Primordialism, Identity, Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis in the post-Soviet area
Section outline
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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.