Ethnic Mobilization, Political Process, and the Demise of the USSR: An Event Analysis

[01:31 . 36]本研究通过对在开放时期席卷前苏联的大规模动乱浪潮的实证调查，扩展了我们对民族主义动员的理解。在本研究期间，将完成一套关于前苏联数千次示威、罢工和大规模暴力事件的独特事件级数据，以探索政治变革的动态和政治机会在构建民族意识和民族动员方面所起的作用。这些数据是目前存在的关于前苏联大规模抗议活动的唯一系统和详细记录。在以往研究的基础上，该项目利用这组独特的数据为公开性抗议周期提供了新的见解，并探索了政治行为如何构建种族认同和种族政治行动。与研究民族主义动员的传统方法不同，本研究将政治舞台本身作为决定民族群众行动性质和强度的关键因素。该项目特别侧重于政治自由化、精英冲突和更替、政府强制和选举竞争对族裔动员和冲突的影响。收集到的有关这些因素的数据用于探讨它们在引发民族动员浪潮和形成抗议性质方面的作用。

9310036 Beissinger This research extends our understanding of nationalist mobilization through an empirical investigation of the wave of mass unrest that engulfed the former USSR during the glasnost'period. A unique set of event-level data on thousands of demonstrations, strikes, and mass violent events in the former Soviet Union to be completed during this research will explore the role played by the dynamics of political change and political opportunities in structuring national consciousness and ethnic mobilization. The data are the only systematic and detailed record of mass protest activity in the former USSR currently in existence. Building on previous research, the project uses this unique set of data to provide new insights into the glasnost'protest cycle, as well as to explore the ways in which politics acts to structure ethnic identitites and ethnic political action. Unlike traditional approaches to the study of nationalist mobilization, this study takes the political arena itself as a key factor in determining the nature and intensity of ethnic mass action. In particular, the project focuses on the effects of political liberalization, elite conflict and turnover, governmental coercion, and electoral competition on ethnic mobilization and conflict. Data gathered on these factors are used to explore their roles in triggering waves of ethnic mobilization and in shaping the character of protest.