Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the Soviet State - Beissinger, Mark R. (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
This study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state. The author uses data and case studies from across the USSR to elicit the shifting relationship between existing structural conditions and institutional constraints
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. From the impossible to the inevitable -- 2. The tide of nationalism and the mobilizational cycle -- 3. Structuring nationalism -- 4. "Thickened" history and the mobilization of identity -- 5. Tides and the failure of mationalist mobilization -- 6. Violence and tides of nationalism -- 7. The transcendence of regimes of repression -- 8. Russian mobilization and the accumulating "inevitability" of Soviet collapse -- 9. Conclusion: nationhood and event -- App. I. Procedures for applying event analysis to the study of Soviet protest in the Glasnost era -- App. II. Sources for the compilation of event data in a revolutionary context