Strategic uses of nationalism and ethnic conflict : interest and identity in Russia and the post-Soviet space /

This book collects 8 thoroughly revised articles and book chapters, together with a new introductory theoretical chapter, based on Pål Kolstø's 30 years of study of nationalism and ethnic conflict in post-Soviet states. In them, Kolstø examines how the drivers behind ethnic conflicts in the non...

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Author / Creator: Kolstø, Pål (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Series:Edinburgh scholarship online.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nationalism and interest-driven identities : theoretical perspectives
  • Competing with entrepreneurial diasporians : origins of anti-semitism in nineteenth-century Russia
  • Nationalism, ethnic conflict and job competition : non-Russian collective action in the USSR under Perestroika
  • The concept of 'rootedness' in the struggle for political power in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s
  • Antemurale thinking as historical myth and ethnic boundary mechanism in Eastern Europe
  • Imperialism and ethnocentrism in Russian nationalism
  • The St. George ribbon and the immortal regiment : new symbols and rituals in Russian regime-legitimation
  • Collaboration between nationalists and liberals in the Russian opposition, 2011-2013
  • Crimea versus Donbas : Russian nationalist reactions.