From Union to Commonwealth

This volume examines the rise of national movements which challenged, then destroyed, the stability and territorial integrity of the former Soviet state.

List of contents

1. Introduction Gail Lapidus, Victor Zaslavsky and Philip Goldman; 2. State, civil society and ethnic cultural consolidation in the USSR - roots of the national question Ronald Suny; 3. The impact of perestroika on the national question Gail Lapidus; 4. The evolution of separatism in Soviet society under Gorbachev Victor Zaslavsky; 5. Perestroika and the ethnic consciousness of Russians Leokadia Drobizheva; 6. Nationality policies in the period of perestroika: some comments from a supreme Soviet deputy Galina Starovoiteva.

Summary

This volume examines the rise of national movements which challenged, then destroyed, the stability and territorial integrity of the former Soviet state.

Product details

• Assisted by: Gail Lapidus (Editor), Victor Zaslavsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2015
• EAN: 9780521417068
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41706-8
• No. of pages: 142
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 367 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education