Elites and Identities in Post-Soviet Space - 9781138118461

Taylor & Francis

Elites and Identities in Post-Soviet SpaceAuthor(s): David Lane\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138118461, 978-1138118461\nSynopsis\nThe dissolution of the communist system led to the creation of new states and the formation of new concepts of citizenship in the post-Soviet states of Central and Eastern Europe.\n\nThe formation of national identity also occurred in the context of the process of increasing economic and political globalisation, particularly the widening of the European Union to include the central European post-socialist and Baltic States. Internationally, Russia sought to establish a new identity either as a European or as a Eurasian society and had to accommodate the interests of a wider Russian Diaspora in the near abroad. \n\nThis book addresses how domestic elites (regional, political and economic) influenced the formation of national identities and the ways in which citizenship has been def.