The collapse of the Soviet bloc triggered renewed questioning and regenerated racism

Evidence

The contributions reveal in dynamic ways how race and ethnicity are socially fashioned in particular social and political environments. The meanings of race and racism are located within particular fields of discourse and these fields, in turn, are contextualized within the social relations giving rise to them. A clear point of reference in this regard is the situation in Eastern Europe since the early 1990s, where the collapse of the Soviet bloc set in train processes of questioning and re-evaluation, especially of categories of national and ethnic identity but also concerns over regenerated expressions of racism (Miles, 1994). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 99

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth investigating how the post-Soviet national/ethnic re-evaluation produced actually measurable rises in racism and ethnonational violence in specific post-Soviet states.
• XREF: connects to: The collapse of the Soviet Union also ended the social democratic mixed-economy ideal. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 106