After the Collapse of the USSR: Difficult Paths towards Multiculturalism

The period after the collapse of the USSR was ’collapse characterized by not only political and socio-economical changes ion post-communist space, but also by changes in values, identification and disidentification
with inclusive social categories, groups’ statuses and intercultural relations. Research in a variety of different post-communist countries, as well as in different multicultural regions of the Russian Federation, demonstrated very different paths towards the development of multicultural policy and practice and provide insights in the main problems that require psychological expertise and research. The task of n‘Nation-state’ building, and changes in majority-minority status became a common trend for many post-communist countries and regions in East Europe and Central Asia. These changes and bring new challenges and tasks for the development of a multicultural vision and the creation of a path for its adoption in different socio-political discourses and socio-cultural contexts.