By Veljko Vujačić
ISBN-10: 1107074088
ISBN-13: 9781107074088
This booklet examines the position of Russian and Serbian nationalism in several modes of dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1991. Why did Russia's elites comply with the dissolution of the Soviet Union alongside the borders of Soviet republics, leaving twenty-five million Russians outdoor of Russia? Conversely, why did Serbia's elite achieve mobilizing Serbs in Croatia and Bosnia for the nationalist reason? Combining a Weberian emphasis on interpretive realizing and counterfactual research with theories of nationalism, Veljko Vujačić highlights the function of old legacies, nationwide myths, collective stories, and literary narratives in shaping diametrically hostile attitudes towards the kingdom in Russia and Serbia. The emphasis at the accidental results of communist nationality coverage highlights how those attitudes interacted with institutional elements, favoring diverse results in 1991. The book's postscript examines how this rationalization holds up within the mild of Russia's annexation of Crimea.
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27 Susan L. Woodward, “Diaspora or the Dangers of Disunification? , The New European Diasporas (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2000), pp. 159–214. 24 II. Contentious Events, Political Processes, and Different Outcomes 23 More challenging to the validity of our comparison is the argument that the difference in geographic size, economic wealth, and historical status of the two countries renders the comparison inadequate. Indeed, what did Russia as the largest and richest among the republics have to lose by Soviet dissolution, especially since subsidies from the Soviet center were paid for by Russia’s natural resources?
319. 27 Susan L. Woodward, “Diaspora or the Dangers of Disunification? , The New European Diasporas (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2000), pp. 159–214. 24 II. Contentious Events, Political Processes, and Different Outcomes 23 More challenging to the validity of our comparison is the argument that the difference in geographic size, economic wealth, and historical status of the two countries renders the comparison inadequate. Indeed, what did Russia as the largest and richest among the republics have to lose by Soviet dissolution, especially since subsidies from the Soviet center were paid for by Russia’s natural resources?
Thus, it could be argued that Russians in Russia itself had fewer incentives to care about their prospective diaspora, since a considerably smaller proportion of Russians would be left outside the borders of a truncated Russia. The contrast appears even more dramatic if we keep in mind the difference in the absolute size of the two populations and countries. After all, given Russia’s territory, population Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Rebuilding Russia (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991). 23 22 Russians and Serbs in the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia size, and natural resources, there were few incentives to pursue an aggressive nationalist policy.
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