Problemy upravlenii︠a︡ v sfere mezhnat︠s︡ionalʹnykh otnosheniĭ (predposylki i formy razreshenii︠a︡ mezhnat︠s︡ionalʹnykh konfliktov)

A textbook on the management of interethnic relations within the Russian Federation. The work examines a number of nationality conflicts that have occurred on the territory of the former Soviet Union. The work was financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) through the Eurasia Fund. Chapter headings: The concept of ethnic sociology. The nationality issue in Russian social philosophy. The history of ethnic processes in the Russian Empire. Ethnic processes in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia. Demographic characteristics of ethnosociological processes. Social dynamics of ethnocultural processes. Structure and forms of ethnic conflict: nationalism in Ukraine and Kazakhstan; nationality make-up of the Russian Federation; Russian national identity; Russians outside the Russian Federation; migrants; economic nationalism; Russia and Central Asia; conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh; the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict; the Ossetian-Ingush conflict; Chechnia. The problems of administration in a multiethnic society.