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This book collects 8 thoroughly revised articles and book chapters, together with a new introductory theoretical chapter, based on Pål Kolst 's 30 years of study of nationalism and ethnic conflict in post-Soviet states. In them, Kolst examines how the drivers behind ethnic conflicts in the non-Russian republics were not only struggles for collective identities but also more mundane interests, such as competition for jobs and positions. He also analyses the transformations of Russian nationalism, both among the ruling elite and in the opposition, with a particular focus on the use of symbolism. Exploring nationalism as a pervasive feature of politics in the modern world, Kolst argues that both state leaders and 'ethnic entrepreneurs' employ nationalist rhetoric and stratagems to further their political agendas and achieve particular goals. He examines some of the ways this is used as a political strategy and focuses both on nationalism at the societal level and as a state strategy.
Pål Kolstø is Professor of Russian and post-Soviet Studies at the University of Oslo. Kolstø specializes in ethnic relations, nationalism and religion in Russia, other former Soviet republics and the Western Balkans. He is the author/editor of ten English-language books on these topics, including The New Russian Nationalism: Imperialism, Ethnicity and Authoritarianism, 2000-2015, 2016, and Russia Before and After Crimea: Nationalism and Identity, 2010-17, 2018, both published by Edinburgh University Press and co-edited with Helge Blakkisrud. His latest monographs are Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space, Edinburgh University Press 2022, and Heretical Orthodoxy: Lev Tolstoi and the Russian Orthodox Church, 2022.
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