Nationalism and the breakup of an empire : Russia and its periphery
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Nationalism and the breakup of an empire : Russia and its periphery
Praeger, 1992
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-183) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Soviet polity is presently going through its most difficult transition ever. The Russian Center's point of view is that the crisis is an issue of imperialism: the decline and fall of the old Russian empire, the undoing of the pax Russica, the derangement of the Russian imperial consciousness. From the viewpoint of the former march-lands of the empire, the issue is nationalism. Since Mikhail Gorbachev launched his reform program under the rubric of perestroika and glasnost, the most dramatic changes taking place in the USSR have been in the area of ethnic and minority nationalism. The Soviet nationalities problem has become central to the nations of the world, as well as to all minority and national groups. The purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive analysis of the impact of nationalism on the break-up of the Soviet Union, measure the effects of this dissolution, and examine the remnants and revisions.
The authors conclude that the Russian Empire is at the end of its tether, but what will remain will still be a viable world power. The second conclusion is that the so-called center of the empire will be in Russia herself, much more than in the past, and that a new form of Russian nationalism is in the making, which could have aggressive and expansionist tendencies. Policymakers, Soviet-area specialists, and students will find this book provocative and useful.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction The Center Continuity, within Soviet Nationality Policy: Prospects for change in the post-Soviet Era by Kurt Nesby Hansen The Army and the National Question by David Jones The European Periphery Latvia: Chronicle of an Independence Movement by Juri Dreifelds Ukrainian Nationalism and the Future by Bohdan Harasymiw The Caucasian Periphery Georgia: The Long Battle for Independence by Stephen Jones Armenian Nationalism in a Socialist Century by Gordon Brown The Muslim Periphery Azerbaijan: From Trauma to Transition by Fuat Borovali The Muslim Borderlands: Islam and Nationalism in Transition by Miron Rezun The International Dimension Xinjiang: Ethnic Minorities under Chinese Rule by Lawrence Shyu American and French Responses to the Lithuanian Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Allan Laine Kagedan Constitutional Crises in Two Countries: The Soviet Perceptions of Federal-Provincial Relations in Canada by Larry Black Suggested Reading Index
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