Russian Political Regime Change and Strategies of Diversity Management: From a Multinational Federation towards a Nation-State

Zamyatin, K.

Abstract

This paper explores the impact of the political regime change in post-Soviet Russia on the country’s strategy of diversity management. The paper will start with an overview of possible government responses to diversity. In this conceptual framework, the paper will follow the evolution of the place envisaged for diversity in the country’s political identity and political institutions in the post-Soviet period. The study will propose a periodization based on contrasting responses of the state to the diversity challenge in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. The political regime change correlated with the shift in the political institutional model from a multinational federation towards a nation-state. The new vision of political identity was reflected in the strategies of diversity management.

Citation

Zamyatin, K. (2016). Russian Political Regime Change and Strategies of Diversity Management: From a Multinational Federation towards a Nation-State. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 15(1), 19-49

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Online Publication Date: Apr 21, 2016
• Publication Date: Apr 21, 2016
• Deposit Date: Apr 20, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: May 24, 2018
• Journal: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
• Electronic ISSN: 1617-5247
• Publisher: European Centre for Minority Issues
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-49
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1333724
• Publisher URL: http://www.ecmi.de/publications/detail/issue-1-2016-353/