ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: East Slavs, Civic Nationalism, Ethnic Nationalism
Document Summary
Soviet nationalities policy (snp): harness, contain and control nationalism as it can be disruptive to build socialism. National-territorial units are created, to drain nationalism and turn into proletariat: russians were about half of the population in the ussr, jews were a nationality in the ussr. Ethnic nationalism: nation comprises national majority creation of nation-state by exclusion or assimilation of ethnic minority or other groups. Civic nationalism: inclusion of ethnic minorities and multiple national identities into nation on basis of citizenship and residence on state territory, granting of equal rights to minorities: substitute for ethnic and religious identities, usa, uk, ussr. Racial identity: how do you define : 20% are non-russian. Russian speakers: what about all russian-speakers outside russia. Rossiiskii: loyalty to institutions and constitution of the russian federation. Union identity: people with a mission to create a supranational state post-soviet space, or neo-eurasianism.
