List of maps page ix // List of tables x // Notes on contributors xii // Foreword Robert Conquest xvii // Preface lan Bremmer and Ray Taras xix // Part I Introduction // 1 Reassessing Soviet nationalities theory 3 // Ian Bremmer // Part II The center // 2 Success and collapse: traditional Soviet nationality policy 29 // Victor Zaslavsky . // 3 Russia: confronting a loss of empire 43 // ]ohn Dunlop // Part III The “new” Eastern Europe // 4 Ukraine: the politics of independence 75 // Bohdan Krawchenko // 5 Belarus: a long road to nationhood 99 // Michael Urban and Jan Zaprudnik // 6 Moldova: breaking loose from Moscow 121 // Daria Fane // Part IV The Baltics // 7 Lithuania: nationalism in the modern era 157 // Richard Krickus // 8 Latvia: origins, evolution, and triumph 182 // Nils Muiznieks // 9 Estonia: a plural society on the road to independence 206 // Cynthia Kaplan // Part V The Transcaucasus // 10 Azerbaijan: search for identity and new partners 225 // Shireen Hunter // vii // viii Contents // 11 Armenia: the nation awakens 261 // Nora Dudwick // 12 Georgia: a failed democratic transition 288 // Stephen Jones // Part VI Central Asia // 13 Kazakhstan: a republic of minorities 313 // Martha Brill Olcott // 14 Uzbekistan: from statehood to nationhood 331 // Gregory Gleason // 15 Tajikistan: ancient heritage, new politics 361 // Muriel Atkin // 16 Turkmenistan: searching for a national identity 384 // David Nissman // 17 Kyrgyzstan: the politics of demographic and economic frustration 398 // Gene Huskey // Part VII Nations without States // 18 The Middle Volga: ethnic archipelago in a Russian sea 421 // Ron Wixman // 19 The North Caucasus: fragmentation or federation? 448 // Jane Ormrod // 20 Siberia: Native peoples and newcomers in collision 477 // Gail Fondahl // Part VIII Conclusion // 21 Making sense of matrioshka nationalism 513 // Ray Taras //
Appendix A Chronology of ethnic unrest in the USSR, 1985-92 539 // Appendix B Soviet census data, union republic and ASSR, 1989 550 // Selected reading 561 // Index