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The State enterprise was the most conspicuous symbol of the socialist economy. In the late 1980s the gradual demise of the command system based on State ownership and the restructuring of economic relations were accompanied by the introduction of a variety of new forms of commercial organisation into the Soviet legal system.

Diasporas are usually defined as ethnic groups that lack a territorial base in a given polity. Territoriality, however, is not a given. It is determined not only by such objective factors as geography, demography, & history, but also by perceptions & ideas. The degree to which a certain group is attached to the territory on which it lives is, up to a point, a political, not an empirical question. The members of a minority group may see themselves as clearly rooted in the land, while the majority are unwilling to accept this claim. Here, these general points are illustrated by an examination of Russian minority groups in the former Soviet republics. It is argued that, from very different starting points, the Russian state & the political leaders in the non-Russian Soviet successor states, somewhat ironically, have arrived at basically the same conclusion: they tend to see the Russian diaspora communities in the so-called "near abroad" as territorially linked to Russia rather than to the countries in which these communities are actually based. Adapted from the source document.

During the first decade of the 21st century, a remarkable phenomenon swept through the former Soviet Union changing the political, social and cultural landscape. This book examines the significance of these regime-change processes for the post-Soviet world in particular and for global politics in the 21st century.