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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Nationalism During Perestroika and Afterwards

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Anatoly Khazanov
Anatoly Khazanov*
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University of Wisconsin
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*“Democracy is next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities.”

—John Stuart Mill

“I have no doubt that this great Eastern Slav empire … has entered the last decades of its existence … Marxist doctrine has delayed the break-up of the Russian Empire—the Third Rome—but it does not possess the power to prevent it.”

—Andrei Amal'rik

Our times do not make much of prophets. The Soviet dissident, Andrei Amal'rik, went to the Gulag for his prophecy, which nevertheless turned out to be remarkably correct.

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II The USSR and Beyond
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Special Issue - Ethnopolitics in Poland , Spring 1994 , pp. 157 - 174
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Copyright © 1994 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR 

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The work on this article was supported from funds provided by the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, which however is not responsible for its contents and conclusions.

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