The Soviet polity is presently going through its most difficult
transition ever. The Russian Center's point of view is that the
crisis is an issue of imperialism: the decline and fall of the old
Russian empire, the undoing of the pax Russica, the derangement of
the Russian imperial consciousness. From the viewpoint of the
former march-lands of the empire, the issue is nationalism. Since
Mikhail Gorbachev launched his reform program under the rubric of
perestroika and glasnost, the most dramatic changes taking place in
the USSR have been in the area of ethnic and minority nationalism.
The Soviet nationalities problem has become central to the nations
of the world, as well as to all minority and national groups. The
purpose of this book is to present a comprehensive analysis of the
impact of nationalism on the break-up of the Soviet Union, measure
the effects of this dissolution, and examine the remnants and
revisions.
The authors conclude that the Russian Empire is at the end of
its tether, but what will remain will still be a viable world
power. The second conclusion is that the so-called center of the
empire will be in Russia herself, much more than in the past, and
that a new form of Russian nationalism is in the making, which
could have aggressive and expansionist tendencies. Policymakers,
Soviet-area specialists, and students will find this book
provocative and useful.
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