Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union : Samizdat, Deprivation and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism

D. Zisserman-Brodsky

ISBN 10: 1349526681 / ISBN 13: 9781349526680

Edité par Springer Nature Customer Serv. Cent. LLC Aug 2003, 2003

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Neuware - The 'nationality question' was long central to Soviet thought and policy, and the failure to provide a convincing answer played a major role in the break-up of the Soviet Union into ethnically or nationally defined states. Zisserman-Brodsky explores various explanations of nationalism and its resurgence through a close and unprecedented examination of dissident writings of diverse ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union, thereby bridging macro-theory with micro-politics. Dissident ethnic networks were a crucial independent institution in the Soviet Union, and a basis of civil society. Voicing the discontent and resentment of the periphery at the policies of the centre or metropole, the dissident writings, known as samizdat highlighted anger at deprivations imposed in the political, cultural, social and economic spheres. Ethnic dissident writings drew on values both internal to the Soviet system and international as sources of legitimation; they met a divided reaction among Russians, with some privileging the unity of the Soviet Union and others sympathetic to the rhetoric of national rights. This focus on national, rather than individual, rights helps explain developments since the fall of the Soviet Union, including the prevalence of authoritarian governments in newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.

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• Titre: Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union : Samizdat, Deprivation and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism
• Éditeur: Springer Nature Customer Serv. Cent. LLC Aug 2003
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1349526681
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781349526680
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 203 L x 127 H x 17 P (en millimètres) 203 millimètres de largeur par 127 millimètres de hauteur par 17 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 304 grammes

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The 'nationality question' was long central to Soviet thought and policy, and the failure to provide a convincing answer played a major role in the break-up of the Soviet Union into ethnically or nationally defined states. Zisserman-Brodsky explores various explanations of nationalism and its resurgence through a close and unprecedented examination of dissident writings of diverse ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union, thereby bridging macro-theory with micro-politics. Dissident ethnic networks were a crucial independent institution in the Soviet Union, and a basis of civil society. Voicing the discontent and resentment of the periphery at the policies of the centre or metropole, the dissident writings, known as samizdat highlighted anger at deprivations imposed in the political, cultural, social and economic spheres. Ethnic dissident writings drew on values both internal to the Soviet system and international as sources of legitimation; they met a divided reaction among Russians, with some privileging the unity of the Soviet Union and others sympathetic to the rhetoric of national rights. This focus on national, rather than individual, rights helps explain developments since the fall of the Soviet Union, including the prevalence of authoritarian governments in newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.