Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey

Aktürk, Sener.

Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey [electronic resource] / Sener Aktürk. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. - xxii, 304 p. : ill., maps. - Problems of international politics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Regimes of ethnicity: comparative analysis of Germany, Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and Turkey -- The challenges to the monoethnic regime in Germany, 1955--1982 -- The construction of an assimilationist discourse and political hegemony: transition from a monoethnic to an antiethnic regime in Germany, 1982--2000 -- Challenges to the ethnicity regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish demands for recognition, 1923--1980 -- From social democracy to Islamic multiculturalism: failed and successful attempts to reform the ethnicity regime in Turkey, 1980--2009 -- The nation that wasn't there? Sovetskii Narod discourse, nation-building, and passport ethnicity, 1953--1983 -- Ethnic diversity and state-building in post-Soviet Russia: removal of ethnicity from the internal passport and its aftermath, 1992--2008 -- Dynamics of persistence and change in ethnicity regimes.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Ethnic groups--Government policy--Germany.
Ethnicity--Political aspects--Germany.
Ethnic groups--Government policy--Russia (Federation)
Ethnicity--Political aspects--Russia (Federation)
Ethnic groups--Government policy--Turkey.
Ethnicity--Political aspects--Turkey.


Germany--Ethnic relations.
Russia (Federation)--Ethnic relations.
Turkey--Ethnic relations.


Electronic books.

JN34.7 / .A57 2012

323.14