Chapter 2 Between the ‘Opening to the West’ and the Trauma of Rebordering
Journal: Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation)
Year: 2022

After the dissolution of the USSR, the new post-Soviet borders became a valuable research laboratory both for social scientists from the region and international scholars. Persisting Soviet legacies, on the one hand, and the continuing re-bordering processes in the post-Soviet space, on the other, make post-Soviet borders an object of enduring scholarly interest and constitute post-Soviet border studies as a specific research field. This chapter outlines the contours of this multidisciplinary fi