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This volume examines the relationship Russia has with its so-called 'compatriots abroad'. Based on research from Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Ukraine, the authors examine complex relationships between these individuals, their home states, and the Russian Federation.
List of contents
Introduction: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Post-Soviet Space: Language, Politics and Identity
Ammon Cheskin and Angela Kachuyevski
1. Minority Reconsidered: Towards a Typology of Latvia's Russophone Identity
M¿rti¿š Kapr¿ns and Inta Mieri¿a
2. Identity and Media-use Strategies of the Estonian and Latvian Russian-speaking Populations Amid Political Crisis
Triin Vihalemm, J¿nis Juzefovi¿s and Marianne Leppik
3. Diversity in Daugavpils: Unpacking Identity and Cultural Engagement among Minority School Youth in Eastern Latvia
Indra Ekmanis
4. Where Do I Belong? Narratives of Rodina among Russian-speaking Youth in Kazakhstan
Alina Jašina-Schäfer
5. Russian-speaking Belarusian Nationalism: An Ethnolinguistic Identity Without a Language?
Marharyta Fabrykant
6. The Ukrainian-Russian Linguistic Dyad and its Impact on National Identity in Ukraine
Nadiia Bureiko and Teodor Lucian Moga
7. Identity in Transformation: Russian-speakers in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Volodymyr Kulyk
About the author
Ammon Cheskin is Senior Lecturer in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His work focuses largely on 'Russian speakers' in the post-Soviet space. His monograph
Russian Speakers in Post-Soviet Latvia: Discursive Identity Strategies was published in 2016 by the University of Edinburgh Press, UK.
Angela Kachuyevski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arcadia University, Philadelphia, USA. She specialises in conflict resolution, critical security studies and divided societies, with a particular focus on conflicts involving Russian-speaking minorities in Ukraine, the Baltic States and Moldova.
Summary
This volume examines the relationship Russia has with its so-called ‘compatriots abroad’. Based on research from Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Ukraine, the authors examine complex relationships between these individuals, their home states, and the Russian Federation.
