Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State

Klappentext This study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state. Zusammenfassung This 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991! providing an original interpretation not only of the Soviet collapse! but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From the impossible to the inevitable; 2. The tide and the mobilizational cycle; 3. Structuring nationalism; 4. 'Thickened' history and the mobilization of identity; 5. Tides and the failure of nationalist mobilization; 6. Violence and tides of nationalism; 7. The transcendence of regimes of repression; 8. Russian mobilization and the accumulating 'inevitability' of Soviet collapse; 9. Conclusion: nationhood and event.

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• Authors: Mark R. Beissinger, Mark R. (University of Wisconsin Beissinger
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2002
• EAN: 9780521806701
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80670-1
• No. of pages: 522
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education