The Rise of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts

Gail Lapidus is head of the Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies at the Center for slavic and East European Studies and professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. She recently returned from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union where she continued her research of the evolution of Soviet strategies for managing a multinational state and the impact of ethnonationalism on long-term political stability. Her most recent books include:State and Society in the USSR and The Glasnost Papers: Voices on Reform from Moscow.
Part of the World Affairs Series: Eastern Europe and the World in Transition