Author Index

Abeßer, Michel

• Prosperity and Conflict in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Rostov-on-Don: Russian, Cossack, and Armenian Economic Cultures on the Northern Black Sea Coast

Achim, Viorel

• Romanian Interest in the Deportation of Roma to Transnistria 1942-1944

Açıkmeşe, Sinem Akgül

• The EU’s Black Sea Policies: Any Hopes for Success?

Archer, Rory

• Hidden Labor: Albanian Migration in Late-Socialist Croatia

Ardeleanu, Constantin

• Editorial
• The Opening and Development of the Black Sea for International Trade and Shipping 1774–1853

Balistreri, Alexander E.

• Editorial with Boris Belge

Barova, Vihra

• Subcultural Identities - Styles and Ideologies. Subcultural Ways of Life of the Post-Transitional Generation in Bulgaria

Belge, Boris

• Between E and U: Alfred Schnittke, Popular Culture and Serious Music in Late Soviet Socialism (1968-1982)
• Editorial with Alexander E. Balistreri

Bönker, Kirsten

• Watching Television and Emotional Commitment in the Late Soviet Union

Bounegru, Octavian

• The Black Sea Area in the Trade System of the Roman Empire

Brindisi, Jennifer

• Istanbul: How Turkey’s Cultural Capital Has Shaped Its Foreign Policy

Brunova-Kalisetska, Iryna

• Instrumentalisation of History or Inclusive Narrative? Regional Policies and Ethnic Memories in Ukraine

Bulat, Alexandra

• We are not Tolerant as a Nation, but we want Others to Tolerate us: Romainians' Experiences of Discrimination and their Attitudes Towards British People

Carras, Iannis

• Across the Black Sea and into Eurasia: An Ottoman Greek with Skills and Connections in Georgia, Ukraine, Siberia, and China in the Early Eighteenth Century

Cașu, Igor

• "The Quiet Revolution": Revisiting the National Identity Issue in Soviet Moldavia at the Height of Khrushchev's Thaw 1956

Çelikpala, Mitat

• The New Energy Politics of the Black Sea Region

Ciocîltan, Virgil

• The Black Sea, the "Plaque Tournante" of the Euro-Asian Trade during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries with Şerban Papacostea

Charron, Austin

• Crimean Tatars' Postcolonial Condition and Strategies of Cultural Decolonization in Mainland Ukraine

Chebotarova, Anna

• Memory and Military Conflict: Politics of History and its Societal Perception in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine

Cherenkov, Mykhailo

• Ukrainian Protestants After Maidan

Chornomorets, Yuriy

• The Responsibility of Churches During the Ukrainian Crisis

Collmer, Peter

• Pop and Politics in Late Soviet Society. Final remarks

Cușco, Andrei

• 1878, Before and After: Romanian Nation-Building, Russian Imperial Policies, and Visions of Otherness in Southern Bessarabia

De Keghel, Isabelle

• Seventeen Moments of Spring, a Soviet James Bond Series? Official Discourse, Folklore, and Cold War Culture in Late Socialism

Denisova-Schmidt, Elena

• Corruption and Informal Practices in Russia

Denysenko, Larysa

• Laws are for "Suckers", not for "Big Shots"

Dobbins, Michael

• Editorial
• Post-Rose Revolution Georgia: How Democratization Went Wrong - and Why Authoritarianism also May have Backfired

Dobrincu, Dorin

• A Brief History of Romanian Archive Access since 1989

Dominguez Diaz, Marta

• Are New Sufis "Grey Turks"?

Dorokhina, Olga

• Borderlands of Georgian Ukrainians

Dovhanych, Natalia

• Narrating Trauma: Literary Strategies in Ukrainian Survivor Literature of the Second Half of the 20th Century

Druey, Cécile

• Editorial with Eliane Fitzé
• History as a Means of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the North Caucasus/Chechnya

Dumitru, Diana

• Editorial with Petru Negura Moldova
• How Bessarabians Were Perceived by the Romanian Civilian-Military Administration in 1941

Eskenasy, Victor

• Perceptions of the Holocaust in Contemporary Romania: Between Film and Television

Feigelson, Kristian

• Soviet Television and Popular Mass Culture in the 1960s

Fellner, Astrid

• Ukrainian Canadian B/Orders: Culinary Remembrances and Queer Bordercrossings in Marusya Bociurkiw’s Food Was Her Country

Fielding, Heather

• Marina Lewycka, Women’s Work, and the Figure of the Ukrainian Woman as Economic Migrant

Fitzé, Eliane

• Editorial with Cécile Druey

Forestier-Peyrat, Etienne

• Enemy Shores? The Dilemmas of Writing Cold War Histories of the Black Sea

Gheorghica, Nela

• Romanian Cinematography and Film Culture during the Communist Regime

Grelka, Frank

• Editorial with Yuri Radchenko

Grätz, Jonas

• Editorial

Gürel, Ayla

• Beyond Energy: Remarks about the Direction of Turkish-Russian Relations and Their Implications for the Cyprus Problem with Harry Tzimitras

Hamiti, Xhabir

• Islam in Kosovo - the Current State of Affairs and the Way Ahead

Hausleitner, Mariana

• The Cult of Antonescu and the Delayed Reappraisal of the Romanian Holocaust

Havryshko, Marta

• Women’s Body as Battlefield: Sexual Violence during Soviet Сounterinsurgency in Western Ukraine in the 1944-1953

Hofmann, Tatjana

• Ways of Life at a Crossroads. Aksënöv's Ostrov Krym (Island of Crimea)

Horokh, Mykola

• A Chance for Survival: Trapped within the Confrontation between Unified State Political Department and Torgsin

Hotopp-Riecke, Mieste

• Crimean Tatar Diaspora and Cultural Identity between "Yeşil ada", Poland and Germany: History, Structures, Reflections with Dominik Jakub Napiwodzki

Ivanec', Andrij

• Crimean Passions Around EuroMaidan: An Active Pro-European Minority of Crimeans Against the Autonomous Republic’s Pro-Eurasian Authorities and an Ambivalent Majority

Jilge, Wilfried

• Between "Mother Homeland" and Saint Mary: The Independence Monument on the Maidan in Kiev

Jung, Martin

• The Official Condemnation of Communism in Romania and its Repercussions

Kalkadijeva, Daniela

• The Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Cold War

Kapetanović, Mišo

• On the Nationalism of the Gastarbajteri

Karagiannis, Evangelos

• The Pomaks in Bulgaria and Greece: Comparative Remarks

Khamidov, Alisher

• Islam in Kyrgyzstan since 1991

Khromeychuk, Olesya

• Instrumentalisation of War History in Contemporary Memory Politics in Ukraine. A Gender Perspective

King Savić, Sandra

• Editorial
• Serbia’s Sandžak: Caught Between Two Islamic Communities
• Editorial
• Reframing Integration from the Perspective of those who Experienced Migration: An Ethnography with former Labor Migrants and Refugees from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Klimenko, Ekaterina V.

• Towards Forgetting: Russia’s Account of the Stalinist Repression Before and After the Ukraine Crisis

Kobchenko, Kateryna

• Ukrainian emigration to Germany after WWII: Formation and Self-Representation of a Transnational Community (1945–1991)

Kovačević Bielicki, Dragana

• The Western Balkan Migration Route and the Online Media Coverage of the Citizens' Protests

Kratochvil, Alexander

• The Writers and the Maidan
• Editorial
• Considering Slavia Islamica and Ukraine

Kube, Stefan

• Editorial

Kurshutov, Timur

• Cultural and Literary Relations between Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars

Lashchuk, Iuliia

• Bord(h)ers. Why Gender Matters in Migration and Art?

Lazzerini, Edward J.

• Knowledge, Sentiment, and the Fantasy of Empire: Some Thoughts on Russia and its Encounters with Crimea

Liakova, Marina

• The Turkish minority in Bulgaria

Lugarić Vukas, Danijela

• Living Vnye: The Example of Bulat Okudzhava's and Vladimir Vysotskii's Avtorskaia Pesnia

Macarie, Julius-Cezar

• Invisivle Denizens: What Possibilities are Left for Solidarity Amongst Migrant Night Workers in the Nocturnal City of London

Maeva, Mila

• UK Policy Towards Bulgarians and Stereotypes about Them Since 1989

Manolova, Polina

• Editorial
• From European "Free-movers" to Circular Labourers: Bulgarian Migration Experiences to the UK and Back

Marinov, Tchavdar

• National Myths in Post-Communist Bulgaria and Their Criticism

Marynovych, Myroslav

• “Being a Church” During Times of Crisis

Mattingly, Daria

• No Novel for the Ordinary Men? Representation of the Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the Holodomor in Ukrainian Novels

Mirzayev, Razim

• Islamists in Azerbaijan: How Dangerous are They?

Mitrokhin, Nikolay

• Was There an Alternative? Metropolitan Bishop Onuphrius and His First Steps

Mujadižević, Dino

• Turkey's Role in Bosnia and Herzogovina

Mukhina, Irina

• Soviet Port Cities and Consumerism in the 1970s and '80s

Müller, Martin

• Sochi and the 2014 Olympics: Game Over?

Murgescu, Mirela-Luminița

• Romanian Perceptions of Communism

Musteată, Sergiu

• 1991: A Chronology of Moldova’s Independance

Nanay, Julia

• Gas Landscape in the Black Sea Transformed: Ukraine’s Role Challenged by Russia

Napiwodzki, Dominik Jakub 

• Crimean Tatar Diaspora and Cultural Identity between "Yeşil ada", Poland and Germany: History, Structures, Reflections with Mieste Hotopp-Riecke

Narizhna, Victoria

• EuroMaidan in Dnipropetrovsk: Problems and Peculiarities

Negură,Petru

• Editorial with Diana Dumitru
• From a ‘Liberation’ to Another. The Bessarabian Writers During the First Year of Soviet Power (1940-1941): Integration Strategies and Forms of Exclusion

Nikolko, Milana

• Overcoming the boundaries: strategies of cooperation among Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian diaspora groups in response to the Ukrainian crisis. The comparison of Canada and Turkey with Fethi Kurtiy Şahin

Novinšćak Kölker, Karolina

• South-East European Munich: Displaced Persons - Guest Workers - Europeans

Omelicheva, Mariya

• Instrumentalization of Islam in Central Asia: Using Religion for Legitimizing the Governing Regimes

Öner, Selcen

• Soft Power in Turkish Foreign Policy: New Instruments and Challenges

Orttung, Robert W. 

• The 2014 Sochi Olympics and Russia’s Civil Society with Sufian Zhemukhov

Ostapchuk, Tetyana

• Editorial

Ostrovs‘kyj, Pavlo

• EuroMaidan in Lviv: a View From the Inside

Özcelik,Yusuf

• The Development and Establishment of Political Identity in the Republic of Azerbaijan

Öztürk, Erdi

• Delectation or Hegemony: Turkey's Religious Actors in South Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Papailias, Penelope

• Reporting as an Act of Citizenship: The Net, the News and the Greek "Crisis"

Papacostea, Şerban

• The Black Sea, the “plaque tournante” of the Euro-Asian Trade during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries with Virgil Ciocîltan

Parsadanishvili, Mariam

• Statehood, Religion and Strategic Europeanization in the Southern Caucasus with Michael Dobbins

Persson, Emil

• Tears in the Patchwork: The Sochi Olympics and the Display of a Multiethnic Nation

Petersson, Bo

• Display Window or Tripwire? The Sochi Winter Games, the Russian Great Power Ideal and the Legitimacy of Vladimir Putin with Karina Vamling

Portnov, Andriy

• EuroMaidan: Context and Meanings

Roberts, John

• The Southern Gas Corridor and the Challenge of Turkish Stream

Rousselin, Mathieu

• Turkish Soap Power: International Perspectives and Domestic Paradoxes

Rugaru, Nadege

• Voting for the Xenophobic Party "Ataka" in Bulgaria. Reshaping Symbolic Boundaries after Socialism

Sagan, Alexander

• Church-State-Relations After Maidan

Savin, Kyryl

• Maidan 2013 in Kiev: Revolution in People’s Heads

Şahin, Fethi Kurtiy

• Overcoming the Boundaries: Strategies of Cooperation Among Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian Diaspora Groups in Response to the Ukrainian Crisis. The Comparison of Canada and Turkey with Milana Nikolko

Scheide, Carmen

• Popular Culture in Romania and Bulgaria since the 1960s
• Editorial with Ulrich Schmid
• Editorial

Schmid, Ulrich

• Editorial
• Editorial with Carmen Scheide

Schmidt, Henrike

• The Triple P of RuNet Politics: Protest, Political Technology, Public Sphere Revolutionary seasons – Arab Spring and Slavic Winter

Schüler, Sonja

• Street Protests in Sofia: On Environmental Protection and the "Critical Public" in Bulgaria. A Commentary

Sekulić, Aleksandra

• The Cultural Resources of Contemporary Anti-Fascist Resistance

Shelest, Hanna

• Conflict Resolution Trends in the Black Sea Region

Smilianskaya, Yuliana

• The Jews of Ukraine: Past and Present

Sobolieva, Olena

• Landscape, Culture, Identity: Repatriation of Crimean Tatars and the Processes of Constructing the Place

Spassov, Orlin

• Editorial
• Editorial
• New Media and Politics in Bulgaria: Outcome Postponed

Suveică, Svetlana

• Between the Empire and the Nation-State: Metamorphoses of the Bessarabian Elite 1918

Syroyid, Oksana

• The Blood for Yanukovych

Taki, Victor

• 1812 and the Emergence of the Bessarabian Region: Province-Building under Russian Imperial Rule

Toria, Malkhaz

• In Search of Ethnic Roots: Instrumentalisation of the History and Politics of Exclusion in Georgia’s Breakaway Region of Abkhazia 2003-2018

Totok,William

• Reception of the Final Report of the International Commission for Investigation of the Romanian Holocaust ("Wiesel Commission")

Triantaphyllou, Dimitrios

• Editorial
• The Uncertain Times of Black Sea Regional Security

Tsantoulis, Yannis

• Region-building and its Failures: Writing Space, Producing Insecurity

Tsipursky, Gleb

• Fighting Western Fasion in the Soviet Union: The Komsomol, Westernized Youth, and the Cultural Cold War in the Mid 1950s

Tunç, Aslı

• Against the Wind: Internet, Politics and Cyber Activism in Turkey

Tzimitras, Harry 

• Beyond Energy: Remarks about the Direction of Turkish-Russian Relations and Their Implications for the Cyprus Problem with Ayla Gürel

Ursprung, Daniel

• Editorial
• Romanian Communism between Commemoration, Nostalgia, and Scientific Debate

Usach, Andriy

• „Eastern Operation” of OUN(b) and the Anti-Jewish Violence in the Summer 1941: Smotrych and Kupyn Case

Üre, Pinar

• Conditional Welcome: Russian Refugees as a Source of Skilled Labor in Interwar Turkey

Vamling, Karina

• Display Window or Tripwire? The Sochi Winter Games, the Russian Great Power Ideal and the Legitimacy of Vladimir Putin with Bo Petersson

Ventsel, Aimar

• Soviet West: Estonian estrada in the Soviet Union

Volvach, Natalia

• Still Ukrainian or Already Russian? The Linguistic Landscape of Sevastopol in the Aftermath of Crimean Annexation

Voronovich, Alexandr

• Justifying Separatism: The Year 1924, the Establishment of the Moldovan ASSR and History Politics in the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic

Wanner,Catherine

• Editorial
• Orthodoxy and the Future of Secularism After the Maidan

Wolfe, Sven Daniel

• Life On The Ground: A Comparative Analysis of Two Villages in Sochi During Olympic Transformation

Yancheva, Yana

• Rock Subculture In a Small Town – Forms and Strategies of Identification

Yeghiazaryan, Anush

• "The Armenians were the first to Adopt Christianity as the State Religion". The Understanding of Statehood and Collective Symbolism in Armenia

Yarosh, Oleg

• Islam and Muslims in Ukraine After the "Revolution of Dignity": Current Challenges and Perspectives

Zhemukhov, Sufian

• The 2014 Sochi Olympics and Russia’s Civil Society with Robert W. Orttung

Zhuk, Sergei

• Limits of Westernization during Cultural Détente in Provincial Society of Soviet Ukraine: A View from Below

Znepolski, Boyan

• Editorial
• Civil Protest in Bulgaria: the Absent Social Critique

Zubkovych, Alina

• Politics of Cinematic Representation of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: 2003-2018