Political Culture and National Symbols

Their Impact on the Belarusian Nation-Building Process

Bibliographic Data

ID11048438
AuthorsAstrid Sahm (0009-0006-6166-8276, University of Mannheim, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume27
Issue4
Pages649-660
Publication date1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/009059999108876
OpenAlexW2071590223
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited2

The new states emerging from the break-up of the Soviet Union not only had to manage the task of political and economic reforms but were also forced to develop a suitable national state ideology in order to ensure their achieved independence. The existence of a national consensus is essential for the stability of every state and society, and during periods of transition the question how national identity is defined becomes especially important. Thus, on the one hand, the dominance of a concrete national state concept may facilitate the transformation process because people are ready to bear the social costs of economic reforms in the name of state sovereignty, as was the case in Lithuania. On the other hand, a continuing Soviet cultural hegemony can also block necessary modernization in the post-Soviet period

Dominance (genetics · Economic system · Economics · Hegemony · Ideology · Independence (probability theory · Modernization theory · National identity · National Question · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Territorial integrity · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Cultural and National Identity · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law

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