Assessing the Prospects of the New Soviet Successor States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047478 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Aves (Universidad de Londres, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 209-224 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/00905999408408318 |
| OpenAlex | W4246353245 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The formation of fifteen nation states on the territory of the former Soviet Union poses a series of challenges to specialists in Soviet nationalities. They are asked to pronounce on the degree of stability which the new states will enjoy and assess the dangers (mainly military) and the opportunities (mainly economic) that have arisen. The background of preconceptions about nationalism on which such judgements are based is usually characterized by an ambivalence, stemming from a feeling that the dissolution of the Soviet empire into nation states was somehow natural and inevitable, and also by the condescension of mature and powerful states which believe they have outgrown nationalism and the possibly dangerous antics of their younger brothers. Consequently, analysis of the post-Soviet scene produces tentative or confused results. This article attempts to apply a common framework of analysis across all the republics of the former Soviet Union to identify some of the broad but discrete trends which the future development of these states might take. The reader will quite reasonably question whether it makes sense to compare Estonia with Tajikistan or Russia with Moldavia. In reply, it could be argued that political scientists have been presented with an unprecedented opportunity to compare states with very different historical and cultural traditions but which, by virtue of their having been part of the Soviet Union, share remarkably similar political and social structures
Ambivalence · Clan · Empire · Feeling · Nationalism · Natural (archaeology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Successor cardinal · Virtue · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition · Psychology · Russia and Soviet political economy · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |