Thugs with Guns”
Disaggregating “Ethnic Violence” in the Russian Federation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Arnold (0000-0002-1350-0210, Muskingum University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 641-664 |
| Publication date | 2009-09-01 |
| 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 | 10.1080/00905990903122883 |
| OpenAlex | W2036668273 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
How can one understand the phenomenon known as “ethnic violence?” Does subsuming events under the category “ethnic violence” assist our understanding or does it obscure it? Are there lessons that the form ethnic violence takes can teach us? These questions are important not only for anyone interested in the causes and prevention of ethnic violence but also for those who wish to understand group behavior more generally. I explore this question more fully through analysis of the case of the Russian Federation. Russia is a country where in recent times skinhead violence against ethnic minorities has become an important issue. According to Tarasov, Russia contains between 60,000 and 65,000 skinheads active in at least 85 different cities. These skinheads daily commit appalling acts of violence against members of ethnic minorities and human rights activists. Three instances of violence all from the year 2006 help to illustrate some of their activities
Commit · Criminology · Ethnic group · Ethnic violence · Phenomenon · Political science · Russian federation · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Spaces through Art
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A festival of violence
The Myth of Ethnic War
Modern Hatreds
The Dark Side of Democracy
Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
Discipline and Punish
Nations and Nationalism
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Foundations of Ethnic Politics
The Deadly Ethnic Riot
Understanding Ethnic Violence
Nationalism Reframed
The Politics of Collective Violence
Our desires are ungovernable’
Identity in formation
Ethnic groups in conflict
The origins of totalitarianism
Russia's “Ethnic Revival
Legacies of Lynching
Explaining Interethnic Cooperation
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The role of the intelligentsia in developing national consciousness among the peoples of the USSR underperestroika
Ethnicity as cognition
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2015 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |