>From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
><URL: http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/d-
>titles/derluguian_secret_admirer.shtml >
>Derluguian is always a great read in NLR. Has a piece in the latest
>Socialist Register, "How Soviet Bureaucracy Produced Nationalism, and what
>came of it in Azerbaijan."
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Nationalism existed in Russia and the rest of what is now the fSU long,
long, long before Soviet bureaucracy.
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In a chance encounter with the
>author, Musa Shanib—a prominent figure in Chechnya’s revolution
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Chechnya has never had a revolution, unless you count murderous interclan bloodshed and ethnic cleansing. Chechnya's developmental arc has been straight down since 1991.
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