On Ruins of Empire: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union / Edition 1

by George Mirsky

Overview

This study, sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation and the London School of Economics and Political Science, analyzes the ethnopolitical situation in Russia and the other republics of the former Soviet Union, particularly the southern tier states. Respected Russian scholar Georgiy Mirsky provides an insider's look at the historical nature of the Russian and Soviet empires, the development of ethnic and nationalistic identities within those empires, and the present-day situation with regard to hot and cold ethnic conflicts within and around Russia. This important work will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in comparative politics, international relations, and Russian and Slavic studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313300448
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/21/1997
Series:	Contributions in Political Science , #37
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1370L (what's this?)

About the Author

GEORGIY I. MIRSKY is a graduate of Moscow's Institute of Oriental Studies and has taught at the Institute of International Relations in Moscow, American University in Washington, D.C., and the London School of Economics and Political Science./e At this writing, he is a senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow and a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

What Kind of Empire Was the Soviet Union?
Ethnos, Nation, and the State
On Some Aspects of Ethnic Conflicts
The Caucasian Cauldron
Central Asia
Kazakhstan
Ukraine
Inside the Russian Federation: Russia and Tatarstan
Russians in the Near Abroad and the Problem of "Neo-imperialism"
On Russian Nationalism
Selected Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

An historical investigation into the roots of ethnic conflict operating within the former Soviet Union, offering unique insights into the seeds of ethnonationalism that grew like blackberry bushes after the Soviet collapse. Mirsky (Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow) astutely analyzes the Soviet structures which both controlled ethnic groups in the state and were also the cause of modern conflicts in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, the Ukraine, and Tatarstan. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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