Nation-Building and Identity in the Post-Soviet Space: New Tools and Approaches

Nation-building and identity in the post-Soviet space: new tools and approaches, edited by Rico Isaacs and Abel Polese, Oxon, UK and New York, USA, Routledge Post-Soviet Politics Series, 2019, 258 pp., £120.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4724-5476-8; £29.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-28135-9; £26.99 (eBook), ISBN 9781315597386 The collapse of state socialism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union have had critical impacts on the former state-socialist countries. Alongside with the political and economic restructuring, post-socialism has brought dramatic changes in the context of culture, history, memory, and identity (see, for example, Naumov and Weidenfeld 2019; Young and Light 2001). Although there has been considerable academic interest in these changes over time, the number of theoretical and empirical contributions on nation-building and politics of identity construction in the post-Soviet world is still limited