Graham Smith, Vivien Law, Andrew Wilson

Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780521590457
• ISBN-10: 0521590450
• Artikelnr.: 24280306

Autorenporträt

Graham Smith is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster and Chair of the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development. ORCID: 0000-0002-3758-9221

Inhaltsangabe

1. Post-colonialism and borderland identities; Part I. Rediscovering
National Histories: 2. National history and national identity in Ukraine
and Belarus; 3. National identity and myths of ethnogenesis in
Transcaucasia; 4. History and group identity in Central Asia; Part II.
Ethnopolitics and the Construction of Group Boundaries: 5. Nation
re-building and political discourses of identity politics in the Baltic
states; 6. Redefining ethnic and linguistic boundaries in Ukraine:
indigenes, settlers and Russophone Ukrainians; 7. The Central Asian states
as nationalising regimes; Part III. Language and Nation-Building: 8.
Language myths and the discourse of nation-building in Georgia; 9. Language
policy and ethnic relations in Uzbekistan.