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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark R Beissinger |
ISBN: | 0521806704 9780521806701 052100148X 9780521001489 |
OCLC Number: | 46353444 |
Description: | xv, 503 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 1. From the Impossible to the Inevitable -- 2. The Tide of Nationalism 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 -- App. I. Procedures for Applying Event Analysis to the Study of Soviet Protest in the Glasnost Era -- App. II. Sources for the Compilation of Event Data in a Revolutionary Context. |
Series Title: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics. |
Responsibility: | Mark R. Beissinger. |
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Abstract:
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.
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'... a very serious analytical work, which, no doubt, will attract the attention of many political scientists, especially those studying political processes in Russia and in the post-Soviet area ... important for the understanding of nationalism as a social and political phenomenon.' e-Extreme '... a fresh-minded intervention ... fascinating reading ...'. Nations and Nationalism Read more...
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- Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
- Nationalism -- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.
- Nationalisme -- URSS.
- URSS -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1985-1991.
- URSS -- Relations interethniques -- Aspect politique.
- 89.22 nationalism.
- Nationalisme.
- Indépendance.
- Révolution.
- Partition d'Etats.
- Identité nationale.
- URSS.
- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.
- Nationalism.
- Politics and government
- Soviet Union.
- Auflösung
- Nationalismus
- Regionalpolitik
- Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
- Etnische betrekkingen.
- Desintegratie.
- Sowjetunion
- Unión Soviética -- Política y gobierno -- 1981-1991.
- Nacionalismo -- Unión Soviética.
- Unión Soviética -- Relaciones étnicas -- Aspectos políticos.
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