Download or read book Center-periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia written by Mikhail A. Alexseev and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Soviet Union break up, whereas the Russian Federation has so far held together in the face of ostensibly similar secession crises? To what extent is regional separatism a product of economic incentives or local ethnic identity? Few areas of the world display a greater complexity of ethnic relations than the post Soviet empire, and there are few with greater long term strategic significance. Drawing on political science, sociology, and anthropology, this study asks why political elites in some regions in post-Soviet Russia have shown more of a proclivity for separatism from Moscow than others.