Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 From the Impossible to the Inevitable -- Structural Facilitation, Institutional Constraint, and Contentious Event -- Order, Event, and Tides of Nationalism -- Plan of the Book and Summary of the Arguments -- Research Strategies and Evidence -- 2 The Tide of Nationalism and the Mobilizational Cycle -- Historical Background -- From Institutions to the Streets -- Defining a Tide Within a Cycle -- The Diffusion and Normalization of Contention -- The Mobilizational Effect on Institutions -- Summary and Conclusion -- 3 Structuring Nationalism -- Nationalism in Time -- Nationalism in Space -- Nationalism in Space-Time (I): The Temporal Spread of Nationalist Contention -- Nationalism in Space-Time (II): The Systematic Effects of Event-Specific Processes -- Summary and Conclusion -- 4 "Thickened" History and the Mobilization of Identity -- The Mobilization of Identity as Political Process -- Secessionist Mobilization within the Glasnost' Tide of Nationalism -- Baltic Nationalisms and the Politics of Emboldening and Persuasion -- Emulation, Emboldening, Repulsion: The Rise of Georgian Separatism -- The Gradual Emergence of a Secessionist Consciousness Among Armenians -- Riding a Mobilizational Tide: The Ukrainian National Revolution -- Summary and Conclusion -- 5 Tides and the Failure of Nationalist Mobilization -- Conceptualizing Outcomes Within a Tide of Nationalism -- The Structural Underpinnings of Failures of Action -- Exploring Anomalous Cases -- Tide and Structure in Time and Space -- Tides, Structure, and Failures of Mobilizational Effect -- Tides and the Strategic Appropriation of Nationalism -- Summary and Conclusion -- 6 Violence and Tides of Nationalism.

The Limits of Structural Explanations of Mobilized Nationalist Violence -- Tides, the Institutionalization of Mobilization, and Nationalist Violence -- The State and the Origin of Waves of Nationalist Violence -- From Mobilized to Organized and Sustained Violence -- Summary and Conclusion -- 7 The Transcendence of Regimes of Repression -- The Brezhnevian Regime of Repression -- Glasnost' and the Legal Regulation of Revolt -- First Attempts to Reestablish Order -- The "Tbilisi Syndrome" -- The Shifting Mobilization/Repression Relationship -- Why Severe Force Was Not Seriously Contemplated -- Why Force Could Not Have Saved the USSR -- Summary and Conclusion -- 8 Russian Mobilization and the Accumulating "Inevitability" of Soviet Collapse -- Russians and the Tide of Nationalism -- From the Streets to Dvoevlastie -- The Accumulating "Inevitability" of Disintegration -- The Denouement -- The Termination of the Soviet State -- Summary and Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion: Nationhood and Event -- Appendix I Procedures for Applying Event Analysis to the Study of Soviet Protest in the Glasnost' Era -- Appendix II Sources for the Compilation of Event Data in a Revolutionary Context -- Western News Sources and Publications -- Official Soviet or Post-Soviet News Sources and Publications -- Émigré News Sources and Publications -- Unofficial Soviet, or Post-Soviet, News Sources and Publications -- Index.