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Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the Soviet State /

This study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state. The author uses data and case studies from across the USSR to elicit the shifting relationship between existing structural conditions and institutional constraints.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beissinger, Mark R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 mationalist 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.