Tolerance and Extremism: Russian Ethnicity in the Orthodox Discourse of the 1990s

In the early 1990s, the ideology of "Sovietness" that had connected Soviet citizens disintegrated. The meager, monotonous array of social identities previously proposed for the Soviet people, identities which had permeated Soviet ideological discourse, faded away. Over the course of the decade, they were successfully replaced by other criteria for group division and self-identification, including those based on economic, geographic, and cultural characteristics.