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Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey

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Akturk discusses how the definition of being German, Soviet, Russian and Turkish radically changed at the turn of the twenty-first century. Germany's ethnic citizenship law, the Soviet Union's inscription of ethnic origins in personal identification documents and Turkey's prohibition on the public use of minority languages, all implemented during the early twentieth century, underpinned the definition of nationhood in these countries. Despite many challenges from political and societal actors, these policies did not change for many decades, until around the turn of the twenty-first century, when Russia removed ethnicity from the internal passport, Germany changed its citizenship law and Turkish public television began broadcasting in minority languages. Using a new typology of 'regimes of ethnicity' and a close study of primary documents and numerous interviews, Sener Akturk argues that the coincidence of three key factors – counterelites, new discourses and hegemonic majorities – explains successful change in state policies toward ethnicity.

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ISBN: 9781107021433
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Author: ener Assistant Professor, Koç University, Istanbul Aktürk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 322 pages
Series: Problems of International Politics
Genres: Comparative politics
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies