Russian-speaking Populations in the Post-Soviet Space

Ammon Cheskin is Senior Lecturer in Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. His work focuses largely on ‘Russian speakers’ in the post-Soviet space. His monograph Russian Speakers in Post-Soviet Latvia: Discursive Identity Strategies was published in 2016 by the University of Edinburgh Press, UK.Angela Kachuyevski is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arcadia University, Philadelphia, USA. She specialises in conflict resolution, critical security studies and divided societies, with a particular focus on conflicts involving Russian-speaking minorities in Ukraine, the Baltic States and Moldova.

• Introduction: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Post-Soviet Space: Language, Politics and Identity Ammon Cheskin and Angela Kachuyevski1. Minority Reconsidered: Towards a Typology of Latvia’s Russophone Identity Mārtiņš Kaprāns and Inta Mieriņa2. Identity and Media-use Strategies of the Estonian and Latvian Russian-speaking Populations Amid Political CrisisTriin Vihalemm, Jānis Juzefovičs and Marianne Leppik3. Diversity in Daugavpils: Unpacking Identity and Cultural Engagement among Minority School Youth in Eastern LatviaIndra Ekmanis4. Where Do I Belong? Narratives of Rodina among Russian-speaking Youth in KazakhstanAlina Jašina-Schäfer5. Russian-speaking Belarusian Nationalism: An Ethnolinguistic Identity Without a Language? Marharyta Fabrykant6. The Ukrainian–Russian Linguistic Dyad and its Impact on National Identity in Ukraine Nadiia Bureiko and Teodor Lucian Moga7. Identity in Transformation: Russian-speakers in Post-Soviet Ukraine Volodymyr Kulyk