Description
Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth case studies from countries throughout the post-Soviet space it compares various aspects of nation-building and identity formation projects. Approaching the issue from a variety of disciplines, and geographical areas, contributors illustrate chapter by chapter how different state and non-state actors utilise traditional instruments of nation-construction in new ways while also developing non-traditional tools and strategies to provide a contemporary account of how nation-formation efforts evolve and diverge.
Table of Contents
1. Memory and Nation-Building in Georgia Fabio De Leonardis
2. Minority Assimilation and Nation-Building in Kazakhstan
3. Religion and Nation-Building in Crimea
4. Language, Schools and Nation-Building in Tatarstan
5. Language, Economy and Nation-Building in the Republic of Sakha
6. Language, Law and Nation-Building in Georgia
7. Cinema and Nation-Building in Kazakhstan
8. Personality Cults and Nation-Building in Turkmenistan
9. Media Events and Nation-Building in Azerbaijan
10. Public Construction and Nation-Building in Tajikistan
11. Elections and Nation-Building in Abkhazia
12. Health and Nation-Building in Russia
13. Conclusion
