Rethinking Empire in the Wake of Soviet Collapse
- How does the collapse of the Soviet Union alter or confirm existing theories about empires? Perhaps the most important element of the Soviet collapse for theories of empires was the very fact that the Soviet Union was labeled an empire in the first place. After all, the Soviet Union was founded, as Terry Martin has put it, as “the world’s first postimperial state,” to the European imperial system.
| Author: | Mark R. BeissingerGND |
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| URL: | http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/material/beissinger_empire.pdf |
| Parent Title (English): | Ethnic Politics after Communism |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Place of publication: | Ithaca/London |
| Editor: | Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2006/01/01 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
| Release Date: | 2014/01/08 |
| First Page: | 14 |
| Last Page: | 45 |
| ZZF Chronological-Classification: | 20. Jahrhundert |
| ZZF Regional-Classification: | ohne regionalen Schwerpunkt |
| ZZF Topic-Classification: | Imperien |
| Studies in Contemporary History: Materials: | 1/2006 Imperien im 20. Jahrhundert 1/2006 |
| Licence (German): |  Mit freundlicher Genehmigung des jeweiligen Autors / Verlags für Online-Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Zeithistorische Forschungen |
