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Book SynopsisThis 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original interpretation not only of the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally.
Trade Review'… a very serious analytical work, which, no doubt, will attract the attention of many political scientists, especially those studying political processes in Russia and in the post-Soviet area … important for the understanding of nationalism as a social and political phenomenon.' e-Extreme
'… a fresh-minded intervention … fascinating reading …'. Nations and Nationalism
Table of Contents1. From the impossible to the inevitable; 2. The tide and the mobilizational cycle; 3. Structuring nationalism; 4. 'Thickened' history and the mobilization of identity; 5. Tides and the failure of nationalist mobilization; 6. Violence and tides of nationalism; 7. The transcendence of regimes of repression; 8. Russian mobilization and the accumulating 'inevitability' of Soviet collapse; 9. Conclusion: nationhood and event.
