Table of Contents

1. From the impossible to the inevitable; 2. The tide and the mobilizational cycle; 3. Structuring nationalism; 4. 'Thickened' history and the mobilization of identity; 5. Tides and the failure of nationalist 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.

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This 2002 study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state.

Reviews

'... a very serious analytical work, which, no doubt, will attract the attention of many political scientists, especially those studying political processes in Russia and in the post-Soviet area ... important for the understanding of nationalism as a social and political phenomenon.' e-Extreme, Electronic Newsletter of the ECPR-SG on Extremism and Democracy '... a fresh-minded intervention ... fascinating reading ...'. Nations and Nationalism