From Union to Commonwealth: Nationalism and Separatism in the Soviet Republics

Book Overview

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of fifteen independent states on its former territory is one of the most momentous developments of the twentieth century. In From Union to Commonwealth, five leading international scholars--Leokadia Drobizheva and Galina Starovoiteva from Russia, and Gail Lapidus, Ronald Suny and Victor Zaslavsky from North America--team up to examine the forces that lay behind the rise of national movements which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521427169
• ISBN13: 9780521427166
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 9.0"