Alexander J. Motyl

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Alexander J. Motyl

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#715

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#305

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Alexander J. Motyl

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#2598

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Alexander J. Motyl's Degrees

PhD Political Science Columbia University
Masters Political Science Columbia University
Bachelors Political Science Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Alexander John Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator and artist-painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

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Imagined Communities, Rational Choosers, Invented Ethnies (2002) (146)
Imperial Ends:The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (2001) (123)
Nations in Transit, 1998: Civil Society, Democracy and Markets in East Central Europe and the Newly Independent States (2000) (99)
Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianism (1993) (75)
Revolutions, nations, empires : conceptual limits and theoretical possibilities (1999) (71)
Sovietology, rationality, nationality : coming to grips with nationalism in the USSR (1990) (70)
The turn to the right : the ideological origins and development of Ukrainian nationalism, 1919-1929 (1981) (67)
Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities: History and Comparison in the Study of the USSR (1995) (48)
Encyclopedia of nationalism (2001) (46)
Putin's Russia as a fascist political system (2016) (38)
The Soviet Union under Gorbachev@@@Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR: A Survey of Former Soviet Citizens@@@Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR (1989) (31)
Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective (1999) (28)
The social construction of social construction: implications for theories of nationalism and identity formation (2010) (23)
The Post-Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the USSR (1992) (23)
Structural Constraints and Starting Points: The Logic of Systemic Change in Ukraine and Russia (1997) (22)
Is Everything Empire? Is Empire Everything? (2006) (20)
“Sovietology in One Country” or Comparative Nationality Studies? (1989) (15)
Russia's Engagement with the West: Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century (2004) (14)
Concepts and Skocpol: Ambiguity and Vagueness in the Study of Revolution (1992) (10)
The surrealism of realism: Misreading the war in Ukraine (2015) (10)
The Sources of Russian Conduct (2014) (9)
Empire Falls: Washington May Be Imperious, but It Is Not Imperial (2006) (8)
Putin's Zugzwang: the Russia-Ukraine standoff (2014) (8)
Lights Out for the Putin Regime (2016) (8)
Three years after. Theoretical reflections on Ukraine's Orange Revolution (2008) (6)
Workers' rights, East and West : a comparative study of trade union and workers' rights in Western democracies and Eastern Europe (1980) (5)
Fascistoid Russia: Whither Putin's brittle realm? (2012) (4)
Alexander Motyl: The End of Ideology? (1989) (4)
The Key to Kiev (2009) (4)
Can Ukraine Have a History? (2010) (3)
Anne Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. (2018) (3)
Viacheslav Lypyns’kyi and the Ideology and Politics of Ukrainian Monarchism (1985) (3)
Restructuring Post-Communist Russia: Communist legacies and new trajectories: Democracy and dictatorship in the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe (2004) (3)
Thinking About Empire (2018) (3)
How Western Anticorruption Policy Is Failing Ukraine (2018) (3)
Yanukovych's Choice (2013) (3)
Is Putin Rational (2014) (3)
Why is the “KGB Bar” possible? Binary morality and its consequences (2010) (3)
Reassessing the Soviet Crisis: Big Problems, Muddling Through, Business as Usual (1989) (2)
Russia, ukraine, and the west: What are america’s interests? (1996) (2)
The Conceptual President: Leonid Kravchuk and the Politics of Surrealism (2019) (2)
Reifying Boundaries, Fetishizing the Nation: Soviet Legacies and Élite Legitimacy in the Post‐Soviet States (2001) (2)
The Rural Origins of the Communist and Nationalist Movements in Wolyn Województwo, 1921-1939 (1978) (2)
Negating the Negation: Russia, Not-Russia, and The West (1994) (2)
Will the Non-Russians Rebel? (2020) (2)
The West Should Arm Ukraine (2015) (2)
National Memory in Ukraine (2016) (2)
Counterrevolution in Kiev: Hope fades for Ukraine (2011) (1)
Fascistoid Russia: Putin's political system in comparative context (2012) (1)
When Ukraine Lost Donetsk (2015) (1)
Yanukovych Must Go (2013) (1)
Identity crisis in the Soviet west (1989) (1)
The paradoxes of Paul Robert Magocsi: the case for Rusyns and the logical necessity of Ukrainians (2011) (1)
Putin's Trap (2014) (1)
Counterrevolution in Kiev (2011) (1)
War Comes to Ukraine (2014) (1)
Ukraine's Promising Path to Reform (2018) (1)
Institutional Legacies and Systemic Transfonnation in Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Russia, and the European Union (2005) (1)
Uzbekistan (2019) (0)
Five More Years of Yanukovych (2012) (0)
Rational Choosers, Invented Ethnies (2008) (0)
Georgia (2020) (0)
How Empires Rise and Fall: Nation, nationalism, and Imperial Elites (1995) (0)
Scholarly Literature [selected pages] (2016) (0)
Bulgaria (2020) (0)
Poland (2020) (0)
Lithuania (2020) (0)
NI online's continuing Russia coverage (2007) (0)
The Russian elections: NI online's continuing coverage (2007) (0)
Macedonia (2020) (0)
Trump and Putin's Game Theory (2017) (0)
Russia (2020) (0)
Slovakia (2020) (0)
Yugoslavia (2020) (0)
Political reform and the Soviet state (1989) (0)
Ireland and Ukraine: studies in comparative imperial and national history (2023) (0)
The Dilemmas of Sovietology and the Labyrinth of Theory (2019) (0)
Azerbaijan (2020) (0)
Ukraine's Next 25 Years (2016) (0)
Putin's Play (2014) (0)
A Grand Strategy for Ukraine (2016) (0)
Latvia (2020) (0)
The Sobering of Gorbachev: Nationality, Restructuring, and the West (2019) (0)
Estonia (2020) (0)
Will Putin’s reign last? (2016) (0)
The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941 (2016) (0)
Alexander Motyl: The Demise of Soviet Language (1990) (0)
We get what we deserve [15] (2006) (0)
Part I: Morning Session: The View from Above (1989) (0)
Kyrgyz Republic (2018) (0)
Croatia (2020) (0)
Bosnia & Herzegovina (2020) (0)
Hungary (2020) (0)
Romania (2020) (0)
Moldova (2004) (0)
Slovenia (2020) (0)
Ukraine, Europe, and Russia: Exclusion or dependence? (2013) (0)
Nations in Transit 2001 (2020) (0)
Part I: Morning Session The View from Above (1990) (0)
Czech Republic (2020) (0)
Is Losing Crimea a Loss (2014) (0)
Kiev's Purge (2015) (0)
[Sneddon syndrome--case report]. (1998) (0)
Ukraine (2020) (0)

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