Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire
In his new book Familiar Strangers, Dr. Erik R. Scott reinterprets the course of modern Russian and Soviet history. Scott contests the portrayal of the Soviet Union as a Russian-led empire composed of separate national republics and instead argues that it was an empire of diasporas. Looking at the rise and fall of the Soviet Union from a Georgian perspective, Scott offers a new way of thinking about the experience of minorities in multiethnic states, with implications far beyond the borders of Russia and Eurasia.
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Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas
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