1st Edition
Encountering Toponymic Geopolitics Place Names as a Political Instrument in the Post-Soviet States
1. Encountering Toponymic (Geo)politics in the Post-Soviet States: Introduction.
Sergei Basik
2. The "Ultimate Toponym" and National Imaginaries in Georgia and Azerbaijan: Inhibiting Imaginaries of Borchali among Georgia’s Azeri-Turks
Karli-Jo T. Storm
3. Nation-Building by Virtue of the Local Renaissance: "Exemplary" Decommunization of Street Names in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
Oleksiy Gnatiuk
4. Representation of Regional Identity in Toponymic Policy of Kazan (Russia)
Marina Golomidova
5. Communist Markers in the Information Space of Post-Communist Society: The Case of Ukraine
Aleksander Kuczabski
6. Toponymic Transformation in the Capital Centers of the North Caucasus: The Politics of Identity and Memory
Valeri Thakahov
7. Naming the Arctic and Siberia: The Role of Cartographic Agencies in the Soviet Toponymic Policy and Practice
Nadezhda Mamontova
8. Radical Memorialization in Kazakhstan: Spaces, Places, and Capitals
Kulshat Medeuova and Zhomart Medeuov
9. Onomaturgies of Toponymic Commodification in Minsk, Belarus
Jani Vuolteenaho and Sergei Basik
10. Conclusion: Toward the Future Post-Soviet Political Toponymies
Sergei Basik
Biography
Sergei Basik is a college professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Conestoga College, Canada.
