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  3. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2009
      February 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511613593
      9780521806701
      9780521001489
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613593
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.93kg, 522 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.7kg, 522 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
      Subjects:
      Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Subjects:
    Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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    This 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original interpretation not only of 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 data and case studies from across the USSR during its final years to elicit the shifting relationship between pre-existing structural conditions, institutional constraints, and event-generated influences in the nationalist explosions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. As Beissinger demonstrates, the 'tidal' context of nationalism - i.e., the transnational influence of one nationalism upon another - is critical to an explanation of the success and failure of particular nationalisms, why some nationalisms turn violent, and how a crescendo of events can overwhelm states, periodically evoking large-scale structural change in the character of the state system.

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    ‘… a very serious analytical work, which, no doubt, will attract the attention of many political scientists, especially those studying political processes in Russia and in the post-Soviet area … important for the understanding of nationalism as a social and political phenomenon.’

    Source: e-Extreme

    ‘… a fresh-minded intervention … fascinating reading …’.

    Source: Nations and Nationalism

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