A state of nations : empire and nation-making in the age of Lenin and Stalin / edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, Terry Martin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Suny, Ronald Grigor.

Martin, Terry (Terry Dean)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Soviet Union--Politics and government.

Soviet Union.

Politics and government.

Soviet Union--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Ethnicity--Soviet Union.

Nationalism--Soviet Union.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

xii, 307 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on a wide geographic range, from Russia to Central Asia, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Soviet history and politics.

Contents:

Empire strikes out : imperial Russia, "national" identity, and theories of empire / Ronald Grigor Suny

Affirmative action empire : the Soviet Union as the highest form of imperialism / Terry Martin

Family, fraternity, and nation-building in Russia, 1905-1925 / Joshua Sanborn

To count, to extract, and to exterminate : population statistics and population politics in late imperial and Soviet Russia / Peter Holquist

Nationalizing the revolution in central Asia : the transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920 / Adeeb Khalid

Local politics and the birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919-1920 / Daniel E. Schafer

Nationalizing backwardness : gender, empire, and Uzbek identity / Douglas Northrop

Forge of the Kazakh proletariat? The Turksib, nativization, and industrialization during Stalins's first five-year plan / Matt Payne

Nation-building or Russification? Obligatory Russian instruction in the Soviet non-Russian School, 1938-1953 / Peter A. Blitstein

"...It is imperative to advance Russian nationalism as the first priority" : debates within the Stalinist ideological establishment, 1941-1945 / David Brandenberger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195144228

0195144236

OCLC:

46634426