What Are Modern Nations Like?

... prosperity and rapprochement between socialist nations, internationalism, and friendship of peoples. In the 1970s this idea was complemented by the concept of a ‘united Soviet people’ – a community of peoples whose identity relied on common history, culture, and ideological indoctrination. In the late 1970s and 1980s, Western countries witnessed the establishment of different kinds of multiculturalism. Those countries recognized the heterogeneity of civic nations and supported cultural distinctions,...