Phenomena of Fear
State, Society, Art

Osteuropa 10/2025
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin 2025 [ = Osteuropa, 10/2025]
176 pages, 25 figures
Price: 24,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-5667-1

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Lev Gudkov
  A Theory of Collective Fear
  Causes and Dimensions Using Russia as an Example
• Wolfgang Stephan Kissel
  The Modern City as a Place of Fear
  Agoraphobia in Andrei Belyi’s Petersburg
• Bernd Feuchtner
  Songs of the Night, Nights of Fear
  Fear in the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich
• Jay Winter
  History and Memory
  The Second World War in Europe
• Mark Belorusez
  Translation as a Means of Survival
  Languages and Poetry in Soviet Kyiv
• Katharina Raabe
  Translating and mediating as a way of life
  Laudatory speech for Ilma Rakusa

• World in Turmoil

• Nikolay Mitrokhin
  Russia’s War against Ukraine
  Weekly Reports October-December 2025
• Anna Gevorgyan
  Security Bridge
  Armenia and Iran
• Ina Rumiantseva
  Out of an Impasse
  For a New European Policy on Belarus
• Vakhtang Partsavania
  Cover-up as a Business Model
  Georgia as a Transshipment Hub for Russian Oil
• Marine Chitashvili
  ”This is the end of autonomy in institutions of higher learning”
  The planned education reform in Georgia