Georgia’s Identity Crisis

A year after the election that ended the rule of president Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement, Georgia has seen further remarkable developments that raise key questions for struggling postcommunist democracies and,…

To grasp what is happening in the former USSR, we must examine the types of nationalism that flourish there.

Except for the Baltic states, the countries of the former Soviet Union may be less democratic today than in the last years of the USSR.