The Emergence of a Regional Identity in the Kaliningrad Oblast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8911653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingmar Oldberg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 269-288 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00108360021962101 |
| OpenAlex | W2044156304 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Contributing empirical evidence in a rather neglected research field, this article examines the emergence of a regional identity in the Russian Kaliningrad oblast since Soviet times by analysing the composition and the views of the population, official symbols, place names, architecture, history-writing as well as economic and political strivings. It is concluded that the region has developed from a militarized, closed anonymous part of the Soviet Russian empire into an exclave separated from Russia, still Russian by nationality but more open and Western than the country at large. The inhabitants are coming to terms with the region's German past and realize that they have specific political and economic interests. This emerging regional identity has so far been compatible with a wider Russian identity. But if the economic situation in the region continues to worsen in comparison with the surrounding states, and the federal centre in Moscow cannot support the region, calls for more autonomy and even separatism may grow
Autonomy · Economy · Empire · Geography · German · Identity (music · Immigration · National identity · Nationality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Demography · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Politics and Security · Law
Soviet-Era Civic Monuments in the Cultural Landscape of Kaliningrad
Geopolitics of the Kaliningrad Exclave and Enclave
Europeanization ‘Beyond’ Europe? EU Impact on Domestic Policies in the Russian Enclave of Kaliningrad
Locating Kaliningrad And KÖNigsberg In Russian And German Collective Identity Discourses And Political Symbolism In The 750Th Anniversary Celebrations Of 2005
A ‘Baltic Republic in the Russian Federation’ or the ‘Fourth Baltic Republic’? Kaliningrad's regional programme in the 1990s
Kaliningrad as an isolated zone
Demonized, domesticated, virtualized
Bridging Past and Present Traumas
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |