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The recent dramatic political changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have not only been centred around the disintegration of the socialist system. In several cases, the resurgence of nationalist movements and ethnic conflicts has played a crucial role. This has drawn attention to the fact that the Soviet Union inherited the geopolitical configuration of Czarist Russia.
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Bøckman, H. (1992). The Brewing Ethnic Conflicts in China and Their Historical Background. In: Rupesinghe, K., King, P., Vorkunova, O. (eds) Ethnicity and Conflict in a Post-Communist World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22213-1_12
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