Far from eradicating tensions among the former Soviet peoples, the disintegration of empire has seen national minorities rediscovering long-suppressed new identities. This book shows the different roads the nations are taking towards independence.
This book seeks to understand the politics of nationalism in the buffer zone between Russia and the West: Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova, as well as Russia itself. It problematizes the official ways of defining the nation, and thus citizenship, in the light of "frozen" ethno-t…
Part 1: Dynamics of Bordering in the Post-Soviet Space -- Beate Eschment, Ketevan Kutsishvili, Sabine von Löwis, Dynamics of Bordering in the Post-Soviet Space over the Last 30 Years -- Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Between the 'Opening to the West' and the Trauma of Re-Bordering: Towards…
"This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to fifteen independent states and numerous de facto states; but this process of reborde…
This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War.?The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to fifteen independent states and numerous de facto states; but this process of reborder…
"This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to fifteen independent states and numerous de facto states; but this process of reborde…
"This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to fifteen independent states and numerous de facto states; but this process of reborde…
"This book investigates how borders in former Soviet Union territories have evolved and shifted in the thirty years since the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to fifteen independent states and numerous de facto states; but this process of reborde…
The Soviet Union encompassed dozens of nationalities and ethnicities and, in the wake of its collapse, the politics of the area have undergone enormous change. The articles in this book examine various facets of ethnicity in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought to the fore issues of ethnic division that had been suppressed under communist rule. Hughes (government, London School of Economics) and Sasse (European Institute, London School of Economics) have collected nine essays that explor…
