books.google.ca - In 1991, the centrifugal forces of ethnic nationalism destroyed the Soviet Union. Religious and ethnic issues will be the defining principles of political life in East Europe, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia for the next decade. Yet when most Americans and Europeans read, for instance, of the Ossetians...http://books.google.ca/books/about/An_Ethnohistorical_dictionary_of_the_Rus.html?id=CquTz6ps5YgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAn Ethnohistorical dictionary of the Russian and Soviet empires