The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict

by Gwendolyn Sasse

Book Overview

In the early to mid-1990s, the Western media, policymakers, and academics alike warned that Crimea was a potential center of unrest and instability in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution. However, large-scale conflict in Crimea did not materialize, and Kyiv has managed to integrate the peninsula into the new Ukrainian polity. This book traces the imperial legacies, in particular identities and institutions of the Russian and Soviet period,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932650121
• ISBN13: 9781932650129
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"