Nationalism and the Breakup of an Empire: Russia and Its Periphery

by Miron Rezun

The Soviet polity is presently going through its most difficult transition ever. The Russian Center's point of view is that the crisis is an issue of imperialism: the decline and fall of the old Russian empire, the undoing of the pax Russica, the derangement of the Russian imperial consciousness. From the viewpoint of the former march-lands of the empire, the issue is nationalism. Since Mikhail Gorbachev launched his reform program under the rubric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275943208
• ISBN13: 9780275943202
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"