Ethnic nationalism in the Russian Federation.

From: Daedalus | Date: June 22, 1997| Author: Khazanov, Anatoly M. | Copyright information

A preoccupation with ethnic rather than civic national identity is a common attribute among virtually all former communist countries including the successor states of the former Soviet Union. Russia's evolvement into a civic polyethnic nation will likely be highly protracted at best.

When the communist regimes collapsed, nationalism immediately came to the fore as one of the most conspicuous ideological and political factors in the development of former Second World countries. Sup...

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