Ethnic Relations in the USSR

Rasma Karklins is Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.

• 1. Ethnic Identity and Identification 2. The Ethnic Climate in Non-Russian Republics 3. Nationality Power: Developments and Trends 4. Ethnicity in Institutional Settings: Schools and the Armed Forces 5. Ethnicity and the Workplace 6. Ethnic Intermarriage 7. Communal Particularism

Co-winner of the 1987 American Political Science Association Ralph E. Bunche Award‘Karklins’ study marks a new stage in the development of Western scholarship on the national question in the contemporary Soviet Union.’ – Soviet Studies‘This work is in many ways a pioneering study… Dr Karklins’ study, and the large and painstaking and thoughtful survey of which it is the product, must surely qualify for the distinction of being the first full-scale and comprehensive attack on the subject using the approach and apparatus of [ethnosociology]’ – Central Asian Survey‘A balanced and informative survey.’ - Choice