Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space

’With polished cogency, this publication shows that theoretical debates concerning globalization, transnationalism and radical religious movements have not been able to shelve the significance of nationalism and identity politics. Though the volume could seem a déjà vu, its analyses based on new empirical research on nation and identity in the everyday life of peripheral European and Asian regions of former USSR are groundbreaking, stimulating for social sciences and highly topical in terms of politics.’ Christian Giordano, University of Fribourg, Switzerland ’Provides us with an impressive set of case studies of nation building projects by emerging and established scholars. These are assembled into a holistic overview of currents in Eurasia that offers refreshingly incisive theoretical insights and striking geographical breadth.’ Jeremy Morris, University of Birmingham, UK