Language, Ethnicity, and Separatism: Survey Results from Two Post-Soviet Regions

Voegelin, Ethnicity, and Basque Separatism

1. Ethnicity is "in" these days. This is likely a result of today's postmodernism and globalization, which naturally arouses a stress upon the particular and local in reaction to modernity's and globalizations's stress upon the general and ecumenic. That means it is in danger of becoming a "topos," one of those standard themes people just keep repeating in a doxic way, without really attending ...

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Soviet health care from two perspectives.

From Separatism to Coalition: Variants in Language Politics and Leadership Pattern in Dravidian Movement

This paper describes the evolution of language politics and the part played by political leaders with reference to the Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu. It explores the interesting evolution from separatism to coalition in sustaining the values of parliamentary democracy and federalism. It seems that the appropriation of language politics is fully ascribed to the DMK leadership under Annadurai a...

Long-term mental health effects of the Chernobyl disaster: an epidemiologic survey in two former Soviet regions.

OBJECTIVE This study assessed the long-term mental health effects of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. METHOD Two population samples (N = 3,044), one from the Gomel region, close to the accident site, and one from Tver, 500 miles away, were studied 6 1/2 years after the event with the use of a variety of self-report questionnaires and a standardized psychiatric interview. RESULTS The preva...