GEOG 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethnic Cleansing, Crimean War, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
1 Nov 2016
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Subregions: europe (west, southwest asia, south asia, southeast asia, east asia, central asia, northern eurasia? (russia and scandinavia) The other europe: border of europe and asia. Communist legacy: socialist planning (post wwii, lacks democratic experience. Soviet answer to nato (cold war: soviet union, satellite states (all are eu/nato now) Balkanization: how it was seen as a political mass by other countries, continuation of fragmentation. (cid:862)land of the outhern la(cid:448)s(cid:863: founded in 1918. Communist (tito post-wwii: federation 6 states (central admin) Break up/devolution (1991-?: ethno-nationalism, ethnic cleansing. Caught in tension between east and west. East-west dynamic: eastern connection to russia (some identify russian, western ukrainian nationalism. Orange revolution (2004: first non-russian administration, governs awfully, poisoned governor, 2008 election (pro-russian) re-elected 2012, east-west divide/conflict, western protests (kiev) Current scheme: former soviet republics, east turkestan, kazakhstan, uzbekistan, kyrgyzstan, turkmenistan, tajikistan, east, sino-periphery (uyghur) [tibet] and mongolia, south, afghanistan, west, caucasus/caspian and azerbaijan.
