Ethnicity Nationalism and Conflict in and after the Soviet Union

This book provides a penetrative study of major conflicts resulting from theoretical analysis of such phenomena as post-Soviet new diasporas and forced migration demonstrated by the case of ethnic Russians ethnic violence illustrated by the Osh conflict in Central Asia the anatomy of ethnic cleansing traced through the Osset-Ingush conflict the ambitions of leaders and the arrogance of force displayed in the Chechen War.