Conflicting Loyalties and the State in Post-Soviet Russia and EurasiaMichael Waller, Bruno Coppieters, Alekseĭ Vsevolodovich Malashenko They include the exclave of Kaliningrad, separated now from the rest of Russia by independent states: Ukraine, where regional tensions are losing some of their ethnic edge; the Crimea within Ukraine, a small territory rich in tensions and home to what was the Soviet Black Sea fleet, and home also to a returning population of Tatars expelled in the Stalin years; Tatarstan, engineer of a 'model' of autonomy within the Russian federation; and Tajikistan, where regional tensions with religious overtones and important international implications, led to the eruption of a violent and destructive civil war. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 12 |
Section 3 | 33 |
Section 4 | 53 |
Section 5 | 80 |
Section 6 | 118 |
Section 7 | 145 |
Section 8 | 171 |
Section 9 | 187 |
Section 10 | 203 |
Section 11 | 225 |
Section 12 | 246 |
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