book chapter
The collapse of the Soviet Union: nationalism during perestroika and afterwards (1985-summer 1992)
After the USSR: ethnicity, nationalism, and politics in the commonwealth of independent states • Madison, Wis. • Published In 1995 • Pages: 2-53
By: Khazanov, Anatoly M. (Anatoly Michailovich).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This analysis of developments in the Soviet Union under Gorbachev’s gradual political and economic reforms focuses on the power relations between the Russian-dominated central government in Moscow and the ethnically-constituted republics and special administrative areas within the union (for which considerable historical background is given). Although reforms were meant to preserve and strengthen the USSR, pressure for increased autonomy and cultural rights within the minority enclaves led to disintegration. Ironically, the final push came from the demographically and politically dominant ethnic Russians who should have been Gorbachev's natural allies in his effort to preserve the union. (See Khazanov [1995 “References”] for bibliographic references.)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Economic planning and development
- Speech
- Ethnic stratification
- Social relationships and groups
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Government institutions
- Political machines
- Political movements
- Instigation of war
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1992
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Anatoly M. Khazanov
- for bibliograpical references, see document 104:Khazanov
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95005696
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nationalism--Former Soviet republics