Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: The Politics of National Identities

by Graham Smith, Vivien Law, Andrew Wilson

The emergence in 1991 of the fourteen borderland post-Soviet states has been accompanied by the reforging of their national identities. Such attempts to rethink or reimagine the nation have had a major impact in reshaping the political, cultural and social lives of both national and ethnic minority groups alike. This book analyzes these national identities and explores their consequences for the borderland states, with substantive studies drawn from the Baltic states, Ukraine and Belarus, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.

293 pages, Paperback

First published September 10, 1998

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