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The break-up of the Soviet Union is a key event of the twentieth century. The 39th IIS congress in Yerevan 2009 focused on causes and consequences of this event and on shifts in the world order that followed in its wake. This volume is an effort to chart these developments in empirical and conceptual terms. It has a focus on the lands of the former Soviet Union but also explores pathways and contexts in the Second World at large. The Soviet Union was a full scale experiment in creating an alternative modernity. The implosion of this union gave rise to new states in search of national identity. At a time when some observers heralded the end of history, there was a rediscovery of historical legacies and a search for new paths of development across the former Second World. In some parts of this world long-repressed legacies were rediscovered. They were sometimes, as in the case of countries in East Central Europe, built around memories of parliamentary democracy and its replacement by authoritarian rule during the interwar period. Some legacies referred to efforts at establishing statehood in the wake of the First World War, others to national upheavals in the nineteenth century and earlier. In Central Asia and many parts of the Caucasus the cultural heritage of Islam in its different varieties gave rise to new markers of identity but also to violent contestations. In South Caucasus, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan have embarked upon distinctly different, but invariably contingent, paths of development. Analogously core components of the old union have gone through tumultuous, but until the last year and a half largely bloodless, transformations. The crystallization of divergent paths of development in the two largest republics of that union, id est Russia and Ukraine, has ushered in divergent national imaginations but also in series of bloody confrontations.

Post-communism --- Social change --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Former communist countries --- Former Soviet bloc --- Second world (Former communist countries) --- Communist countries --- Social conditions.

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330.541 --- 333.111.0 --- Staatssocialisme. --- Algemeenheden. Theoretische en beschrijvende studies. Centrale banken. --- Private finance --- Staatssocialisme --- Algemeenheden. Theoretische en beschrijvende studies. Centrale banken --- Banks and banking, Central --- Post-communism --- Economic aspects. --- Former Soviet republics --- Former communist countries --- Economic policy. --- Banks and banking, Central - Former Soviet republics --- Banks and banking, Central - Former communist countries --- Post-communism - Economic aspects --- Former Soviet republics - Economic policy --- Former communist countries - Economic policy

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Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform post communist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. Juliet Johnson conducted more than 160 interviews in seventeen countries with central bankers, international assistance providers, policymakers, and private-sector finance professionals over the course of fifteen years. She argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated post communist central bankers into its network, shaped their ideas about the role of central banks, and helped them develop modern tools of central banking. Johnson's detailed comparative studies of central bank development in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan take readers from the birth of the campaign in the late 1980's to the challenges faced by central bankers after the global financial crisis. As the comfortable certainties of the past collapse around them, today's central bankers in the post communist world and beyond find themselves torn between allegiance to their transnational community and its principles on the one hand and their increasingly complex and politicized national roles on the other. Priests of Prosperity will appeal to a diverse audience of scholars in political science, finance, economics, geography, and sociology as well as to central bankers and other policymakers interested in the future of international finance, global governance, and economic development.

Banks and banking, Central --- Banks and banking, Central --- Post-communism --- Economic aspects. --- Former Soviet republics --- Former communist countries --- Economic policy. --- Economic policy. --- globalization, international finance, European Union, diffusion, international political economy, global financial crisis.

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Catholic Church --- Foreign relations --- Vatican Council --- Bachikan Kōkaigi --- Concile œcuménique Vatican --- Concile Vatican --- Concilio ecumenico vaticano --- Concilio Vaticano --- Concilium Vaticanum --- Majmaʻ al-Maskūnī al-Vātīkānī --- Sobór Watykański --- Vaticà II (Council) --- Vatican 2 (Council) --- Vatican Ecumenical Council --- Vatican II (Council) --- Vaticano II (Council) --- Vaticanum 2 (Council) --- Vaticanum II (Council) --- Vatikan 2 (Council) --- Vatikan II (Council) --- Vatikaneios Synodos --- Vatikanisches Konzil --- Vatikano susirinkimas --- Vatikanski cerkveni zbor --- Vatikánsky koncil --- Vatikanum (Council) --- Vatykansʹkyĭ Sobor --- Vselensʹkyĭ Sobor Vatykansʹkyĭ --- Concile du Vatican --- Communist countries --- Iron curtain lands --- Russian satellites --- Second world (Communist countries) --- Soviet bloc --- Former communist countries --- Catholic Church. --- 262.5*312 --- 262.5*312 Vaticanum II:--verloop; geschiedenis; organisatie; inmenging van buitenaf --- Vaticanum II:--verloop; geschiedenis; organisatie; inmenging van buitenaf --- Vatican Council. --- Vatikánský sněm --- Church of Rome --- Roman Catholic Church --- Katholische Kirche --- Katolyt︠s︡ʹka t︠s︡erkva --- Römisch-Katholische Kirche --- Römische Kirche --- Ecclesia Catholica --- Eglise catholique --- Eglise catholique-romaine --- Katolicheskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ --- Chiesa cattolica --- Iglesia Católica --- Kościół Katolicki --- Katolicki Kościół --- Kościół Rzymskokatolicki --- Nihon Katorikku Kyōkai --- Katholikē Ekklēsia --- Gereja Katolik --- Kenesiyah ha-Ḳatolit --- Kanisa Katoliki --- כנסיה הקתולית --- כנסייה הקתולית --- 가톨릭교 --- 천주교