The Berkeley Program in Eurasian and East European Studies publishes working papers by Berkeley faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars. BPS Working Papers are available below in PDF format. Print copies of the working papers may be purchased from BPS, subject to availability. To enquire about a specific working paper, you may contact BPS at bsp[at]berkeley.edu. BPS Working Papers are also included in the California Digital Library's eScholarship Repository. 

BPS Working Paper Series

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Summer 2009. Brandon Schechter. "The Language of the Sword": Aleksandr Bek, The Writers Union and Baurdzhan Momysh-uly in Battle for the memory of Volokolamskoe shosse. [2009 08-Shechter.pdf] 50 pages, 246KB.

Summer 2009. Robia Charles. Religiosity and Trust in Religious Institutions: Tales from the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). [2009-08-Charles] 45 pages, 382KB.

Summer 2009. Polina Dimova. The Poet of Fire: Aleksandr Skriabin’s Synaesthetic Symphony “Prometheus” and the Russian Symbolist Poetics of Light. [2009-08-Dimova] 54 pages, 465KB.

Summer 2009. Helaine Blumenthal. Communism on Trial: The Slansky Affair and Anti-Semitism in Post-WWII Europe. [2009-08-Blumenthal] 43 pages, 212KB.

Spring 2009. James Krapfl. Civic Forum, Public Against Violence, and the Struggle for Slovakia. [2009-08-Krapfl] 33 pages, 429KB.

Summer 2008. Erik R. Scott. The Nineteenth-Century Russian Gypsy Choir and the Performance of Otherness. [2008-08-Scott] 62 pages, 202 KB

Summer 2008. Jennifer Utrata. Babushki as Surrogate Wives: How Single Mothers and Grandmothers Negotiate the Division of Labor in Russia. [2008_08-utrata] 42 pages, 112 KB

Summer 2008. Cinzia Solari. Between “Europe” and “Africa”: Building the “New” Ukraine on the Shoulders of Migrant Women. [2008_08-solari] 39 pages, 120KB

Summer 2008. Alexis Peri. Heroes, Cowards, & Traitors: The Crimean War & its Challenge to Russian Autocracy. [2008_08-peri] 50 pages, 220 KB

Spring 2008. Sener Akturk. 15 Years after the “Collapse” of Soviet Socialism: The Role of Elite Choices, Class Conflict, and a Critique of Modernization Theory. [2008_02-akturk] 32 pages, 98 KB

Fall 2007. Tobias Holzlehner. Weaving Shuttles and Ginseng Roots: Commodity Flows and Migration in a Borderland of the Russian Far East. [Holzlehner-fall07.pdf] 48 pages, 307 KB

Summer 2007. Lussier, Danielle. The Nature of Mass Communist Beliefs in Postcommunist Russian Political Space. [Lussier sum 07.pdf] 46 pages, 397 KB

Summer 2007. Tanny, Jarrod. The Many Ends of Old Odessa: Memories of the Gilded Age in Russia’s City of Sin. [2007_tanny.pdf] 30 pages, 170 KB

Fall 2006. Lussier, Danielle. From Solidarity to Division: An Analysis of Lech Walesa's Transition to Constituted Leadership [2006_02-luss.pdf] 39 pages, 272 KB

Spring 2006. Walker, Edward W. Ethnic War, Holy War, War O' War: Does the Adjective Matter in Explaining Collective Political Violence? [2006_01-walk.pdf] 47 pages, 302 KB

Spring 2005. Zavisca, Jane and Michael Hout. Does Money Buy Happiness in Unhappy Russia? [2005_01-zavi.pdf] 65 pages, 362 KB

Fall 2004. Khudonazar, Anaita. The Other. [2004_05-khud.pdf] 25 pages, 251 KB

Fall 2004. Sanikidze, George and Edward W. Walker. Islam and Islamic Practices in Georgia. [2004_04-sani.pdf] 40 pages, 294 KB

Spring 2004. Vujacic, Veljko. Reexamining the "Serbian Exceptionalism" Thesis. [2004_03-vuja.pdf] 45 pages, 222 KB

Spring 2004. Spector, Regine A. The Transformation of Askar Akaev, President of Kyrgyzstan. [2004_02-spec.pdf] 37 pages, 191 KB

Spring 2004. Suny, Ronald Grigor. Why We Hate You: The Passions of National Identity and Ethnic Violence. [2004_01-suny.pdf] 52 pages, 233 KB

Spring 2003. Naumkin, Vitaly V. Militant Islam in Central Asia: The Case of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. [2003_06-naum.pdf] 71 pages, 282 KB

Spring 2003. Shaw, Emily. The Role of Social Identity in Resistance to International Criminal Law: The Case of Serbia and the ICTY. [2003_05-shaw.pdf] 33 pages, 189 KB

Spring 2003. Blank, Diana R. Fairytale Cynicism in the Kingdom of Plastic Bags: Mapping Power and Powerlessness in Chelnochovsk-na-Dniestre, Ukraine. [2003_04-blan.pdf] 23 pages, 372 KB

Spring 2003. Ishkanian, Armine. Is the Personal Political? The Development of Armenia's NGO Sector During the Post-Soviet Period. [2003_03-ishk.pdf] 37 pages, 303 KB

April 2003. Abrams, Neil A. Nationalist Mobilization and Imperial Collapse: Serbian and Russian Nationalism Compared, 1987-1991. [2003_02-abra.pdf] 48 pages, 205 KB

January 2003. Peskin, Victor and Mieczyslaw Boduszynski. Croatia's Moments of Truth: The Domestic Politics of State Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. [2003_01-pesk.pdf] 45 pages, 309 KB

Spring 2002. Kurtsikidze, Shorena and Vakhtang Chikovani. Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: An Ethnographic Survey. [2002_03-kurt.pdf] 45 pages, 430 KB

Spring 2002. Wertheim, Suzanne. Language "Purity" and the De-Russification of Tatar. [2002_02-wert.pdf] 28 pages, 524 KB

Spring 2002. O'Dwyer, Conor. Civilizing the State Bureaucracy: The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Administration Reform in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic (1990-2000). [2002_01-odwy.pdf] 44 pages, 476 KB

Spring 2001. Kesler, Christel D. Inequality in Transition? Educational Stratification and German Unification. [2001_04-kesl.pdf] 47 pages, 288 KB

Spring 2001. Henry, Laura. The Greening of Grassroots Democracy? The Russian Environmental Movement, Foreign Aid, and Democratization. [2001_03-henr.pdf] 31 pages, 202 KB

Spring 2001. McGuire, Elizabeth. China, the Fun House Mirror: Soviet Reactions to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969. [2001_02-mcgu.pdf] 40 pages, 249 KB

Spring 2001. Pop-Eleches, Grigore. Whither Democracy? The Politics of Dejection in the 2000 Romanian Elections. [2001_01-pope.pdf] 24 pages, 175 KB

Winter 2000-2001. Astourian, Stephan H. From Ter-Petrosian to Kocharian: Leadership Change in Armenia. [2000_04-asto.pdf] 64 pages, 711 KB

Winter 1999-2000. Walker, Edward W. Russia's Soft Underbelly: The Stability of Instability in Dagestan. [2000_03-walk.pdf] 50 pages, 1,084 KB

Winter 1999-2000. State Building and the Reconstruction of Shattered Societies. 1999 Caucasus Conference Report. [2000_02-conf.pdf] 49 pages, 1,018 KB

Winter 1999-2000. Alieva, Leila. Reshaping Eurasia: Foreign Policy Stategies and Leadership Assets in Post-Soviet South Caucasus. [2000_01-alie.pdf] 32 pages, 459 KB

Summer 1999. Ram, Harsha. Prisoners of the Caucasus: Literary Myths and Media Representations of the Chechen Conflict. [1999_01-ram.pdf] 33 pages, 487 KB

Fall 1998. Bonnell, Victoria and George Breslauer. Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies. [1998_03-bonn.pdf] 33 pages, 392 KB

Summer 1998. The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas, and Ecology in the Caucasus and Caspian Basin. 1998 Caucasus Conference Report. [1998_02-conf.pdf] 110 pages, 1,381 KB

Summer 1998. Abrahamian, Levon Hm. Mother Tongue: Linguistic Nationalism and the Cult of Translation in Postcommunist Armenia. [1998_01-abra.pdf] 29 pages, 456 KB

Winter 1997-1998. Nodia, Ghia. Causes and Visions of Conflict in Abkhazia. [1997_02-nodi.pdf] 55 pages, 498 KB

Fall 1997. Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and Its Implications for the Caucasus. 1997 Caucasus Conference Report. [1997_01-conf.pdf] 102 pages, 1,010 KB