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Nearly Three Decades After The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, Early Hopes For The Integration Of The Post-soviet States Into A Europe Whole And Free Seem To Have Been Decisively Dashed. Europe Itself Is In The Midst Of A Multifaceted Crisis That Threatens The Considerable Gains Of The Post-war Liberal European Experiment. In Russia, The Former Soviet Republics, And Europe Since 1989, Katherine Graney Provides A Panoramic And Historically-rooted Overview Of The Process Of Europeanization In Russia And All Fourteen Of The Former Soviet Republics Since 1989. Graney Argues That Deeply Rooted Ideas About Europe's Cultural-civilizational Primacy And Concerns About Both Ideological And Institutional Alignment With Europe Continue To Influence Both Internal Politics In Contemporary Europe And The Processes Of Europeanization In The Post-soviet World. By Comparing The Effect Of The Phenomenon Across Russia And The Ex-republics, Graney Provides A Theoretically Grounded And Empirically Rich Window Into How We Should Study Politics In The Former Ussr.