Table of Contents

What Kind of Empire Was the Soviet Union? Ethnos, Nation, and the State On Some Aspects of Ethnic Conflicts The Caucasian Cauldron Central Asia Kazakhstan Ukraine Inside the Russian Federation: Russia and Tatarstan Russians in the Near Abroad and the Problem of "Neo-imperialism" On Russian Nationalism Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

GEORGIY I. MIRSKY is a graduate of Moscow's Institute of Oriental Studies and has taught at the Institute of International Relations in Moscow, American University in Washington, D.C., and the London School of Economics and Political Science./e At this writing, he is a senior research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow and a visiting scholar at the Center for International Studies at Princeton University.