Following the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the rapid political, social and economic change that ensued, widespread population movements took place across the former …
Whether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia's vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land …
G Smith, A Wilson - Europe-Asia Studies, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
ONE OF THE MAJOR RESEARCH FOCI to emerge within post-Soviet studies has been the issue of the Russian diaspora. 1 While work to date has drawn attention to the possibilities …
WR Brubaker - International migration review, 1992 - journals.sagepub.com
The breakup of the Soviet Union has transformed yesterday's internal migrants, secure in their Soviet citizenship, into today's international migrants of contested legitimacy and …
P Kolstø - Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
The collapse of the unitary Soviet state has plunged its former citizens into a profound identity crisis. Particularly hard hit are the twenty‐five million Russians living in the non …
M Suslov - Russie. Nei. Visions, 2017 - academia.edu
This paper examines how the large Russian-speaking population outside Russia has been ideologically constructed and politically instrumentalized by the Kremlin's leadership. It …
The collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe brought widespread fear of a'tidal wave'of immigrants from the East into Western Europe. Quite apart from the social and …
Jeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge focuses on the hundreds of thousands …
T Heleniak - Journal of International Affairs, 2004 - JSTOR
When the Soviet Union broke up at the end of 1991, 25.2 million Russians became part of a large diaspora population" without moving an inch or leaving their homes." 1 They went from …