Goodbye Post-Soviet Space?

Putting the State Together Again and External Assistance: Losses or Gains? More than two decades after the collapse of the USSR, the phrase “the post-Soviet space” is still widely used in expert and political discourse, despite attempts to replace it with another definition” [1] such as the “Newly Independent States” or “Eurasia”. At first glance, the concept of the “post-Soviet space” is firmly tied to the idea of a state of transition. It records a reality that emerged after the disintegration...