9.                 Strategies of cultural assimilation and the politics of naming



Assigned reading:


·         Laitin, David D. “Turning Megalomanians into Ruritanians.” Identity in Formation: The
Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad. Cornell University Press, 1998. 243-260

·         Laitin, David D. “The Russian-Speaking Nationality in Formation.” Identity in Formation:
The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad. Cornell University Press, 1998. 263-299