The background of the Soviet Union’s involvement in the establishment of the European minority rights regime in the late 1980s
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Volume: 19 pages, pdf Description: Four significant turns are closely associated with ethnic politics in Europe in late 1980s. These are the start of ethnic conflicts in the European East and South-East; the departure of the socialist multi-ethnic federations in the direction of their dissolution that followed later; revision in the approaches practiced by communist or by that time already transitional governments in the East toward diversity management; and the emergence of the European minority regime, which manifested itself primarily in the activities of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). These four areas of public politics are interrelated in a complex way; one may state that so far a simplistic analysis of this mosaic and causal links between its components still prevails in academic literature.