Pax post-Sovietica? The final end of post-Sovietness
Journal: AREI
Year: 2023

This article argues that use of the terms ʻpost-Soviet states’ or ʻpost-Soviet region’ does more to obscure than to explain anything. Although these terms have become anachronistic and misleading as they suggest a group of countries that still have much in common, they are still used because the area is traditionally and erroneously perceived as a certain whole with shared rules. The disintegration of this territory that has been visible since 1991 is no surprise but indicates a return to the si