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Article: Ethnic nationalism in the Russian Federation.
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- Daedalus
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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When the communist regimes collapsed, nationalism immediately came to the fore as one of the most conspicuous ideological and political factors in the development of former Second World countries. Suppressed by communism and by the postwar international political climate in general, nationalism is now emerging like steam from a pressure cooker. One obvious example is the former Yugoslavia; though the Soviet and the Czechoslovak breakups differ from the Yugoslav case in their manifestations and consequences, their underlying reasons are the same. In fact, an outburst of nationalism has affected virtually all former communist countries, including the successor states of the ...