Beyond Russia, becoming local: Trajectories of adaption to the fall of the Soviet Union among ethnic Russians in the former Soviet Republics

When the Soviet Union began to unravel in the late 1980s, many observers expected that the 25 million ethnic Russians who lived in the non-Russian republics represented an important group of people who could be mobilized by ‘empire-savers’ to stem this process. Russians who would end up as minoritie...

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Main Author: Pål Kolstø
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-07-01
Series:Journal of Eurasian Studies
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366511000133