Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities [Hardcover]

This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states.The emergence in 1991 of the fourteen borderland post-Soviet states has been accompanied with the reforging of their national identities. Such attempts to rethink or reimagine the nation have had a major impact in reshaping the political, cultural ad social lives of both national and ethnic minority groups alike. This book analyses these national identities and explores their consequences for the borderland states, with substantive studies drawn from the Baltic states, Ukraine and Belarus, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.The emergence in 1991 of the fourteen borderland post-Soviet states has been accompanied with the reforging of their national identities. Such attempts to rethink or reimagine the nation have had a major impact in reshaping the political, cultural ad social lives of both national and ethnic minority groups alike. This book analyses these national identities and explores their consequences for the borderland states, with substantive studies drawn from the Baltic states, Ukraine and Belarus, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.The emergence in 1991 of the fourteen borderland post-Soviet states has been accompanied by the reforging of their national identities. Such attempts to rethink or reimagine the nation have had a major impact in reshaping the political, cultural and social lives of both national and ethnic minority groups alike. This book analyzes these national identities and explores their consequences for the borderland states, with substantive studies drawn from the Baltic states, Ukraine and Belarus, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.1. Post-colonialism and borderland identities; Part I. Rediscovering National Histories: 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; Part II. Ethnopolitics and the Construction of