Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURS, ORDINARY PEOPLE, AND GROUP GRIEVANCE -- The Puzzle of Nationalism in Russia's Republics -- Competing Explanations of Nationalism in Russia -- Why Ordinary People Respond to Nationalist Leaders -- How Nationalist Grievances Developed in Russia -- 2 VARIATION IN MASS NATIONALISM ACROSS RUSSIA'S REPUBLICS -- Levels of Mass Nationalism -- Explanations for Republican Secessionism -- 3 DOES STRUCTURE MATTER? Local Labor Markets and Social Mobility -- Socioconomic Stratification and Ethnic Mobilization -- Social Transformation in Russia's Republics -- Macroeconomic Change and Employment -- Testing Structuralist Economic Theories -- 4 SUPPORTING NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY IN TATARSTAN -- Ethnicity and Professional Competition in Tatarstan -- Tatar Scholars and Ethnic Representation in the Local Economy -- Popular Support for Tatar Nationalism -- 5 NATIONALISM IN A SOCIALIST COMPANY TOWN Tatars, Russians, and the Kamskii Automobile Works in Naberezhnye Chelny -- Ethnicity and the KamAZ Labor Force -- The Nationalist Movement -- Popular Support for Nationalism -- Popular Perceptions of Ethnic Economic Inequality -- 6 ETHNIC ENTREPRENEURS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GROUP GRIEVANCE Tuva, Mari El, and Komi Compared -- Nationalist Discourse in Founding Documents -- Nationalist Discourse in Chechnya -- Nationalist Politics and Discourse Analysis in Tuva, Mari El, and Komi -- 7 SECESSIONISM FROM THE BOTTOM UP Democratization, Nationalism, and Local Accountability in Russia -- Campaigns for Sovereignty in Russia's Republics, 1990-94 -- Democratization, Shifting Accountability, and Nationalism -- Mass Nationalism and Republican Sovereignty Campaigns -- Case Studies -- 8 LESSONS FROM RUSSIA A Critical View of the Relationship between Ethnic Elite Claims and Mass Interests -- Policy Implications.

External Observers and Ethnic Entrepreneurs in China and Iraq -- Bibliography -- Index.