Power, not Violence
Taking Steps towards Freedom
Osteuropa 10-11/2020
440 pages, 6 maps, 66 figures
Price: 28,00 €
Deutsche Fassung
Contents
- EditorialVolltext
Nachholende Revolution - Helmut König
Power and violence
Passing remarks on basic principles in Belarus - Astrid Sahm
Political stalemate in Belarus
Stages of a systemic crisis - Roland Götz
State capitalism à la Belarus
A special path, a diversion or a dead end? - Ingo Petz
“The mood is not the same”
Protest and protest culture in Belarus - Uladzimir Lachouski
The white-red-white nation
A brief history of Belarusian state symbols Gewalt statt Macht
- Petra Stykow
The long farewell from Bac’ka
Lukashenka’s popularity and its decline - Maryia Rohava, Fabian Burkhardt
“Dictatorship is our trademark”
Belarus: power vertical vs. horizontal society - Valerij Karbalevič
Power fanatics
Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s worldview and mechanism of rule - The dynamics of repression
Arrests, attacks, judgements
Documentation - Siarhei Bohdan
Monopolists of violence
The police, the secret services and the army in Belarus - Degraded, beaten, tortured
Reports by victims of police violence
Documentation - Christian Ganzer
“Prostitutes” and “fascists” all
Defamation of the protests in Belarus on Telegram Power, not Violence
- Elena Gapova
Mobilisation in Belarus
Class, citizenship, gender - Nikolay Mitrokhin
Between two stools
The Belarusian Orthodox Church - Vol’ha Sjachovič
Gagged by crude power
The media and media policy in Belarus - Olga Šparaga
Vertical or horizontal
On two conflicting social orders - Felix Ackermann
Vertical power structure and horizontal solidarity
The state and the protest in Hrodna 2020 Domestic and Foreign
- Maksim Samorukov
On the hook
Russia and Belarus - Sabine Fischer, Janis Kluge, Astrid Sahm
Sovereignty, subordination, integration
Key issues between Moscow and Minsk - Kai-Olaf Lang
Alarm among the neighbours
The Belarus policy of Poland and Lithuania Micro und Macro
- Alexandra Murphy
From boom to brain drain
The Belarusian IT sector and the regime - Kamil Kłysiński
A poisoned chalice
The Astravets nuclear power station Language and Poetry
- Ilma Rakusa
Tear factory and transformation
Spotlights on contemporary Belarusian poetry - Thomas Weiler
Moving Mova
Belarusian prose in motion Past and Present
- Thomas Bohn
More than war and Chernobyl
Belarus in European contemporary history - Anika Walke
Historical sites as a cypher
The protest movement and the culture of remembrance in Belarus - Sjarhej Novikaǔ, Yuliya von Saal
Stilted commemoration in Belarus
Maly Trostenets, the Holocaust and the culture of remembrance
