Title Nation-building in the post-Soviet borderlands : the politics of national identities / Graham Smith ... [and others]

Published Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description xi, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Contents 1. Post-colonialism and borderland identities -- 2. National history and national identity in Ukraine and Belarus -- 3. National identity and myths of ethnogenesis in Transcaucasia -- 4. History and group identity in Central Asia -- 5. Nation re-building and political discourses of identity politics in the Baltic states -- 6. Redefining ethnic and linguistic boundaries in Ukraine: indigenes, settlers and Russophone Ukrainians -- 7. The Central Asian states as nationalising regimes -- 8. Language myths and the discourse of nation-building in Georgia -- 9. Language policy and ethnic relations in Uzbekistan Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-283) and index Subject Ethnicity -- Former Soviet republics. Language policy -- Former Soviet republics. Nationalism and historiography. Nationalism -- Former Soviet republics. Nationalism -- Soviet Union -- Republics. SUBJECT Former Soviet republics -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115052 Former Soviet republics http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92002682 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046 Author Smith, Graham, 1953-1999. LC no. 97032113 ISBN 0521590450 0521599687 (paperback)

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