Mole, R.C.M. (ed.) (2019) Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities. London: Routledge
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Despite Soviet Russia having been one of the first major powers to decriminalise homosexual acts between men, attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in contemporary Russia and the other post-Soviet states have become increasingly hostile, with the introduction of laws restricting their rights and an increase in homophobic violence. This book explores how this situation has come about. It discusses how meanings attached to non-heteronormative sexualities have been constructed for specific socio-political purposes by elites in line with Marxist-Leninist or nationalist thought, explores how attitudes to non-normative sexualities developed historically and examines the current situation in the post-Soviet space, including Russia, Transcaucasia, Central Asia and the Baltic States. The book provides a wealth of detail on this understudied subject and assesses how LGBT subjects are responding to this state of affairs.
‘I found the recently published volume Soviet and Post-Soviet Sexualities … extremely timely, useful and full of insight.’
Mohira Suyarkulova, Feminist Review
Mole, R.C.M. (2012) The Baltic States from the Soviet Union to the European Union. London: Routledge
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The post-communist experience of the Baltic States allows us to examine debates about identity as a source of political power; the conditioning and constraining influence of identity discourses on social, political and economic change; and the orientation and outcome of their external relations. In particular, it examines the impact of Russian and Soviet control of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; the Baltic independence movements of the late 1980s/early 1990s; the citizenship debates; relations with Russia vis-à-vis the withdrawal of the troops of the former Soviet Army; drawing of the shared boundary and the rights of Russian-speaking minorities as well as the efforts undertaken by the three Baltic States to rebuild themselves, modernise their economies, cope with the ensuing social changes and facilitate their accession to the EU and NATO.
‘Mole’s work provides a compelling discussion that deepens our knowledge of European security and identity politics and the theoretic and empirical implications offer scholars at any level a range of issues for further research.’
James Whibley, Europe-Asia Studies
Mole, R.C.M. (ed.) (2007) Discursive Constructions of Identity in European Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
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This volume brings together specialists from a range of disciplines to discuss the discursive construction of ethnic, national and regional identities and analyse how specific identity discourses condition and constrain knowledge and action with regard to various socio-political issues in Europe.
'The volume provides important critical theoretical insights into the state of the art of the problematic identity concept in social sciences.'
Bo Strath, Nations and Nationalism