"The Union is not missed, its legacy endures: 'South Caucasian' reflections on thirty years after the demise of the USSR"
2021
Abstract
Research on the Soviet heritage of the so-called post-Soviet space has recently expanded to include new perspectives on the Soviet "afterlife", detailed studies of memory or nationalism. In this light, contemporary traces of Soviet internationalism are mostly interpreted as a polyphonic interaction of solidarity with incomprehension between Moscow and the former centers of the union republics foreign policy, economy, cinema, and everyday life, while the experience of thirty years after the Union broke up into fifteen independent republics, has been marked by ethnic tensions and cleavages especially in the three South Caucasus republics.