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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820345203321

Autore

Diuk Nadia

Titolo

The next generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan [[electronic resource] ] : youth, politics, identity, and change / / Nadia M. Diuk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012

ISBN

1-280-65981-5

9786613636744

1-4422-1373-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

305.2350947

Soggetti

Youth - Former Soviet republics

Youth - Ukraine

Youth - Azerbaijan

Youth - Russia (Federation)

Youth - Political activity - Former Soviet republics

Youth - Political activity - Ukraine

Youth - Political activity - Azerbaijan

Youth - Political activity - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Youth: the next generation. The first free generation ; Struggles for power ; Portrait of a generation ; News, leisure, and lifestyle -- The history of youth ; "Toward a shining future" ; Youth in a time of transition ; Glasnost, perestroika, and the Komsomol ; Youth and the oligarchs ; Youth on the threshold ; Leaders and lidery ; Education and national identity -- Ukraine, land of paradoxes. Youth as an agent of change? ; Land of paradoxes ; The revolution on granite ; Reconsolidation of the elite ; State sponsored youth ; Gongadze: prologue to the Orange Revolution ; Struggle for the youth vote ; Society grows ; Youth in the Orange Revolution and after ; Seeking an identity -- Azerbaijan: from Mugham to Facebook. Identity and the next generation ; War in Karabagh ; Fathers and sons ; The pull of patriarchalism ; Politics, culture, and civil society ; The orange effect ;



Identity and internet -- Russia: redefining the nation. Russia redux ; The elusive middle class ; Leadership and generational change ; Youth on the move: the 1990s ; Youth and politics ; Orange surprise ; Our youth: Nashi ; Depoliticized nation -- Three countries in comparative perspective. National identity and language ; Relations with other countries and foreign travel ; Youth and the international dimension ; Toward a political identity ; Equality vs. freedom ; Values and beliefs ; What kind of politics? -- Looking to the future. Conflict, collaboration or co-optation? ; Next generation rising.

Sommario/riassunto

Using polling data, news stories, government reports, and interviews, Nadia M. Diuk shows how the next generation of leaders in shaping three of the most important countries in the former Soviet Union.