Post-Soviet states: quest for identity and costs of independence
The author considers the complex process of the self-identification of people in the countries of the former Soviet space; analyzes the ethno-national policy in the Baltic States, Central Asia and Moldova; reveals psycho-mobilizing and psychocompensatory functions of nationalism that led to serious shortcomings in the internal policy of the newly independent states as well as to the appearance of armed and socio-political conflicts based on the above reasons.