1st Edition
Political Construction Sites Nation Building In Russia And The Post-soviet States
By Pal Kolsto
Copyright 2000
320 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union has provided scholars with tremendously rich material for the study of comparative nation building. Not since the decolonization of Africa in the 1960s have so many new states been established in one stroke in one region. The post-Soviet states, moreover, have all the necessary prerequisites for fruitful comparison: a number of similarities, but also significant... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- Nation-Building and Social Integration Theory -- Discovering the Centuries-Old State Tradition -- Nation, State, and Religion -- Integration or Alienation? Russians in the Former Soviet Republics -- Nation-Building in Two Bicultural States: Latvia and Kazakhstan -- Two Romanias, Two Moldovas -- Belarus: The Dog That Didn’t Bark -- Ukraine: Building a Nation on Marginal Differences -- Russia: The Old Center Versus the New—Versus the Periphery -- Comparisons and Conclusions
Biography
Pal Kolsto
