Ethnic conflict in the post-Soviet world: case studies and by Leokadia Drobizheva, Rose Gottemoeller, Catherine McArdle

By Leokadia Drobizheva, Rose Gottemoeller, Catherine McArdle Kelleher, Lee Walker

Provides sixteen case reports of ethnic clash within the post-Soviet global. The booklet locations ethnic clash within the context of imperial cave in, democratization and country development.

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An examination of the historical record, however, reveals a far more complex set of circumstances and processes. The overriding reality for the Bolshevik regime during the first three years of its existence was the civil war and the allied intervention. Inasmuch as the White generals had "Great Russia, one and indivisible" inscribed on their banners, the Bolsheviks were able to use their support for self-determination to fracture the anti-Bolshevik coalition and neutralize the threat posed by the forces of the nascent successor regimes in the borderlands of the Baltic, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus.

Since the "national and social oppression" that Marx and Lenin had identified as the sources of national antagonism and nationalism were considered to have been abolished, ethnic conflict was deemed not to exist in the Soviet state. 16 Increasingly severe economic dysfunctionalities, environmental and ecological degradation, and a crisis of rising expectations provoked popular discontent, dissidence, and the organization of popular movements in the late 1970s and 1980s in Central Europe and the Soviet Union.

Drobizheva, L. M. 48-1984. BM (c)10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 BM (p)10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents About The Editors And Contributors vii About Wiis And Wings x Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1. Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in The Post-Soviet Transition Lee Walker 3 The Balkans 2. Bosnia and Herzegovina Susan L. Woodward 15 3. Minority Rights and Majority Rule Ethnic Tolerance in Romania and Bulgaria Mary E. McIntosh, Martha Abele MacIver, Daniel G. Abele, and David B. Nolle 37 Central Europe 4. The Politics of Ethnicity and the Breakup of the Czechslovak Federation Sharon L.

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