The Soviet Union
Subtitle: federation or empire?
By: Tania Raffass
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415688338; 9780203115756
Subjects: Politics and government; Nation-state; Comparative government; Imperialism; Secession; Federal government
Table of contents: title: The original federation; title: Daniel J. Elazar's covenantal interpretation of American federalism; title: The roots of the Soviet federation; title: The American federation and secession; title: Conflicting perspectives on the dissolubility of the American union; title: Secession as a constitutional right in the USSR; title: A constitutional comparison between the Soviet and emerging western models of multinational federalism; title: On the integrative effects of federalism and consociation; title: The Soviet Union and nation; title: The Soviet state as viewed by nationalists; title: Imperial contiguity and Russia's stunted nationhood; title: Was the Soviet Union the last empire?.