Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey / Sener Akturk
Imprint
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Descript
xxii, 304 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Germany: 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 -- Turkey: 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 -- Soviet Union and the Russian Federation: 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
SUBJECT
Ethnic groups -- Government policy -- Germany
Ethnic groups -- Government policy -- Russia (Federation)
Ethnic groups -- Government policy -- Turkey
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Germany
Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)