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Reshaped Regional Multiculturalism in the Post-communist Europe

In Western Europe, Canada and Australia multiculturalism became a problem in the context of emancipation of previously marginalized national and ethnic minorities and immigrant groups. The problem of multiculturalism in the Postcommunist world is quiet different. In the case of communism, multiculturalism was understood only within Yugoslavian, respectively Soviet, national borders, and the structure of these artificial multinational states was given as the only possible framework for multiculturalism. Other rich intercultural relations which during the past centuries had built deep foundations for different forms of multiculturalism were severed by the Iron Curtain and ignored in official ideological discourse. On the other hand, the presentday concept of multiculturalism in the European postcommunist states, is based on stronger civilizational, social, ethnic and historical links with other nations of Central Europe and its concept of multicultural regionalism. The breakdown of communism and the political independence of these countries make possible a radical reconceptualization of multiculturalism. Ethnopolitical relations in the postcommunist world of Central and Eastern Europe are complex and far from uniform. The newly independent states strive for equality with the leading nations of the world; nationalities and ethnic groups strive for their national and ethnic self determination and self-expression.

multiculturalism; Communism; Post-communism; Europe; self-determination

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