The recent history of post-Soviet societies is heavily shaped by the successor nations' efforts
to geopolitically re-identify themselves and to reify certain majorities in them. As a result
of these fascinating processes various new ideologies have appeared. Some are specific to the
post-Soviet space while others are comparable to ideational processes in other parts of the
world. In this collected volume an international group of contributors delves deeper into
recent theoretical constructions of various post-Soviet majorities the ideologies that justify
them and some respectively formulated policy prescriptions. The first part analyzes
post-Soviet state-builders' fixation on certain constructed majorities as well as on these
imagined communities' symbolic self-identifications in- or outward othering and national
languages. The second part deals specifically with post-Soviet ideas of sovereigntism and the
way they define majorities as well as imply changes in internal and external policies and legal
systems. These processes are analyzed in comparison to similar phenomena in Western societies.
The book's contributors include (in the order of their appearance): Natalia Kudriavtseva Petra
Colmorgen Nadiia Koval Ivan Gomza Augusto Dala Costa Roman Horbyk Yana Prymachenko Yuliya
Yurchuk Oleksandr Fisun Nataliya Vinnykova Ruslan Zaporozhchenko Mikhail Minakov Gulnara
Shaikhutdinova and Yurii Mielkov.
