Red nations : the nationalities experience in and after the USSR / Jeremy Smith, Professor of Russian History and Politics at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Jeremy, 1964-

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Federal government--Soviet Union.

Federal government.

Nationalism.

History.

Republics.

Soviet Union.

Nationalism--Soviet Union--Republics--History.

Nationalism--Former Soviet republics--History--20th century.

Minorities--Government policy--Soviet Union.

Minorities.

Minorities--Government policy.

Former Soviet republics--History--20th century.

Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 391 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : the prison-house of nations

Dispersal and reunion : revolution and civil war in the borderlands

Bolshevik nationality policies and the formation of the USSR

Nation-building the Soviet way

Surviving the Stalinist onslaught, 1928-1941

The Great Patriotic War and after

Deportations

Territorial expansion and the Baltic exception

Destalinisation and the revival of the republics

Stability and national development : the Brezhnev years, 1964-1982

From reform to dissolution, 1982-1991

Nation-making in the post-Soviet states

The orphans of the Soviet Union : Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniester.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781139047746

1139047744

Publisher Number:

99984103618

40022992289

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.