| Description |
xxi, 743 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Post-Soviet nationalities theory: past, present, and future / Ian Bremmer -- 2. Russia: in search of an identity? / John Dunlop -- 3. The North Caucasus: confederation in conflict / Jane Ormrod -- 4. The Middle Volga: exploring the limits of sovereignty / Allen Frank and Ronald Wixman -- 5. Siberia: assimilation and its discontents / Gail Fondahl -- 6. Ukraine: from empire to statehood / Alexander Motyl and Bohdan Krawchenko -- 7. Belarus: from statehood to empire? / Jan Zaprudnik and Michael Urban -- 8. Moldova: caught between nation and empire / William Crowther -- 9. Lithuania: rights and responsibilities of independence / Alfred Senn -- 10. Latvia: restoring a state, rebuilding a nation / Nils Muiznieks -- 11. Estonia: independence redefined / Toivo Raun -- 12. Azerbaijan: searching for new neighbours / Shireen Hunter -- 13. Armenia: paradise lost? / Nora Dudwick -- 14. Georgia: the trauma of statehood / Stephen Jones |
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15. Kazakhstan: pushing for Eurasia / Martha Brill Olcott -- 16. Uzbekistan: the politics of national independence / Gregory Gleason -- 17. Tajikistan: reform, reaction, and civil war / Muriel Atkin -- 18. Turkmenistan: just like old times / David Nissman -- 19. Kyrgyzstan: the politics of demographic and economic frustration / Eugene Huskey -- 20. From matrioshka nationalism to national interests / Ray Taras / Edited by Cory Welt -- App. Soviet census data, union republic and ASSR, 1989 |
| Summary |
Since first publication in 1993, Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor-States edited by Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras has established itself internationally as the first genuinely comprehensive, systematic and rigorous analysis of the nation- and state-building processes of the fifteen new states which grew out of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations succeeds and replaces the editors' earlier book with a new collection of specially commissioned studies from the world's foremost specialists. Far from eradicating tensions among the former Soviet peoples, the disintegration of empire has seen national minorities rediscovering long-suppressed new identities. The contributors to New States, New Politics once again bring together historical and ethnic background with penetrating political analysis to offer a fresh, up-to-date and unique record of the different roads to self-assertion and independence being pursued by these young nations. --Publisher description |
| Analysis |
Chronology |
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Ethnic relations |
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Former Soviet Republics |
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Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government |
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Independence |
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Minorities |
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Nationalism |
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Nationalism -- Former Soviet republics |
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New World Order |
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Overseas item |
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Political change |
| Notes |
"Succeeds and replaces Nations [i.e. Nation] and politics in the Soviet successor states, published ... in 1993"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 718-726) and index |
| Notes |
Previously published Nations and politics in the Soviet successor-states. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993 |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Former Soviet republics.
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Nationalism -- Soviet Union -- Republics.
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Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics.
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| SUBJECT |
Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115049
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USSR -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004555
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| Author |
Bremmer, Ian, 1969-
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Taras, Ray, 1946-
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| LC no. |
96012565 |
| ISBN |
0521571014 |
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0521577993 (paperback) |
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