From Union to Commonwealth
Subtitle: Nationalism and Separatism in the Soviet Republics (Cambridge Russian Paperbacks)
Contributors: Gail W. Lapidus (Editor); Victor Zaslavsky (Editor); Philip Goldman (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 28, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780521427166
Subjects: Political ideologies; Political structures: democracy; Politics/International Relations; Nationalism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Perestroika; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Nationalism--Soviet Union; Nationalism--Soviet Union Nationalism--Soviet; Political Science / General; Political Science / Government / International; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Soviet Union; Ethnic relations; Minorities; Perestroæika
First sentence: For decades, obsessive Soviet preoccupation with external security spurred the development of a massive military establishment as well as a gigantic military-industrial complex to support it.