From union to commonwealth : nationalism and separatism in the Soviet Republics /

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of fifteen independent states on its former territory is one of the most momentous developments of the twentieth century. In this volume, five leading international scholars team up to examine the forces that lay behind the rise of national movement...

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Other Authors: Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky (Editor), Zaslavsky, Victor, 1937-2009 (Editor), Goldman, Philip (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Series:Cambridge Russian paperbacks ; 6.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Soviet federalism : its origins, evolution, and demise / Philip Goldman, Gail Lapidus, and Victor Zaslavsky
  • State, civil society, and ethnic cultural consolidation in the USSR : roots of the national question / Ronald Suny
  • From democratization to disintegration : the impact of perestroika on the national question / Gail Lapidus
  • The evolution of separatism in Soviet society under Gorbachev / Victor Zaslavsky
  • Perestroika and the ethnic consciousness of Russians / Leokadia Drobizheva
  • Nationality policies in the period of perestroika : some comments from a political actor / Galina Starovoiteva.