This volume explores the Soviet response to the National Question, the nature of this legacy, and the likely impact of rising nationalism and ethnic conflict on the transition to democracy in the Russian Federation, the CIS and the Baltic States. It contains a comprehensive collection of specially commissioned studies from Western specialists and experts from the region itself which analyse ethnicity and nationalism in the post-Soviet phase from historical, political, sociological and philosophical viewpoints.. "Ethnicity and Nationalism is aimed at final year undergraduates, postgraduates and students of the new post-Soviet order.