The Crimea question : identity, transition, and conflict / Gwendolyn Sasse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sasse, Gwendolyn, 1972-

Contributor:

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Series:

Harvard series in Ukrainian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crimea (Ukraine)--History.

Crimea (Ukraine).

Crimea (Ukraine)--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 400 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, [2007]

Summary:

Regional diversity such as Ukraine's often embodies potential for friction and conflict, in particular when it involves territorialized ethnicity and divergent historical experiences. Political elites interested in stability and conflict prevention must find ways either to accommodate or control this diversity. In the early to mid-1990s, the Western media, policymakers, and academics alike warned that Crimea was a potential center of unrest in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution. However, large-scale conflict in Crimea did not materialize, and Kyiv has managed to integrate the peninsula into the new Ukrainian polity. This book explores the factors that led to the largely peaceful transition and places the situation in the larger context of conflict-prevention studies, explaining this critical case in which conflict did not erupt despite a structural predisposition to ethnic, regional, and even international enmity.

Contents:

Identity and conflict in transition

Imagining Crimea : the symbols and myths of a politicized landscape

The making of history : writing and rewriting "Crimea"

The institutional legacies of territory and ethnicity

Reassessing the 1954 transfer of Crimea

The last Soviet ASSR : the mobilization of Crimean separatism

Crimea's post-Soviet Russian movement : the rise and fall of separatism

Integrating Crimea into the Ukrainian state

Crimean autonomy and its aftermath

The international dimensions of the Crimea question.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-386) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781932650013

1932650016

OCLC:

86168430