08.09.2016
Kennan Cable No.18: How “The State” Survived the Collapse of the Soviet Union
A quarter century after the demise of the Soviet Union, the term “post-Soviet” continues to be used as a general tag for the remains of an empire. Russia often talks of reviving the Soviet space, even if its search for economic integration (the Eurasian Economic Union) and military partners (the Collective Security Treaty Organization) has failed to reach critical mass amongst the former Soviet republics. Yet outside the Baltic States, who eschewed ties with the former Soviet Union and definitively left for the European Union in 2004, the “post-Soviet” label retains its relevance in large part because the country’s former members still share a common political legacy: the unified state.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/kennan-cable-no18-how-the-state-survived-the-collapse-the-soviet-union
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