searching that naturally followed the decision to emigrate was an ideal breeding ground for ideologies of all kinds. Galicians grouped about Ievhen Petrushevych. President of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR), and placed their hopes for an independent Galicia on the Entente powers; So…
The Rural Origins of the Communist and Nationalist Movements in Wolyn Województwo, 1921-1939
When two diametrically opposed revolutionary movements gain the support of the peasantry of a given population, it is logical to ask whether this support came from all peasant strata equally or from one in particular. This question is especially relevant to the eastern Polish województwo of Wołyń in the 1930s. Overwhelmingly populated by Ukrainian peasants, the rural areas of Wołyń województwo were strongly influenced by both Ukrainian Communists…
The Rural Origins of the Communist and Nationalist Movements in Wolyn Województwo, 1921-1939
When two diametrically opposed revolutionary movements gain the support of the peasantry of a given population, it is logical to ask whether this support came from all peasant strata equally or from one in particular. This question is especially relevant to the eastern Polish województwo of Wołyń in the 1930s. Overwhelmingly populated by Ukrainian peasants, the rural areas of Wołyń województwo were strongly influenced by both Ukrainian Communists…
The Turn to the Right
Viacheslav Lypyns’kyi and the Ideology and Politics of Ukrainian Monarchism
When Ukraine was plunged into chaos in 1919-1920, thousands of its former inhabitants sought refuge abroad in Central and Western Europe. The intense soul-searching that naturally followed the decision to emigrate was an ideal breeding ground for ideologies of all kinds. Galicians grouped about Ievhen Petrushevych. President of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR), and placed their hopes for an independent Galicia on the Entente powers; So…
The Last Empire
Will the Non-Russians Rebel
Part I
Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to welcome you to the Nationality and Siberian Studies Program's first annual conference on “The Soviet Nationalities and Gorbachev.” With so distinguished a collection of experts, I am certain that our discussion will prove to be both a stimulating intellectual experience and a permanent addition to the debate on Soviet nationality policy
Outside Moscow. Power, Politics, and Budgetary Policy in the Soviet Republics
Reassessing the Soviet Crisis
Journal Article Reassessing the Soviet Crisis: Big Problems, Muddling Through, Business as Usual Get access Alexander J. Motyl Alexander J. Motyl ALEXANDER J. MOTYL is assistant professor of political science at Columbia University and directs the Columbia Harriman Institute's Nationality and Siberian Studies Program. He is author of Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR and of the forthcoming Sovietology, Ratio…
"Sovietology in One Country" or Comparative Nationality Studies
Stalin must have known better. A non-Russian and the author of Marxism and the National Question, he was surely aware that his slogan of "socialism in one country" obscured the USSR's profoundly multinational character. To the degree that he really built socialism, Stalin clearly did so not in one country but in many simultaneously. Indeed, not only did the Soviet republics lend one another what Soviet propagandists like to call disinterested pro…
Part I
When we met last year, the situation in the Soviet Union, although fluid, was still hopeful. One year later, things seem to have become immeasurably worse. Some will, perhaps, dispute this assessment and argue that the situation is even more hopeful than it was in the past. Such arguments remind me of socialists who think that now is the time to build socialism in Eastern Europe. Clearly, the situation in Armenia and Azerbaijan is out of control.…
Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR
Concepts and Skocpol
In a 1980 article discussing historical and theoretical developments in the study of revolution, Jack Goldstone distinguished among three `generations' and suggested that the work of the third, as typified by Theda Skocpol, represented an advance on those that preceded it. This paper argues the opposite by critically analyzing the work that has defined most third-generation scholarship, States and Social Revolutions. The reasons for Skocpol's ina…
The Great Challenge
The End of the Soviet Empire
Dilemmas of Independence
The Post-Soviet Nations
Negating the negation
Negating the Negation
There is a savage irony at the core of Sovietology. Whereas the study of Soviet history and politics should have concerned itself with everything Soviet, it traditionally focused almost exclusively only on what was Russian. By ignoring the non-Russians as something not Russian and, thus, by implication, inconsequential, “Sovietology in one country” contradicted its own premises and, thereby, turned in upon, indeed even negated, itself. By setting…
The Post-Soviet Nations
The Factor and the Logic of Sovietology, by Gregory Gleason Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historic Perspective: What Gorbachev Inherited, by Walker Connor Ideology and the Making of a Nationalities Policy, by Ronald J. Hill Legitimations, Nationalities, and the Deep Structure of Ideology, by Neil Harding Managing Nationalism: State, Law, and the National Question in the USSR, by John N. Hazard Elites and Ethnic I…
Dilemmas of Independence
Structural Constraints and Starting Points
It may be highly desirable for the Soviet Union's successor states to construct markets, democratic regimes, the rule of law, and civil societies as quickly as possible, but is the desirable possible?' For those former Soviet republics that were an integral and thoroughly communized part of the USSR since the 1920s, the answer is no.2 Rapid, fundamental, and comprehensive change, in a word, revolution, is impossible because the structural legacy …
Father/Land. A Personal Search for the New Germany
Why Empires Reemerge
Tsarist Russia fell apart rapidly and comprehensively and was replaced by another empire, the Soviet Union. The second German Empire also collapsed, but the Third Reich failed to survive. The disintegration of the Habsburg and Ottoman realms proved to be irreversible. Will an empire rise from the ruins of the Soviet Union? As imperial collapse has been the prelude to imperial revival, failed reimperialization, and nonrevival, answering this quest…
Nations in Transit, 1998
Imperial Ends
Alexander Motyl's account of imperial decay and collapse is strictly structural: he vehemently rejects theories that make room for agents (or, to give them their proper name, people)
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