Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation
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Dmitry P. Gorenburg
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This book explains how state institutions affect ethnic mobilization. It focuses on how ethno-nationalist movements emerge on the political arena, develop organizational structures, frame demands, and attract followers. It does so in the context of examining the widespread surge of nationalist sentiment that occurred through the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It shows that even during this period of institutional upheaval, pre-existing ethnic institutions affected the tactics of the movement leaders. It challenges the widely held perception that governing elites can kindle latent ethnic grievances virtually at will to maintain power. It argues that nationalist leaders can't always mobilize widespread popular support and that their success in doing so depends on the extent to which ethnicity is institutionalized by state structures. It shifts the study of ethnic mobilization from the whys of its emergence to the hows of its development as a political force.
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Review
"Gorenburg marshals an impressive array of evidence to demonstrate the ways in which ethnic institutions shaped cultural mobilization within Russia's republics. The result is a work that is both rich in detail and consequential for institutionalist understandings of ethnic politics." Mark Beissinger, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"This study applies institutionalist analysis to the question of nationalist mobilization in four republics of the Russian Federation. By emphasizing distinct mass-mobilization patterns, it goes beyond previous institutionalist interpretations that have tended to focus exclusively on elite-level nationalism. Because of its careful empirical tracing of mass-based nationalist mobilization, it makes a significant contribution to our knowledge about nationalism in the Russian Federation and beyond." Lars-Erik Cederman, Harvard University
"A treasure trove of data, rich narrative, and critical questions that students of ethnic nationalism, center-periphery relations, democratization, and social movement would do well to mine further." Slavic Review
"This impressive volume by Dmitry P. Gorenburg adds to the growing literature on the rise of nationalist movements in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet state." American Journal of Sociology
"A most useful book." APSA Perspectives on Politics