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 (32) 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? (6) Ardeleanu, Constantin: The Opening and Development of the Black Sea for International Trade and Shipping (1774–1853) (14), Editorial Nations, Nation-States, Trade and Politics in the Black Sea (14) Balistreri, Alexander E.: Editorial with Boris Belge Exchange and Non-Exchange: Confronting Borders in the History of the Black Sea (32) Barova, Vihra: Subcultural Identities - Styles and Ideologies (Subcultural Ways of Life of the Post-Transitional Generation in Bulgaria) (11) Belge, Boris: Between E and U: Alfred Schnittke, Popular Culture and Serious Music in Late Soviet Socialism (1968-1982) (25/26), Editorial with Alexander E. Balistreri Exchange and Non-Exchange: Confronting Borders in the History of the Black Sea (32) Bönker, Kirsten: Watching Television and Emotional Commitment in the Late Soviet Union (25/26) Bounegru,Octavian: The Black Sea Area in the Trade System of the Roman Empire (14) Brindisi, Jennifer: Istanbul: How Turkey’s Cultural Capital Has Shaped Its Foreign Policy (10) Brunova-Kalisetska, Iryna: Instrumentalisation of History or Inclusive Narrative? Regional Policies and Ethnic Memories in Ukraine (29) 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 (22) 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 (32) Cașu, Igor: ”The Quiet Revolution”: Revisiting the National Identity Issue in Soviet Moldavia at the Height of Khrushchev’s Thaw (1956) (15/16) Çelikpala, Mitat: The New Energy Politics of the Black Sea Region (6) Ciocîltan, Virgil with Şerban Papacostea: The Black Sea, the “plaque tournante” of the Euro-Asian Trade during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (14) Charron, Austin: Crimean Tatars’ Postcolonial Condition and Strategies of Cultural Decolonization in Mainland Ukraine (28) Chebotarova, Anna: Memory and Military Conflict: Politics of History and its Societal Perception in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine (29) Cherenkov, Mykhailo: Ukrainian Protestants After Maidan (17) Chornomorets, Yuriy: The Responsibility of Churches During the Ukrainian Crisis (17) Collmer, Peter: Pop and Politics in Late Soviet Society. Final remarks (25/26) Cușco, Andrei: 1878, Before and After: Romanian Nation-Building, Russian Imperial Policies, and Visions of Otherness in Southern Bessarabia (15/16) De Keghel, Isabelle: Seventeen Moments of Spring, a Soviet James Bond Series? Official Discourse, Folklore, and Cold War Culture in Late Socialism (25/26) Denisova-Schmidt,Elena: Corruption and Informal Practices in Russia (7) Denysenko, Larysa: Laws are for “Suckers”, not for “Big Shots” (13) Dobbins, Michael: Post-Rose Revolution Georgia: How Democratization Went Wrong - and Why Authoritarianism also May have Backfired (9), with Mariam Parsadanishvili Statehood, Religion and Strategic Europeanization in the Southern Caucasus. Editorial (9) Dobrincu, Dorin: A Brief History of Romanian Archive Access since 1989 (3) Dominguez Diaz, Marta: Are New Sufis “Grey Turks”? (10) Dorokhina, Olga: Borderlands of Georgian Ukrainians (30) Dovhanych, Natalia: Narrating Trauma: Literary Strategies in Ukrainian Survivor Literature of the Second Half of the 20th Century (27) Druey, Cécile: Editorial with Eliane Fitzé (29); History as a Means of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in the North Caucasus/Chechnya (29) Dumitru, Diana: How Bessarabians Were Perceived by the Romanian Civilian-Military Administration in 1941(15/16); Editorial with Petru Negura Moldova: A Borderland‘s Fluid History (15/16) Eskenasy, Victor: Perceptions of the Holocaust in Contemporary Romania: Between Film and Television (1) Feigelson, Kristian: Soviet Television and Popular Mass Culture in the 1960s (25/26) Fellner, Astrid: Ukrainian Canadian B/Orders: Culinary Remembrances and Queer Bordercrossings in Marusya Bociurkiw’s Food Was Her Country (30) Fielding, Heather: Marina Lewycka, Women’s Work, and the Figure of the Ukrainian Woman as Economic Migrant (30) Fitzé, Eliane: Editorial with Cécile Druey (29) Forestier-Peyrat, Etienne: Enemy Shores? The Dilemmas of Writing Cold War Histories of the Black Sea (32) Gheorghica, Nela: Romanian Cinematography and Film Culture during the Communist Regime (11) Grelka, Frank with Yuri Radchenko: Editorial. Towards a Historiography from the Bottom up – Studies on Genocide and Survival in Modern Ukrainian History (27) Grätz, Jonas: Energy and Integration in the Black Sea Region. Editorial (18) Gürel, Ayla co-authored with Harry Tzimitras: Beyond Energy: Remarks about the Direction of Turkish-Russian Relations and Their Implications for the Cyprus Problem (18) Hamiti, Xhabir: Islam in Kosovo - the Current State of Affairs and the Way Ahead (23) Hausleitner, Mariana: The Cult of Antonescu and the Delayed Reappraisal of the Romanian Holocaust (1) Havryshko, Marta: Women’s Body as Battlefield: Sexual Violence during Soviet Сounterinsurgency in Western Ukraine in the 1944-1953 (27) Hofmann, Tatjana: Ways of Life at a Crossroads. Aksënöv's Ostrov Krym (Island of Crimea) (25/26) Horokh, Mykola: A Chance for Survival: Trapped within the Confrontation between Unified State Political Department and Torgsin (27) Hotopp-Riecke, Mieste with Dominik Jakub Napiwodzki: Crimean Tatar Diaspora and Cultural Identity between “Yeşil ada”, Poland and Germany: History, Structures, Reflections (28) 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 (13) Jilge, Wilfried: Between ‘Mother Homeland’ and Saint Mary: The Independence Monument on the Maidan in Kiev (17) Jung, Martin: The Official Condemnation of Communism in Romania and its Repercussions (3) Kalkadijeva, Daniela: The Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the Cold War (8) Karagiannis, Evangelos: The Pomaks in Bulgaria and Greece: Comparative Remarks (8) Khamidov, Alisher: Islam in Kyrgyzstan since 1991 (23) Khromeychuk, Olesya: Instrumentalisation of War History in Contemporary Memory Politics in Ukraine. A Gender Perspective (29) King Savić, Sandra: Islam in Central Asia and Southeastern Europe. Editorial (23), Serbia’s Sandžak: Caught Between Two Islamic Communities (23) Klimenko, Ekaterina V.: Towards Forgetting: Russia’s Account of the Stalinist Repression Before and After the Ukraine Crisis (29) Kobchenko, Kateryna: Ukrainian emigration to Germany after WWII: Formation and Self-Representation of a Transnational Community (1945–1991) (30) Kratochvil, Alexander: The Writers and the Maidan (13), Editorial Ukrainian - Crimean-Tatar Socio-Cultural Encounters (28), Considering Slavia Islamica and Ukraine (28) Kube, Stefan: Religion and Society in contemporary Bulgaria. Editorial (8) Kurshutov, Timur: Cultural and Literary Relations between Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars (28) Lashchuk, Iuliia: Bord(h)ers. Why gender matters in migration and art? (30) Lazzerini, Edward J.: Knowledge, Sentiment, and the Fantasy of Empire: Some Thoughts on Russia and its Encounters with Crimea (28) Liakova, Marina: The Turkish minority in Bulgaria (8) Lugarić Vukas, Danijela: Living vnye: The example of Bulat Okudzhava's and Vladimir Vysotskii's avtorskaia pesnia (25/26) Macarie, Julius-Cezar: Invisivle Denizens: What Possibilities are Left for Solidarity Amongst Migrant Night Workers in the Nocturnal City of London (22) Maeva, Mila: UK Policy Towards Bulgarians and Stereotypes about them since 1989 (22) Manolova, Polina: Looking Beyond the Public Discourses on Migration: Experiences of Bulgarians and Romanians in the UK [Editorial]; From European 'Free-movers' to Circular Labourers: Bulgarian Migration Experiences to the UK and Back (22) Marinov, Tchavdar: National Myths in Post-Communist Bulgaria and Their Criticism (2) Marynovych, Myroslav: “Being a Church” During Times of Crisis (17 Mattingly, Daria: No Novel for the Ordinary Men? Representation of the Rank-and-File Perpetrators of the Holodomor in Ukrainian Novels (27) Mirzayev, Razim: Islamists in Azerbaijan: How Dangerous are they? (9) Mitrokhin, Nikolay: Was There an Alternative? Metropolitan Bishop Onuphrius and His First Steps (17) Mujadižević, Dino: Turkey's role in Bosnia and Herzogovina (23) Mukhina, Irina: Soviet Port Cities and Consumerism in the 1070s and '80s (25/26) Müller, Martin: Sochi and the 2014 Olympics: Game over? (12) Murgescu, Mirela-Luminița: Romanian Perceptions of Communism (3) Musteată, Sergiu: 1991: A Chronology of Moldova’s Independance (15/16) Nanay, Julia: Gas Landscape in the Black Sea Transformed: Ukraine’s Role Challenged by Russia (18) Napiwodzki, Dominik Jakub with Mieste Hotopp-Riecke: Crimean Tatar Diaspora and Cultural Identity between “Yeşil ada”, Poland and Germany: History, Structures, Reflections (28) Narizhna, Victoria: EuroMaidan in Dnipropetrovsk: Problems and Peculiarities (13) Negură,Petru: From a ‘Liberation’ to Another. The Bessarabian Writers During the First Year of Soviet Power (1940-1941): Integration Strategies and Forms of Exclusion (15/16); Editorial with Diana Dumitru Moldova: A Borderland‘s Fluid History (15/16) 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 (30) Omelicheva, Mariya: Instrumentalization of Islam in Central Asia: Using Religion for Legitimizing the Governing Regimes (23) Öner, Selcen: Soft Power in Turkish Foreign Policy: New Instruments and Challenges (10) Orttung, Robert W. with Sufian Zhemukhov: The 2014 Sochi Olympics and Russia’s Civil Society (12) Ostapchuk, Tetyana: Editorial (30) Ostrovs‘kyj, Pavlo: EuroMaidan in Lviv: a View From the Inside (13) Özcelik,Yusuf: The Development and Establishment of Political Identity in the Republic of Azerbaijan (9) Öztürk, Erdi: Delectation or Hegemony: Turkey's Religious Actors in South Eastern Europe and Central Asia (23) Papailias, Penelope: Reporting as an Act of Citizenship: The Net, the News and the Greek „Crisis“ (5) Papacostea, Şerban together with Virgil Ciocîltan: The Black Sea, the “plaque tournante” of the Euro-Asian Trade during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (14) Parsadanishvili, Mariam with Michael Dobbins: Statehood, Religion and Strategic Europeanization in the Southern Caucasus (9) Persson,Emil: Tears in the Patchwork: The Sochi Olympics and the Display of a Multiethnic Nation (12) Petersson, Bo with Karina Vamling: Display Window or Tripwire? The Sochi Winter Games, the Russian Great Power Ideal and the Legitimacy of Vladimir Putin (12) Portnov, Andriy: EuroMaidan: Context and Meanings (13) Roberts, John: The Southern Gas Corridor and the Challenge of Turkish Stream (18) Rousselin, Mathieu: Turkish Soap Power: International Perspectives and Domestic Paradoxes (10) Rugaru, Nadege: Voting for the Xenophobic Party “Ataka” in Bulgaria. Reshaping Symbolic Boundaries after Socialism (2) Sagan, Alexander: Church-State-Relations After Maidan (17) Savin, Kyryl: Maidan 2013 in Kiev: Revolution in People’s Heads (13) 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 (30) Scheide, Carmen: Popular Culture in Romania and Bulgaria since the 1960s (11); Editorial with Ulrich Schmid: The EuroMaidan in Ukraine November 2013 till February 2014 (13); Editorial (25/26) Schmid, Ulrich: Corruption and Informal Practices in Russia. Ediotrial (7) Schmidt, Henrike: The Triple P of RuNet Politics: Protest, Political Technology, Public Sphere Revolutionary seasons – Arab Spring and Slavic Winter (4) Schüler, Sonja: Street Protests in Sofia: On Environmental Protection and the “Critical Public” in Bulgaria. A Commentary (8) Sekulić, Aleksandra: The Cultural Resources of Contemporary Anti-Fascist Resistance (29) Shelest,Hanna: Conflict Resolution Trends in the Black Sea Region (6) Smilianskaya, Yuliana: The Jews of Ukraine: Past and Present (17) Sobolieva, Olena: Landscape, Culture, Identity: Repatriation of Crimean Tatars and the Processes of Constructing the Place (27) Spassov, Orlin: New Media and Politics in Bulgaria: Outcome Postponed (5), Internet and Politics in Russia. Editorial (4), Citizenship, Activism and Mobilization: Internet Politics in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. Editorial (5) Suveică, Svetlana: Between the Empire and the Nation-State: Metamorphoses of the Bessarabian Elite (1918) (15/16) Syroyid, Oksana: The Blood For Yanukovych (13) Taki, Victor: 1812 and the Emergence of the Bessarabian Region: Province-Building under Russian Imperial Rule (15/16) Toria, Malkhaz: In Search of Ethnic Roots: Instrumentalisation of the History and Politics of Exclusion in Georgia’s Breakaway Region of Abkhazia 2003-2018 (29) Totok,William: Reception of the Final Report of the International Commission for Investigation of the Romanian Holocaust (“Wiesel Commission”) (1) Triantaphyllou, Dimitrios: The Complexities of Black Sea Regional Security. Editorial (6), The Uncertain Times of Black Sea Regional Security (6) Tsantoulis, Yannis: Region-building and its Failures: Writing Space, Producing Insecurity (6) Tsipursky, Gleb: Fighting Western Fasion in the Soviet Union: The Komsomol, Westernized Youth, and the Cultural Cold War in the Mid 1950s (25/26) Tunç, Aslı: Against the Wind: Internet, Politics and Cyber Activism in Turkey (5) Tzimitras, Harry co-authored with Ayla Gürel: Beyond Energy: Remarks about the Direction of Turkish-Russian Relations and Their Implications for the Cyprus Problem (18) Ursprung, Daniel: Romania and the Holocaust: Delicate Reappraisal of a Fateful Past. Editorial (1), Romanian Communism between Commemoration, Nostalgia, and Scientific Debate (3) Usach, Andriy: „Eastern Operation” of OUN(b) and the Anti-Jewish Violence in the Summer 1941: Smotrych and Kupyn Case (27) Üre, Pinar: Conditional Welcome: Russian Refugees as a Source of Skilled Labor in Interwar Turkey (32) Vamling, Karina with Bo Petersson: Display Window or Tripwire? The Sochi Winter Games, the Russian Great Power Ideal and the Legitimacy of Vladimir Putin (12) Ventsel, Aimar: Soviet West: Estonian estrada in the Soviet Union (25/26) Volvach, Natalia: Still Ukrainian or Already Russian? The Linguistic Landscape of Sevastopol in the Aftermath of Crimean Annexation (28) Voronovich, Alexandr: Justifying Separatism: The Year 1924, the Establishment of the Moldovan ASSR and History Politics in the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (15/16) Wanner,Catherine: Orthodoxy and the Future of Secularism After the Maidan (17); Editorial Religion and Political Crisis in Ukraine (17) Wolfe, Sven Daniel: Life On The Ground: A Comparative Analysis of Two Villages in Sochi During Olympic Transformation (12) Yancheva, Yana: Rock Subculture In a Small Town – Forms and Strategies of Identification (11) Yeghiazaryan, Anush: “The Armenians were the first to Adopt Christianity as the State Religion” The Understanding of Statehood and Collective Symbolism in Armenia (9) Yarosh, Oleg: Islam and Muslims in Ukraine After the “Revolution of Dignity”: Current Challenges and Perspectives (17) Zhemukhov, Sufian with Robert W. Orttung: The 2014 Sochi Olympics and Russia’s Civil Society (12) Zhuk, Sergei: Limits of Westernization during Cultural Détente in Provincial Society of Soviet Ukraine: A View from Below (25/26) Znepolski, Boyan: Civil Protest in Bulgaria: the Absent Social Critique (2), Negotiating „Nation“ and „Society“: The Public Sphere in Post-Communist Bulgaria. Editorial (2) Zubkovych, Alina: Politics of Cinematic Representation of Crimean Tatars in Ukraine: 2003-2018 (28)