Minorities in the Post-Soviet Space Thirty Years After the Dissolution of the USSR
Journal: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Year: 2022

When the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991, the Russian Federation and the newly independent republics of the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia engaged in redefining their national identity in a challenging regional and global context. The stances and policies towards the minorities living in these countries became part of the striving towards national independence and identity formation. Despite vastly different post-Soviet nation-building trajectories, the development and implementation of