TY - T1 - Inherited National Questions : The Soviet Legacy in Russia’s International Law Doctrine on Self-determination SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/327935 T3 - A1 - Lundstedt, Tero A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - All 15 former Soviet Republics share a unique federal history with a particular understanding of the right to self-determination. Moreover, seven of them were federalised during the Soviet era, amounting to a major challenge to their territorial integrity after independence. While these states confronted their minorities in different ways, the Russian solution to its inherited national question has been the most comprehensive. This has made Russian understanding on self-determination essentially... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 513 Law; self-determination; secession; federalism; Kosovo; Crimea N1 - PP - ER -