Post-Imperial Ethnocracy and the Russophone Minorities of Estonia and Latvia

The Politics of National Minority Participation in Post-Communist Societies: State-Building, Democracy and Ethnic Mobilization

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 129-166

  Melvin, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85077628497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315699257-5     Document Type: Chapter

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