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…mehr
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.
MIRON REZUN, born in Israel, is a Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and has published widely on the Soviet Union and the Middle East. His articles have appeared in Etudes Internationales, the International Journal, Queen's Quarterly, and Problems of Communism. He has edited a book called Iran at the Crossroads: Global Relations in a Turbulent Decade (1990). He has also published Post-Khomeini Iran and the New Gulf War (1991), Intrigue and War in Southwest Asia (Praeger, 1991), and Saddam Hussein's Gulf Wars (Praeger, 1992).
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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
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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