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BookAuthors
Gail W. Lapidus, ed. - Faculty Member at CISAC, Stanford
Victor Zaslavsky, ed. - Sociology Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Philip Goldman - Pre-doc at University of California at Berkeley
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Cambridge University Press, page(s): 127 pages
1992
Publication no. 0 521 42716 9
The dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 and the emergence of 15 independent states on its territory mark the end not only of the Soviet system itself but also of a centuries-long process of state-building that created the Russian empire. In the process of serving and extending this empire, the Soviet state unwittingly stimulated a process of nation-building among its constituent peoples. which ultimately contributed to its collapse. The papers presented in this volume are an attempt to analyze and comment on the origins, evolution, and demise of protracted experiment.
