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Article: "Buying the Istrian goat": regionalism and the economy in Croatian Istria.
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- East European Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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The political scientist Janusz Bugajski labeled the 1990s the "springtime of ethnicity" in Eastern Europe due to the widespread resurgence of ethnonationalism and the politicization of national identities in the region. (1) New nationalist parties used the political and economic crises of the late 1980s and early 1990s as justifications to bring down many of the communist regimes. The nationalists were successful in mobilizing their target populations by creating overly optimistic political, social, and economic platforms and programs, which seemed to provide historical legitimacy and personal and group stability in this period of confusion and destabilization. (2) Once ...