Phenomena of Fear
Tyranny and Its Consequences

Osteuropa 7/2026
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel
Berlin 2026 [ = Osteuropa, 7/2026]
192 pages, 7 figures
Price: 24,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-5687-9

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Regimes of Fear
  Editorial
• Svetlana Aleksievič
  Waiting for the New Barbarians
• Maxim Znak
  Most Important
• Svetlana Aleksievič
  “Everyone Has Grown Accustomed to the Fear”
  on Dictatorship and Violence in Belarus
• Steffen Kailitz
  Lev Gudkov’s Grammar of Fear
  Repression, Atomisation, and Rule under Putinism
• Helmut König
  “Fear is the Principle of Tyranny”
  Lev Gudkov’s “Theory of Fear”
• Judith Eckert, Kai-Olaf Maiwald
  Measuring Anxiety
  A Hermeneutic Analysis of Structures of Meaning in Survey Instruments
• Anne Hartmann
  Fear as a Driving Force and Blockade
  German “Cultural Cadres” in the Grip of Stalinism
• Irina Rastorgueva
  Dictatorship and Fear
  Metastases of Violence in Putin’s Russia
• Monica Rüthers
  Global City and Authoritarian Urbanism
  Moscow in the Focus of Urban Studies
• Nikolay Mitrokhin
  Russia’s War against Ukraine
  July 2026 to September 2026
• Vakhtang Partsvania
  War Profits
  Georgia’s Economic Relations with Russia

• Georgische (Ab)gründe

• Nino Doborjginidze, Giga Zedania
  Administrative Strangulation
  Academic Freedom in Georgia and European Responsibility