Introduction: Nation-Building in the Post-Soviet Space

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Rico Isaacs ◽  
Abel Polese
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Post Soviet Space

scholarly journals Borders moving across people: Narratives of belonging among Crimean youth after 2014

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (7) ◽  
pp. 1056-1076
Author(s):  
Olga Zeveleva ◽  
Anastasia Bludova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Ontological Security ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Post Soviet Space

This article explores how senses of belonging, place, and mobility are linked to each other in the context of rapid socio-political change and human mobility. Using the sociological concept of place-belongingness, the article examines narratives of belonging among young people from Crimea who moved to Moscow to pursue higher education in the two years following Russia’s 2014 annexation of the peninsula. Drawing on 38 biographical interviews conducted in Moscow with young people from Crimea, the article demonstrates how ‘movements of borders across people’ (to build on Rogers Brubaker’s expression) result in a non-binary construction of belonging across places, based on the access an individual has to constellations of resources different places offer. The analysis shows that narratives of belonging among young people from Crimea revolve around resource categories that include economic resources, emotional resources, resources that reconcile multiple identities, and ontological security resources. This study moves beyond analysis of identities as linked to nation-building in the post-Soviet space, focusing on categories of ‘place’ emerging from the perspectives of study participants.

Ethnic minorities and nation-building in the post-Soviet space: Constructing a theoretical framework

2009 ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
I. Kudryashova ◽  
E. Meleshkina
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
State Building ◽  
Political Control ◽  
European Experience ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Post Soviet Space

Divisions over recognition of Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia’s independence put in focus policies towards ethnic minorities, structuring and legitimization of power in newly-formed multi-ethnic states. In most cases state-building requires the homogenization of population, i.e. “nationalizing” policies of both exclusion and inclusion. The relevant European experience has been conceptualized by political scientists examining the key parameters of “nationalizing” policies used in respect of ethnic minorities as well as the influence of centre-periphery polarity and different ways of political control maintenance on the process of state- and nation-building. Applying these approaches to the post-Soviet realities the authors offer a theoretical framework for analyzing grounds, forms and consequences of the politicization of ethnicity and evaluation of possible stability/instability, including secessions, bringing a realistic perspective to bear on what is happening and what can be done.

scholarly journals Actual Problems and Prospects of Ukrainian Nation-Building

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
V. Shishkov
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Important Condition ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The article examines the problem of formation of ethnic boundaries in the process of nation-building in Ukraine and the role of memory politics in this process. The analysis is carried out on a theoretical and methodological basis, including research of the theory of the nation and nationalism, issues of ethnicity, imperial issues, memory policy and historical policy in the post-Soviet space. The efforts of Ukraine to implement the policy of memory, its origins and prerequisites are analyzed. The natural character and direction of this activity, conditioned by the specifics of nation-building in the imperial and Soviet periods, is shown. The main directions, elements, and means of implementing the policy of memory are aimed at forming the foundations of the Ukrainian nation, tearing it off from historical Russia and aiming at spreading Russophobic mythology. Special attention is paid to historical politics as a tool for reforming mass consciousness and implanting Ukrainian identity. The researched factual material made it possible to draw several conclusions about the consequences of the implementation of the memory policy. In particular, after decommunization the theme of decolonization gains increasing importance in Ukraine, being aimed at an even more radical division of the Russian and Ukrainian ethnic groups, of their common historical heritage. In general, the politics of memory may be regarded as an important condition and tool for constructing a new border between Russia and Ukraine.

Trends of Regional Integration on the Post-Soviet Space: Results of Quantitative Analysis

2010 ◽  
pp. 94-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Vinokurov ◽  
A. Libman
Keyword(s):  
Regional Integration ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Trade Integration ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Small Countries ◽  
Economic Interaction ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Soviet Space ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Post Soviet Space

The paper applies a new dataset of the System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration to evaluate the changes of level and direction of economic interaction of the post-Soviet states in the last decade. It analyzes the integration dynamics in the area of trade and migration as well as on three functional markets of agricultural goods, electricity and educational services. The paper concludes that the level of trade integration on the post-Soviet space continues declining, while there is a rapid increase of the labor market integration. Three largest countries of the Eurasian Economic Community - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan - demonstrate positive integration dynamics, but small countries maintain the leading position in the area of post-Soviet integration.

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