The Russians: Diaspora and the end of empire

Nations Abroad: Diaspora Politics And International Relations In The Former Soviet Union

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 27-57

  Melvin, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429498732-2     Document Type: Chapter

References (54)

1. See Chauncy Harris, “The New Russian Minorities: A Statistical Overview, " Post-Soviet Geography 34, no. 1 (1993): 1-27.
2. Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 107-47.
3. For an analysis of the competing and changing definition of Russia and Russian lands, see Ladis Kristoff, “The Geographical Image of the Fatherland: The Case of Russia, " Western Political Quarterly 20, no. 4 (1967): 941-54;
4. Mark Bassin, “Russia between Europe and Asia: The Ideological Construction of Geographical Space, " Slavic Review 50, no. 1 (1991): 1-17.
5. Valery Tishkov, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict in and after the Soviet Union: The Mind Aflame (London: Sage, 1997).
6. Rogers Brubaker, “Nationhood and the National Question in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Eurasia: An Institutionalist Account, " Theory and Society 23, no. 1 (1994): 47-78;
7. idem, “Political Dim ensions of Migration From and Among Soviet Successor States, " in Myron Weiner, ed., International Migration and Security (Boulder: Westview, 1993), 39-64.
8. Paul Kolstoe, Russians in the Former Soviet Republics (London: Hurst, 1995), 14-40.
9. Jeff Chinn and Robert Kaiser, Russians as the New Minority: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Successor States (Boulder: Westview, 1996), 44-51.
10. Jeffrey Brooks, When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), 216, 241.
11. Willard Sunderland, “Russians into Yakuts? ‘Going Native’ and Problems of Russian National Identity in the Siberian North, 1870s-1914, " Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (1996): 806-25.
12. Richard Pipes, The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917-1923, new rev. ed. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
13. For a discussion of the imperial character of the Soviet state, see Mark R. Beissinger, “The Persisting Ambiguity of Empire, " Post-Soviet Affairs 11, no. 2 (1995): 149-84;
14. Ronald Grigor Suny, “Ambiguous Categories: States, Empires and Nations, " Post-Soviet Affairs 11, no. 2 (1995): 185-96;
15. Walter Kolarz, Russia and Her Colonies (New York: Praeger, 1952);
16. Dominic Lieven, “The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union as Imperial Polities, " Journal of Contemporary History 30, no. 4 (1995): 607-36;
17. Alexander J. Motyl, “From Imperial Decay to Imperial Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Empire in Comparative Perspective, " in Richard L. Rudolph and David F. Good, eds., Nationalism and Empire: The Habsburg Monarchy and the Soviet Union (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), 15-43;
18. Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, eds., The End of Empire? The Transformation of the USSRin Comparative Perspective (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997), 3-29, 65-93, 243-60.
19. Frederick Barghoorn, Soviet Russian Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956), 3-91.
20. For rates of assimilation, see S. Bruk and V. Kabuzan, “Dinam ika chislennosti i rasseleniia russkikh posle Velikoi oktiabr’skoi sotsialisticheskoi revoliuts ii, ' Sovetskaia etnografiia, no. 5 (1982): 3-21;
21. Robert Lewis, Richard Rowland, and Ralph Clem, Nationality and Population Change in Russia and the USSR (New York: Praeger, 1976), 216.
22. Bruk and Kabuzan, Dinamika, 3-21;
23. I. Gurich, “Sovrem ennye napravleniia etnicheskikh protsessov v SSSR, " Sovetskaia etnografiia, no. 4 (1972): 16-33;
24. John B. Dunlop, “Will a Large-Scale Migration of Russians to the Russian Republic Take Place Over the Current Decade?" International Migration Review 27, no. 3 (1993): 605-29.
25. Roman Szporluk, “The Fall of the Tsarist Empire and the USSR: The Russian Question and Im perial Overextension, " in Daw isha and Parrott, eds., The End of Empire?, 73-74.
26. Iu. V. Arutiunian, ed., Russkie: etno-sotsiologicheskie ocherki (Moscow: Nauka, 1992).
27. Leokardia Drobizheva, “Perestroika and the Ethnic Consciousness of Russians, " in Gail Lapidus, Viktor Zaslavsky, and Philip Goldman, eds., From Union to Commonwealth: Nationalism and Separatism in the Soviet Republics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 98-113.
28. Tishkov, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict, 246-71.
29. “Foreign Minister Kozyrev Outlines Parliament’s Role in Foreign Policy, " SWB-SU, February 5, 1994;
30. “Kozyrev Warns Against Violations of Rights of Russian Minorities in Former USSR, " SWB-SU, January 21, 1994.
31. “Obosnovnykh napravleniakh gosudarstvennoi politiki Rossiiskoi Federatsii v otnoshenii sootechestvennikov prozhivaiushchikh za rubezhom, " Rossiiskaia gazeta, September 22, 1994.
32. Andrei Edemsky and Paul Kolstoe, “Russia’s Policy Towards the Diaspora, " in Kolstoe, Russians, 261.
33. Russian citizens outside Russia were to form the core of the group that qualified as compatriots. See the interview with Abdullah Mikitaev, Chairman of the Presidential Com mission for Questions of Citizenship, in Diplomaticheskii vestnik, no. 2 (1995): 52.
34. George Ginzburgs, “Citizenship and State Succession in Russia’s Treaty and Domestic Repertory, " unpublished paper, 1995.
35. The Ukrainian parliament adopted a new citizenship law barring dual citizenship in the republic. “Ukraine Tightens Citizenship Requirements, " OMRI Daily Digest, November 4, 1996.
36. “Russia, Belarus Lecture Balts on Human Rights, " Jamestown Foundation Monitor, November 25, 1996;
37. “Developments in Russian Policy Signal Intensified Pressure, " Jamestown Foundation Monitor, February 12, 1997.
38. For example, Russia pursued an active policy in relation to the future of the Russian language in Kazakhstan. “Kazakhhstan’s Language Law Seeks to Equalize Native Language With Russian, " Jamestown Foundation Monitor, November 26, 1996;
39. “Kazakhh Premier Under Pressure in Moscow, " Jamestown Foundation Monitor, November 27, 1996.
40. “Dum a Backs Keeping Russian Troops in Moldova, " Jamestown Foundation Monitor, November 14, 1996;
41. “Federation Council Favors International Status For Sevastopol, " RFE/RL Newsline, April 18, 1997.
42. Deklaratsiia o podderzhke Rossiiskoi Federatsiei rossiiskoi diaspory i o pokrovitel’stve rossiiskim sootechestvennikam (passed by the Duma on December 8, 1995).
43. Neil Melvin, Russians Beyond Russia: The Politics of National Identity (London: Pinter, 1995), 22-24.
44. Igor Zevelev, “Russia and the Russian Diasporas, " Post-Soviet Affairs 12, no. 3 (1996): 265-66.
45. John Barber, “Russia: A Crisis of Post-im perial Viability, " Political Studies 42, special issue (1994): 46-48.
46. Reports on the diverse experience in the in dividual republics can be found in Chinn and Kaiser, Russians, 93-267;
47. Kolstoe, Russians, 105-258
48. Pál Kolsto, “The New Russian Diaspora-An Identity of Its Own? Possible Identity Trajectories for Russians in the Former Soviet Republics, " Ethnic and Racial Studies 19, no. 3 (1996): 622-32;
49. Melvin, Russians, 25-123.
50. Erik André Andersen, “The Legal Status of Russians in Estonian Privatization Legislation 1989-1995, " Europe-Asia Studies 49, no. 2 (1997): 303-16.
51. “Latvian President Warns of Growing Ethnic Tension, " RFE/RL Newsline, July 11, 1997.
52. Tishkov, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict, 115-34.
53. Vladimir Mesamed, “Interethnic Relations in the Republic of Uzbekistan, " Central Asian Monitor, no. 6 (1996): 24.
54. Dunlop, “Will a Large-Scale Migration, " 605-29.