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Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
By Mark R. Beissinger
518 pages
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- Cambridge University Press
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- Cambridge, England
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- 2002
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Synopsis
This study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987--the disintegration of the Soviet state--became the seemingly inevitable by 1991. It provides an original interpretation of not only 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 extensive event data and detailed case studies from across the U.S.S.R. during its final years to elicit the shifting relationship ...
This study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987--the disintegration of the Soviet state--became the seemingly inevitable by 1991. It provides an original interpretation of not only 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 extensive event data and detailed case studies from across the U.S.S.R. during its final years to elicit the shifting relationship between pre-existing structural conditions, institutional constraints, and event-generated influences in the massive nationalist explosions that brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Table of contents
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- Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State *
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Illustrations ix
- Tables xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- 1 - From the Impossible to the Inevitable 1
- 2 - The Tide of Nationalism and the Mobilizational Cycle 47
- 3 - Structuring Nationalism 103
- 4 - Thickened History and the Mobilization of Identity 147
- 5 - Tides and the Failure of Nationalist Mobilization 200
- 6 - Violence and Tides of Nationalism 271
- 7 - The Transcendence of Regimes of Repression 320
- 8 - Russian Mobilization and the Accumulating “inevitability” of Soviet Collapse 385
- 9 - Conclusion: Nationhood and Event 443
- Appendix I - Procedures for Applying Event Analysis to the Study of Soviet Protest in the Glasnost' Era 460
- Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State *
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Illustrations ix
- Tables xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- 1 - From the Impossible to the Inevitable 1
- 2 - The Tide of Nationalism and the Mobilizational Cycle 47
- 3 - Structuring Nationalism 103
- 4 - Thickened History and the Mobilization of Identity 147
- 5 - Tides and the Failure of Nationalist Mobilization 200
- 6 - Violence and Tides of Nationalism 271
- 7 - The Transcendence of Regimes of Repression 320
- 8 - Russian Mobilization and the Accumulating “inevitability” of Soviet Collapse 385
- 9 - Conclusion: Nationhood and Event 443
- Appendix I - Procedures for Applying Event Analysis to the Study of Soviet Protest in the Glasnost' Era 460
- Appendix II - Sources for the Compilation of Event Data in a Revolutionary Context 472
- Index 489