%0 Journal Article 
%T THE CLASH OF MYTHS A Review of The Value of the Past: Myths, Identity and Politics in Transcaucasia by Victor A. Shnirelman
%D 2003
%@ 1341-0903
%U http://repository.icesi.edu.co/biblioteca_digital/handle/10906/82687
%X In ethnic conflicts of the former Soviet Transcaucasia, each conflicting group is trying its best to
demonstrate the legitimacy of their claims mainly by the criteria of homeland and language. Such choice
of criteria is based on Soviet practice, when ethnic groups could enjoy degrees of privilege of territorial
political autonomy only when they were considered to be indigenous ethnic groups of the territories in
question. Thus, most of the ethnic groups had to show that they were an autochthonous population in a
particular territory which had continued to live there using their own language from the very beginning
of their existence as a unique ethnic group.
%K Ciencia política
%K Political science
%K Conflictos étnicos
%K Unión Sovietica
%K Identidad étnica
%K Mitos
%~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN