Cleft Countries : Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-soviet Uk...

by Katchanovski, Ivan; Fukuyama, Francis (FRW)

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Cleft Countries : Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-soviet Ukraine and Moldova, Paperback by Katchanovski, Ivan; Fukuyama, Francis (FRW), ISBN 389821558X, ISBN-13 9783898215589, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Katchanovski (political science, U. of Toronto) traces the reasons why Ukraine, although stressed by secessionist agitation, managed to remain a single state while Moldova did not. He provides a theoretical and comparative framework based on the historical legacies of the regions through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, regional political divisions after the communist era and subsequent regional separatist movements, attitudes toward economic changes, the evolution of regional political cultures in Ukraine and Moldova and the traditional influence of cultural, ethnic, economic, political and religious leadership on whether the states would remain relatively intact. In short, he finds that westernmost regions tended to support independence while those of the east were pro-Russian and pro-communist; the latter case led to the separation of the Independent Trandniestian Republic from Moldova. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• ISBN: 9783898215589
• Condition: Fine

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