Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan The Transformative Power of Informal Networks Michele E. Commercio "The fate of Russian minorities in former Soviet republics has attracted considerable attention since the demise of the Soviet Union. In this book Michele Commercio offers an original contribution to the literature by focusing on the little-researched sphere of informal policies to argue that the degree to which official policies exclude ethnic minorities is in fact inversely related to their propensity to mobilize and seek redress."--Dominique Arel, University of...