Assessment of Post-Soviet Space Ethnic Transformation at Regional Level
https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556621050058
Abstract
The ethnic transformation that followed the collapse of the USSR affected a large part of its former territory. The main feature of the post-Soviet ethnic transformation is the rapid decline in the share of the Russian population. To assess the degree of ethnic transformation of the post-Soviet space at the regional level, the method is proposed that considers the multidirectional dynamics of the share of the two main components of the population ethnic structure of most regions—the Russian population and the titular nations of states, as well as republics and national autonomies of Russia. The result of the study is a classification of regions of post-Soviet countries. In total, there are six main classes of regions that have experienced the “most radical,” “radical,” “strong,” “significant,” “small,” and “minimal” ethnic transformation. The last two regions’ groups in Russia are also divided into subgroups, where the ethnic transformation is determined by a decrease or increase in the Russian population share. The group of regions with ethnic transformation “special type” is singled out separately, where the growth of the titular population share is not associated with a drop in the Russians share. This category of regions includes unrecognized and partially recognized republics, where there was a significant non-titular population outflow as a result of military conflicts.
Keywords
population ethnic structure,
titular peoples,
Russians’ share,
neighboring countries,
post-Soviet period
Supporting agencies: The article was prepared with the financial support of the RFBR, project no. 20-05-00369 “Transformation of the Ethnocultural Space of the Post-Soviet States: Factors, Trends, Prospects.”
About the Author
A. G. Manakov
Pskov State University; Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pskov; Kaliningrad
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Manakov A.G. Assessment of Post-Soviet Space Ethnic Transformation at Regional Level. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2021;85(5):687-698. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S2587556621050058
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