After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent StatesUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1995 - 311 頁 Khazanov's astute assessments of ethnic and political strife in Russia, in Chechnia, in Central Asia, in Kazakhstan, among the Meskhetian Turks, and among the Yakut of Eastern Siberia illuminate the interconnections between nationalism, ethnic relations, social structures, and political process in the waning days of the USSR and in the new independent states. Exploring the Soviet nationality policy and its failure to satisfy national aspirations, Khazanov demonstrates the fatal flaws of totalitarian rule and the impossibility of reforming it. Khazanov cautions that the liberal democratic direction of current transformations in the former Soviet Union should not be taken for granted. For most of the independent states, he points out, departing from totalitarianism requires creation of a civil society for the first time in their history. The state's partial retreat from the public sphere leaves a dangerous institutional vacuum, in which nationalism is emerging as the dominant ideology. He warns that this new, post-totalitarian society is still a far cry from a genuine liberal democracy and, despite its inherent instability, may turn out to be a long-lasting phenomenon. |
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Nationalism during | 3 |
The Verse and Prose of PostTotalitarianism | 54 |
Ethnic Minorities Totalitarianism and Democracy | 97 |
Central Asia on a Path from the Second to the Third World | 115 |
Ethnic Stratification and Ethnic Competition in Kazakhstan | 156 |
Yakutian Nationalism in a Search for Identities | 175 |
The Plight of | 192 |
The Chechen Crisis | 212 |
Conclusion | 230 |
Tables and Figures | 247 |
Ethnic composition of the Soviet Union by 1989 | 268 |
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