After the USSR : ethnicity, nationalism and politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States
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
Print Book, English, ©1995
The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©1995
xxi, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780299148904, 9780299148942, 0299148904, 0299148947
32131874
1. The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Nationalism during Perestroika and Afterwards (1985-Summer 1992)
2. The Verse and Prose of Post-Totalitarianism (The ex-Soviet Union in 1992-1994)
3. Ethnic Minorities, Totalitarianism, and Democracy
4. Central Asia on a Path from the Second to the Third World
5. Ethnic Stratification and Ethnic Competition in Kazakhstan
6. Yakutian Nationalism in a Search for Identities
7. People with Nowhere To Go: The Plight of the Meskhetian Turks
8. A Last-Minute Postscript: The Chechen Crisis (as of May 21, 1995)