Section outline

  • Key topics:

    Primordialism constructions, Ethnicity and Ethnogenesis in post-Soviet Area. Why the post-Soviet Area is a paradise of primordialism?

    Readings:

    Victor A. Shnirelman, „Politics of Ethnogenesis in the USSR and after,“ Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology 30(1), (2005), pp: 93–119,

    Gregor R. Suny, Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations. Journal of Modern History, Vol 73, Issue 4 (December 2001), pp. 862-896.