Aside from the near-complete devastation of a sovereign state and reversal of the global
balance of power, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is leading to a radical transfor-
mation in the Eastern European and Eurasian regions – including Russia itself.
The 13 chapt
ers in this volume examine the structural consequences of the resurgent
imperialist aspirations of the Russian Federation. The collection offers a compre-
hensive picture of Putin’s Russia, its distinct way of war compared to Ukraine, and
the w
ay it uses propaganda and the falsification of history as an integral part of
hybrid warfare. Using the conceptual tools of analysis developed by the editors in The
Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes (CEU Press, 2020), the authors discuss how the war
is redrawing the geopolitical map as we know it, the reactions to the invasion by
Western countries, Russia’s post-Soviet neighbors and China, and the possibilities and
challenges of Ukraine and Moldova to integrate into the EU.
This collection complements the book entitled Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy and the
Russian Invasion (CEU Press, 2023).
“The Russia-Ukrainian war, which looks to be a tragedy for Ukraine and an institutional
catastrophe for Russia, represents a remarkable event in political history for many
reasons. One of them is that the causes for this war stem from a divergence of the two
countries’ political regimes, which have arisen on the basis of very similar social or-
ders shaped by similar ‘stubborn structures’ and historical experiences... This volume,
based on the tw
o editors’ conceptual framework, offers a unique view on the war by
analyzing its structural consequences for Russia, its political and economic system,
and the geopolitical order that is being shaken by Putin’s imperial endeavor.”
From the Preface by Kirill Rogov, Research Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Bálint Madlovics is a political scientist and economist. He is a Junior Research Fellow
at the CEU Democracy Institute, visiting professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE),
and a doctoral student of Corvinus University of Budapest (BCE).
Bálint Magyar isa sociologist. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the CEU Democracy
Institute. He was an activist of the anti-communist dissident movement before the regime
change, Member of the Hungarian Parliament (1990–2010), and Minister of Education
(1996–1998, 2002–2006). He has been publishing and editing writings on post-communist
regimes since 2013.
Central European University Press
Budapest – Vienna – New York
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RUSSIA’S IMPERIAL ENDEAVOR AND ITS GEOPOLITICAL CONSEQUENCES
edited by Bálint Madlovics
and Bálint Magyar
RUSSIA’S
IMPERIAL
ENDEAVOR AND
ITS GEOPOLITICAL
CONSEQUENCES
edited by
Bálint Madlovics
and Bálint Magyar
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