National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies: The Cases of Estonia and Moldova

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Why has social peace been preserved in some new, nationalizing countries in Eastern Europe and broken down in others While civil peace has reigned in Estonia, Moldova experienced a bloody civil war in 1992, claiming more than a thousand casualties. These two states in question share a number of common characteristics, but there is one important difference. Employing both on the ground empirical studies and a strong theoretical framework, National Integration and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies contributes to a better understanding of national integration process in Estonia and Moldova and of national integration and communal violence in general.

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This book should be essential reading for anyone interested in gaining a more nuanced understanding not only of the cases at hand, but also of the general dynamics of ethnic relations within the former USSR more generally. -- David J. Smith, University of Glasgow
The chapters in this edited book hang together unusually well, and the editor has done a fine job of tying together the arguments about both culture and contingency that arise in the contributors' well-crafted essays. * Slavic Review *

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Pal Kolstoo is professor of Russian and East European area studies, University of Oslo.