 | Ethnic Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: Russians and Non-Russians in the North Caucasus Subjects: Area Studies; Global Development; Geography; Politics & International Relations; Central Asian Russian & Eastern European Studies; Population & Development; Regional Development; Asian Studies; Human Geography; European Politics; International Relations; Political Behavior and Participation; Regional Geography - Human Geography; Russian & Soviet Politics; Migration & Diaspora; Racial & Ethnic Politics; Asian Studies (General); While the collapse of communism in Russia was relatively peaceful, ethnic relations have been deteriorating since then. This deterioration poses a threat to the functioning of the Russian state and is a major obstacle to its future development. Analysing ethnic relations in the North Caucasus, this book demonstrates how a myriad of processes that characterised post-Soviet transition, including demographic change, economic upheaval, geopolitical instability, and political re-structuring, have affected daily life for citizens. It raises important questions about ethnicity, identity, nationalism, sovereignty, and territoriality in the post-Soviet space. Andrew Foxall is Director of the Russia Studies Centre at The Henry Jackson Society, UK. He was formerly an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK, and Lecturer in Human Geography at Queen's University Belfast, UK. |
