Cover--Half Title--Title Page--Copyright Page--Table of Contents--About the Editors and
Contributors--List of Tables--Map of the Russian Federation and the Newly Independent …

The collapse of the Soviet Union occurred remarkably swiftly and relatively smoothly,
especially when compared to the debacle of another multinational communist federation …

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Russian diaspora emerged as one of
the critical issues shaping political developments in many of the post-Soviet republics …

" Well-written and well-documented, this volume provides an excellent overview of the
history, current state, and possible future of the'Russian diaspora'as well as a more than …

Russia Abroad (zarubezhnaia Rossiia, or Russia beyond the borders) was the spontaneous
creation of the approximately 1.5 to 2 million “Russians”—in fact, culturally russified …

On the morning after the Soviet Union's collapse, millions of ethnic Russians living on the
fringes of the former Russian Republic suddenly awakened to find themselves in foreign …

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 …

Twenty-five million Russians live in the newly independent states carved from the territory of
the former Soviet Union. When they or their ancestors emigrated to these non-Russian …

Discussion of the controversial problem of the relations between the Russian people and the
peoples of many different races, languages, and cultures which from the middle of the …

The East European successor states to the Russian empire were shaped by their early
experience of war and peace, imperial collapse and new state-building, population …