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Commercio, Michele. and Sil, Rudra. "The Legacies of Soviet Nationality Politics and Divergent Patterns of Post-Soviet Ethno-Political Mobilization: Russian Minorities in the Baltics and Central Asia." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2008-12-12 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42283_index.html>

Commercio, M. E. and Sil, R. , 2005-09-01 "The Legacies of Soviet Nationality Politics and Divergent Patterns of Post-Soviet Ethno-Political Mobilization: Russian Minorities in the Baltics and Central Asia." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2008-12-12 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p42283_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: At the time of the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russians in the Baltics had more diversified and more sustained socio-economic and political networks, while Russians in Central Asia were primarily dependent on networks linked to official institutions in which titular elites were already more influential. Drawing upon a comparison of Russian minority populations in post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan, this paper seeks to develop a partial explanation of why Russians in the Baltics generally evince a much higher degree of organization and assertiveness than is the case with Russians in Central Asian states. A key explanatory variable, we contend, is the higher level of “social capital” that Russians in the Baltics have come to possess by comparison to their counterparts in Central Asia. This, in turn, is a result of the quite different patterns of Russification that took place in the Baltic and Central Asian regions during different periods of Soviet rule. Although a number of studies have drawn attention to the legacy of Soviet institutions and policies in shaping the dynamics of change in post-Soviet states, the distinctiveness of our argument lies in its emphasis on variations in the content, durability, and effects of legacies across time and space.

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