After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States

by Anatoly M. Khazanov

University of Wisconsin Press, 1996
Paper: 978-0-299-14894-2 | Cloth: 978-0-299-14890-4
Library of Congress Classification DK33.K4527 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800947

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

A world-renowned anthropologist, Anatoly M. Khazanov offers a witty, insightful, and cautionary analysis of ethnic nationalism and its pivotal role in the collapse of the Soviet empire.
“Khazanov’s encyclopedic knowledge of the history and culture of post-Soviet societies, combined with field research there since the 1960s, informs the case studies with a singular authoritative voice. This volume is destined to be an absolutely necessary reference for the understanding of ethnic relations and the politics of minorities in the ex-USSR into the next century.”—Leonard Plotnicov, editor of Ethnology

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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Anatoly M. Khazanov is professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was formerly professor of social anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a senior scholar at the Soviet Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology. A Fellow of the British Academy and a 1993–94 Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of Nomads and the Outside World, published by the University of Wisconsin Press, as well as nine other books.

REVIEWS

“A major book from one of the greatest social scientists now at work.”—John A. Hall, author of Powers and Liberties

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Maps

Tables and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

1.
The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Nationalism during Perestroika and Afterwards (1985-Summer 1992)

2.
The Verse and Prose of Post-Totalitarianism (The ex-Soviet Union in 1992-1994)

3.
Ethnic Minorities, Totalitarianism, and Democracy

4.
Central Asia on a Path from the Second to the Third World

5.
Ethnic Stratification and Ethnic Competition in Kazakhstan

6.
Yakutian Nationalism in a Search for Identities

7.
People with Nowhere To Go: The Plight of the Meskhetian Turks

8.
A Last-Minute Postscript: The Chechen Crisis (as of May 21,1995)

Conclusion

Tables and Figures

Appendix: Ethnic composition of the Soviet Union, by 1989

References

Index

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