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Author Beissinger, Mark R.

Title Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the Soviet State / Mark R. Beissinger.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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 Moore Stacks  DK288 .B45 2002    Available  ---
Description xv, 503 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Nationalist 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.
Summary 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.
Subject Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1985-1991.
Soviet Union.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1985-1991
Subject Nationalism -- Soviet Union.
Nationalism.
Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects.
Ethnic relations.
Indexed Term Unión Soviética Política y gobierno 1981-1991.
Nacionalismo Unión Soviética.
Unión Soviética Relaciones étnicas Aspectos políticos.
ISBN 0521806704
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