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8 pages in length. The very nature of political transition is to have the opportunity to realign misguided or wholly absent components that make an otherwise solid party system falter. When evaluating the impact such transition has had upon Russia, Belarus and Ukraine where their respective party systems are concerned, one must take into account such factors as nationalism, economics and tradition in order to understand why these countries struggled with consolidation. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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impact such transition has had upon Russia, Belarus and Ukraine where their respective party systems are concerned, one must take into account such factors as nationalism, economics and tradition in
order to understand why these countries struggled with consolidation. Nationalism may have replaced Communism in European countries such as Russia, Belarus and Ukraine,
and as Harris (1993) notes was originally intended to draw people together, but it may also readily be argued how it has often created more problems than it has solved
for consolidation of party systems, proving to pull people apart who would otherwise have no reason to battle. Further commenting upon how "ethnic complexity" (Harris, 1993, p. 303) was
responsible in part for the instability of entire republics, it is clear how what was meant to bring people together has all-too-often served to divide what should be united a
society. Moreover, Harris (1993) points out how "the presence of ethnic minorities poses additional problems in newly independent states, as it did for the predecessor republics" (p. 308). Political
change must have cultural conformity in order to exist; in turn, the desire for such conformity is what ultimately encourages nationalism. However, all too often what also comes with
the concept of nationalism and cultural conformity is the requirement of just one culture; this is where conflict begins, when people are not permitted to follow their own cultural beliefs
in the name of nationalism (Geller, 1997; Smith, 1996). One might readily surmise that despite its good intentions, people are continuously forced to be what they are not and
do not want to be, yet nationalism is still heralded as an improvement over how things used to be. To this end, Harris (1993) acknowledges how "each major ethnic
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