ПРИЧИНЫ ЭТНОПОЛИТИЧЕСКИХ КОНФЛИКТОВ НА ПОСТСОВЕТСКОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ, ИЛИ ДОЛГАЯ ДИСКУССИЯ В 30 ЛЕТ

Abstract

The paper is a brief review of foreign scientific literature on post-Soviet ethno-political conflicts. The author considers the formation and development of the focus of ethnopolitology regarding the causes of interethnic violence in the late Soviet and post-Soviet period. The chronological framework of its formation begins in the 1970s. when a common opinion is formed about the initial vulnerability of the multicultural and multinational nature of the union state. In the 1980s, works appeared differing in great analytical content, but also skeptical about the future unity of the Union republics, mostly due to economic reasons. The discussion reached its peak in the late 1990s – early 2000s, when the most fundamental studies on interethnic conflicts in the USSR and in the post–Soviet space appeared. The question is raised about the completed nature of the discussion in the conditions of a “frozen” state of current ethnopolitical conflicts.