Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet StateThis study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987--the disintegration of the Soviet state--became the seemingly inevitable by 1991. It provides an original interpretation of not only the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally. Probing the role of nationalist action as both cause and effect, Beissinger utilizes extensive event data and detailed case studies from across the U.S.S.R. during its final years to elicit the shifting relationship between pre-existing structural conditions, institutional constraints, and event-generated influences in the massive nationalist explosions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. |
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Chapter 1, pp. 1-46
Contents
THE TIDE OF NATIONALISM AND | 30 |
MOBILIZATIONAL CYCLE | 47 |
STRUCTURING NATIONALISM | 103 |
THICKENED HISTORY AND THE MOBILIZATION | 147 |
TIDES AND THE FAILURE OF NATIONALIST | 200 |
VIOLENCE AND TIDES OF NATIONALISM | 271 |
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| Title | Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State ACLS Humanities E-Book Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
| Author | Mark R. Beissinger |
| Editors | Robert H. Bates, Peter Lange |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 052100148X, 9780521001489 |
| Length | 503 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence Political Science / General Political Science / History & Theory Political Science / Political Freedom Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy Social Science / Sociology / General |
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