The Crimea question
Subtitle: identity, transition, and conflict
By: Gwendolyn Sasse.
Series: Harvard series in Ukrainian studies
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781932650013
Subjects: Crimea (Ukraine) -- History; Crimea (Ukraine) -- Politics and government
Description: "Crimea's multiethnicity is the most colorful and politically relevant expression of Ukraine's regional diversity. History, memory, and myth are deeply inscribed in Crimea's landscape. These cultural and institutional echoes from different historical periods have played a crucial role in post-Soviet Ukraine. In the early to mid-1990s, the Western media, policymakers, and academics alike warned that Crimea was a potential center of unrest and instability in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution. However, large-scale conflict in Crimea did not materialize, and Kyiv has managed to integrate the peninsula into the new Ukrainian polity. This book traces the imperial legacies, in particular identities and institutions of the Russian and Soviet period, and post-Soviet transition politics. Both frame Crimea's potential for conflict and the dynamics of conflict prevention. As a critical case in which conflict did not erupt despite a structural predisposition to ethnic, regional, and even international enmity, the Crimea question is located in the larger context of conflict and conflict prevention studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-386) and index.
Table of contents: title: Identity and conflict in transition; title: Imagining Crimea : the symbols and myths of a politicized landscape; title: The making of history : writing and rewriting "Crimea"; title: The institutional legacies of territory and ethnicity; title: Reassessing the 1954 transfer of Crimea; title: The last Soviet ASSR : the mobilization of Crimean separatism; title: Crimea's post-Soviet Russian movement : the rise and fall of separatism; title: Integrating Crimea into the Ukrainian state; title: Crimean autonomy and its aftermath; title: The international dimensions of the Crimea question.