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Russians in the Baltic States: Multiple Identities and Diverse Futures. Victor Makarov PhD Candidate, University of Helsinki. Overview. Why Study Russian identities? Russians as a population group Individual identity adaptation strategies - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Russians in the Baltic States: Multiple Identities and Diverse
Futures
Victor MakarovPhD Candidate, University of Helsinki
Overview
• Why Study Russian identities?• Russians as a population group• Individual identity adaptation strategies• Russian Collective identities: political and cultural• Brubaker’s Trangle: The fourth angle?• Multilayer identities: Russians as model Europeans
EASTERN SLAVIC POPULATION IN THE BALTIC STATES
Pre-Soviet Soviet Post-Soviet N, 1000
Latvia 10%
*1935
42%
*1989
35%
*2006
797
Lithuania 3 %
* 1923
12 %
* 1989
8%
* 2001
285
Estonia 8,2 %
* 1922
35%
* 1989
29%
* 2000
397
Total > 1.5 mln
Attitudes towards Communism LT
Attitudes towards Communism LV
Attitudes towards Communism EE
Attitudes towards Authoritarian rule LT
Attitudes towards Authoritarian rule LV
Attitudes towards Authoritarian rule EE
European Identities
Estonia Latvia Lithuania
Est Rus Lat Rus Lit Rus
Q. With which one of the following do you most closely identify yourself? And which do you identify with secondly?
Nation-state first 47 2 57 2 55 3
Integrated national 27 1 21 2 28 5
Russian or Soviet 2 73 2 60 2 55
Local, regional only 11 8 11 22 6 23
European 11 15 8 11 10 8
Other 0 - 0 1 0 4
Don’t Know 1 0 1 1 - 2
New Baltic Barometer V, Autumn, 2001, N=3,133.
Source: R. Rose, S. Berglund, 2004