TY - CHAP A1 - Beissinger, Mark R. A2 - Barany, Zoltan A2 - Moser, Robert G. T1 - Rethinking Empire in the Wake of Soviet Collapse T2 - Ethnic Politics after Communism N2 - How does the collapse of the Soviet Union alter or confirm existing theories about empires? Perhaps the most important element of the Soviet collapse for theories of empires was the very fact that the Soviet Union was labeled an empire in the first place. After all, the Soviet Union was founded, as Terry Martin has put it, as “the world’s first postimperial state,” to the European imperial system. Y1 - 2006 UR - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41 UR - http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/material/beissinger_empire.pdf SP - 14 EP - 45 PB - Cornell University Press CY - Ithaca/London ER -