Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict : Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space.

Kolstø, Pål.

Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict : Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space. - 1st ed. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 2022. - 1 online resource (297 pages)

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Intro -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1 Nationalisms and Interest-Driven Identities: Theoretical Perspectives -- 2 Competing with Entrepreneurial Diasporians: Origins of Anti-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century Russia -- 3 Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Job Competition: Non-Russian Collective Action in the USSR under Perestroika -- 4 The Concept of 'Rootedness' in the Struggle for Political Power in the Former Soviet Union in the 1990s -- 5 Antemurale Thinking as Historical Myth and Ethnic Boundary Mechanism in Eastern Europe -- 6 Imperialism and Ethnocentrism in Russian Nationalism -- 7 The St George Ribbon and the Immortal Regiment: New Symbols and Rituals in Russian Regime-Legitimation -- 8 Collaboration between Nationalists and Liberals in the Russian Opposition, 2011-2013 -- 9 Crimea versus Donbas: Russian Nationalist Reactions -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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Nationalismus
Minderheitenfrage
Strategie
Politik
Identität
Ethnozentrismus


Sowjetunion
Russland


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