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The
Russian Diaspora and Post-communist Political and Economic Transformation
- Principal
Researchers
Dr
Neil Melvin
- Department
of Politics
- ESS
Building
- University
of Leeds
- Leeds
LS2 9JT
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- Dr
Laszlo Czaban
- Leeds
Business School
- University
of Leeds
- Leeds
LS2 9JT
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- Contact
- Dr
Neil Melvin
- Tel:
0113 233 4401
- Fax:
0113
- Email:
n.j.melvin@leeds.ac.uk
- Internet:
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- Duration
of Research
- 1
October 1998 to 30 June 2002
Annual
Report 2001
Short
summary
The
disintegration of the Soviet Union marked the emergence of one of the
largest diaspora populations in the world. This interdisciplinary study
(politics/business studies) is designed to explore the complex relationship
between the development of ethnic and national identities within and around
a transnational community in an environment of simultaneous economic transition
and globalisation. The subject of research will be upon the link between
the Russian diaspora and economic transformation in the former Soviet
Union. A particular focus for analysis will be the tensions generated
by the interlinking of transnational ethno-political and business networks
within the context of the nation and state-building imperatives of the
former Soviet republics.
Analysis
will focus on five case study regions: north-eastern Kazakhstan, eastern
Ukraine, Estonia, Dagestan and Tatarstan. Comparative analysis of the
nature and functions of political and business networks linking Russian
diaspora communities with the Russian `homeland' and beyond to the global
economy will be undertaken to explore the different patterns
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