Descrizione
Feltrinelli (Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Annali Anno Ventottesimo 1992 ); 1993; 9788807990489 ; Rilegato con titoli al piatto e dorso; 25 x 17,5 cm; pp. 375; A cura di M. Buttino. Traduzione di M. Eve, M. L. Rotondi. ; Presenta leggeri segni d’uso ai bordi ( imperfezioni, sbucciature e scoloriture), interno con firma e data alla prima pagina bianca; Buono, (come da foto). ; The breakup of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a long phase of decline, during which the central government became gradually less and less able to buy the loyalty of the national elites of the republics with material resources and a share of political power By the mid 1980s the leadership of the communist party had come to the conclusion that the Soviet economy was in a state of stagnation that risked becoming a catastrophic crisis, and that the profoundly corrupt and inefficient political system was no longer capable of either developing or controlling the republics. In the summer of 1991, after years of failed attempts at reform, the republics became independent and the USSR had disappeared from the map. The contributions to this volume of the Annali are revised versions of papers originally presented at an international colloquium held under the sponsorship of the Feltrinelli Foundation and the city of Cortona, with the collaboration of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (New York) and the journal Central Asian Survey. The contributions are centred on the underlying tendencies which are transforming collective identities in the USSR and causing conflicts which are visibly leading to a breakup of the Union. The focus is primarily on the southern republics those republics for whom Russia was the centre of industrial development (if not of prosperity). From the point of view of the local peoples, the Russian immigrants who are numerous especially in the larger towns and cities of the republics, are representatives of an outside world, and one which has been dominant. The political and economic crisis greatly strengthened the boundaries of ethnic identity; people found their identities changing and becoming more definite; new movements and parties were founded which legitimated themselves through nationalist discourse, conflicts emerged between the ethnic majorities of the republics, the minorities, and the Russians. In a Collapsing Empire contains discussions by historians, political scientists, anthropologists, geographers and economists. It first analyzes the roots and forms of ethnic conflict and nationalism in general terms, then it turns in greater detail to the new nationalism of the Russians, who are having to adjust to their loss of dominance, and to the centrifugal nationalisms of the southern republics of the Transcaucasus and of Islamic central Asia. ; L’immagine se disponibile, corrisponde alla copia in vendita.
