Ethnic Relations In Post Soviet Russia

Author : Andrew Foxall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317623533
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Russia written by Andrew Foxall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the collapse of communism in Russia was relatively peaceful, ethnic relations have been deteriorating since then. This deterioration poses a threat to the functioning of the Russian state and is a major obstacle to its future development. Analysing ethnic relations in the North Caucasus, this book demonstrates how a myriad of processes that characterised post-Soviet transition, including demographic change, economic upheaval, geopolitical instability, and political re-structuring, have affected daily life for citizens. It raises important questions about ethnicity, identity, nationalism, sovereignty, and territoriality in the post-Soviet space.

Author : Mikhail A. Alexseev
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333765289
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Center-periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia written by Mikhail A. Alexseev and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Soviet Union break up, whereas the Russian Federation has so far held together in the face of ostensibly similar secession crises? To what extent is regional separatism a product of economic incentives or local ethnic identity? Few areas of the world display a greater complexity of ethnic relations than the post Soviet empire, and there are few with greater long term strategic significance. Drawing on political science, sociology, and anthropology, this study asks why political elites in some regions in post-Soviet Russia have shown more of a proclivity for separatism from Moscow than others.

Author : Stephen Hutchings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317526236
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television written by Stephen Hutchings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralised government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethnonationalism in Russia, which harks back to "old-fashioned" values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media.

Author : Pål Kolstø
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474495011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict written by Pål Kolstø and published by EUP. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In them, Kolstø examines how the drivers behind ethnic conflicts in the non-Russian republics were not only struggles for collective identities but also more mundane interests, such as competition for jobs and positions.

Author : Louk Hagendoorn
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134951930
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intergroup Relations in States of the Former Soviet Union written by Louk Hagendoorn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 left 25 million Russians living outside the Russian Federation. This important new book explores their social identity, examining the mutually held perceptions, fears and resulting nationalism of both the ethnic Russians living outside the Russian Federation and the indigenous, or 'titular', populations they live amongst. Based on a unique study involving national surveys conducted in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Kazakhstan, the book maps the main individual, intergroup and cross-national factors that shape the fears of 'titulars' and Russians as well as the possible consequences and the risk of ethnic conflict in the five republics. There is detailed statistical analysis of how background factors (personal and national) affect intergroup perceptions; along with discussion of mutual stereotypes, social distance, language and the perception of citizenship and analysis of the dynamics of assimilation and separation of Russians in former soviet states. The attitudes of both groups to other smaller minority groups are also examined. This book provides significant new conclusions on the complexity of intergroup relations and seeks to relate these findings to a general theory of intergroup relations. It will be essential reading for those working in this area within the disciplines of Psychology, Sociology and Politics.

Author : James Walter Warhola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politicized Ethnicity in the Russian Federation written by James Walter Warhola and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Russian Political Identity

Author : Pål Kolstø
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9781474495004
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict written by Pål Kolstø and published by EUP. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In them, Kolstø examines how the drivers behind ethnic conflicts in the non-Russian republics were not only struggles for collective identities but also more mundane interests, such as competition for jobs and positions.

Author : Christoph Zurcher
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814797245
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Post-Soviet Wars written by Christoph Zurcher and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of the Caucusus region during and after the Post-Soviet Wars The Post-Soviet Wars is a comparative account of the organized violence in the Caucusus region, looking at four key areas: Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Dagestan. Zürcher’s goal is to understand the origin and nature of the violence in these regions, the response and suppression from the post-Soviet regime and the resulting outcomes, all with an eye toward understanding why some conflicts turned violent, whereas others not. Notably, in Dagestan actual violent conflict has not erupted, an exception of political stability for the region. The book provides a brief history of the region, particularly the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting changes that took place in the wake of this toppling. Zürcher carefully looks at the conditions within each region—economic, ethnic, religious, and political—to make sense of why some turned to violent conflict and some did not and what the future of the region might portend. This important volume provides both an overview of the region that is both up-to-date and comprehensive as well as an accessible understanding of the current scholarship on mobilization and violence.

Author : Nikolay Zakharov
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137476923
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Soviet Racisms written by Nikolay Zakharov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is novel not only in its theoretical framework, which places racialisation in post-communist societies and their modernist political projects at the centre of processes of global racism, but also in being the first account to examine both these new national contexts and the interconnections between racisms in these four regions of the Baltic states, the Southern Caucasus, Central Asia and Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, and elsewhere. Assessments of the significance of the contemporary geopolitical contexts of armed conflict, economic transformation and political transition for racial discourse are central themes, and the book highlights the creative, innovative and persistent power of contemporary forms of racial governance which has central significance for understanding contemporary societies. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of racism and ethnicity studies. "What an important and much-needed addition to the growing, but still grossly insufficient, body of work on Soviet racial thinking and its impact on Soviet and post-Soviet racisms. At the time of renewed racial tensions in the West and the growing racial anxieties underlying a variety of nation-building projects in the former Soviet spaces it is important to understand the often ignored linkages between Communist paternalism and Western views of race and racial difference. Even though its focus remains the former Soviet Union this book contains a valuable analytical toolkit for the scholars of race and racism across political and geographical boundaries." -Maxim Matusevich, Seton Hall University, USA "Post-Soviet Racisms is the first comprehensive comparative study of the politics of race in post-Soviet states. Why do racialising or overtly racist theories at times become central to the construction of post-Soviet identities? How do racisms of the dominant national groups and minorities compare? How does the process of the transnational circulation of racist and racialising discourses work? These are some of the important questions which are addressed in this ground-breaking book that enriches our understanding of the complexity of the current developments in the region." -Vera Tolz, University of Manchester, UK

Author : Graham Smith
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nationalities Question in the Post-Soviet States written by Graham Smith and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines nationality and ethnic relations in the post-Soviet states. It takes account of the changes since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989, provides overviews of nationalities policy in the Soviet period and the post-Soviet states and covers the different nationalities.