After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were countless minority groups found themselves living in a new country as a result of annexation, redefined territorial boundaries, migration, or by any other means, with some suffering repression from the states in which they resided. My research is about the interaction between such minority groups and states where they find themselves. My central objective is to answer why and how might a State, having just acquired an ethnic minority, repress the newly integrated ethnic minority, and how can such minority resist or respond to such repression. Through the combination of Benedict Anderson and Rogers Brubaker’s conceptualizations of nationalism, and a focus on state repressions, both violent and
