Russians as minorities, post-communist ethnic relations in five (semi-) autonomous regions of the Russian Federation

The research is a continuation and extention of the INTAS-funded survey ‘Russians as minorities: post-communist ethnic relations in the former Soviet States’ (INTAS-94-1745). The design and questionnaire will now be applied to Russian minorities and titular groups in four republics of the Russian Federation (Daghestan, Kabarda-Balkaria, Tuva, Tatarstan, Komi. The aim is:

• (i) to determine the relation between (majority- and minority-) nationalism and negative evaluations of (majority- and minority-) outgroups;
• (ii) to determine the strength of the relevant individual and social predictors of nationalism and outgroup evaluation;
• (iii) to compare the variations in strength of the determinants os nationalism and negative outgroup evaluation across the five regions and;
• (iv) to integrate the information under aim (i) to (iii) with previously gathered data in Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Kazakhstan.

Publications

Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Louk Hagendoorn

Dr. Hub Linssen, Assistant Professor

Prof. M.N. Guboglo, Insitute of Ethnology and Anthropology in Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Prof. S.Tumanov, Moscow State University, Russia

European Commision, INTAS-94-1745, E.U.

NWO, Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research, The Netherlands