Ethnic struggle, coexistence, and democratization in Eastern Europe

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Notes

1. Stroschein makes a related and important point that this mass behavior served to “force elites to the bargaining table” (29–30). Here, she identifies a crucial dynamic between ethnic masses and political leaders that gets obscured when analysts view mobilization as the product of solely elite behavior.

2. Stroschein also conducted more than 160 interviews.

3. She also argues that UDMR leaders played a small role in initiating protests in Cluj and only became involved after recognizing that the statue issue was a salient one for ordinary Hungarians. However, according to Stroschein's narrative, the UDMR became involved only several days after the initial student protest by holding a formal protest that escalated ethnic contention (127–128).

4. I make this argument to explain different levels of mass nationalist mobilization among ethnic populations in Russia's republics in the early 1990s in Giuliano (2011).