Anatoly M. Khazanov

Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Publications include After the USSR: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Politics in the Commonwealth of Independent States, University of Wisconsin Press 1995 and Soviet Nationality Policy During Perestroika, Falls Church 1991.

Articles

Contemporary Russian Nationalism between East and West

Khazanov writes that Russia currently lacks a consensus with regard to the concept of nation, and that common identifications are very weak. In these conditions of social and political fragmentation, nationalism has become a very important factor in the country’s development.

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