Political construction sites : nation-building in Russia and the post-Soviet states /
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| Author / Creator: | Kolstø, Pål. |
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| Imprint: | Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000. |
| Description: | xi, 308 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4316297 |
Table of Contents:
- Tables and Maps
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Nation-Building Versus Ethnic Consolidation
- Topics and Cases
- 2. Nation-Building and Social Integration Theory
- Nation-Building Theory
- Social Integration Theory
- Applicability to Non-Western Societies
- Nations and Nation-Building in Eastern Europe
- Applicability to Post-Communist Realities
- 3. Discovering the Centuries-Old State Tradition
- The Baltics
- Ukraine
- Belarus
- Moldova
- Kazakhstan
- 4. Nation, State, and Religion
- Russia
- Orthodox Territorial Churches and Phyletism
- The Orthodox Church in the Baltics
- Orthodox National Churches
- Islam and Nation-Building in Central Asia
- Orthodoxy Versus Islam
- 5. Integration or Alienation? Russians in the Former Soviet Republics
- Not One Diaspora, but Fourteen
- Russia's Policy on the Diaspora Issue
- Reactions and Demands of the Russian Minorities
- The New Russian Diaspora--an Identity of Its Own?
- 6. Nation-Building in Two Bicultural States: Latvia and Kazakhstan
- Latvia
- Kazakhstan
- 7. Two Romanias, Two Moldovas
- Turnabout in Moldovan Nation-Building
- Moldovan Nation-Building and the Non-Moldovans
- 8. Belarus: The Dog That Didn't Bark
- Perestroika and Belarusian Nationalism
- The White Knight Stumbles, Then Falls
- Who Killed the Belarusian National Movement? Three Explanatory Models
- 9. Ukraine: Building a Nation on Marginal Differences
- Ukrainian Regionalism and Nation-Building
- Ukrainian Independence Policy
- Nation-Building After Independence
- Ukrainian Ethnonationalism and Ethnic Consolidation
- From Kravchuk to Kuchma: Political Nation-Building and Back Again?
- Russian-Speaking Ukrainians: Squeeze or Pivot?
- 10. Russia: The Old Center Versus the New--Versus the Periphery
- What Is Russia?
- Perestroika, or Political One-upmanship
- From Soviet Union to Russia
- A Confused Giant
- Visions, Scenarios, and Models
- Unitary State and Ethnic Federation
- Quo Vadis, Russia?
- 11. Comparisons and Conclusions
- The Soviet Legacy: The Importance of Being Territoria
- Nation-Building, Cultural Diversity, and Democracy: Some Models
- Symbolic Nation-Building, with Mixed Results
- Will the Nationalizing States Ever Become Nation-States?
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
