Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands by Graham Smit... - 9780521599689

Cambridge University Press

Nation-building in the Post-Soviet BorderlandsThe Politics of National Identities\nAuthor(s): Graham Smith, Vivien Law, Andrew Wilson, Annette Bohr, Edward Allworth\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521599689, 978-0521599689\nSynopsis\nThis book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states. The first chapter provides a conceptual and theoretical context for examining national identities, drawing in particular upon post-colonial theory. The rest of the book is divided into three parts. In Part I, the authors examine how national histories of the borderland states are being rewritten especially in relation to new nationalising historiographies, around myths of origin, homeland, and descent. Part II explores the ethnopolitics of group boundary construction and how such a politics has led to nationalising policies of both exclusion and inclusio.