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" After the USSR : "
Anatoly M. Khazanov
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582209
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GB9620222b411428
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| Main Entry
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Khazanov, Anatoly M., (Anatoly Michailovich),1937-
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After the USSR : : ethnicity, nationalism and politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States /\ Anatoly M. Khazanov
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xxi, 311 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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0299148904
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: 9780299148904
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: 0299148947
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: 9780299148942
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-298) and index
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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)
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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
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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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Minorities-- Former Soviet republics
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Ethnology-- Former Soviet republics
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Nationalism-- Former Soviet republics
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Ethnologie-- Ex-URSS
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Etnische betrekkingen
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Minorités-- Ex-URSS
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Nationalisme
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Nationalisme-- Ex-URSS
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Politieke ontwikkeling
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Former Soviet republics, Ethnic relations
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Former Soviet republics, Politics and government
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305.8/00947
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DK33.K4527 1995
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