The affirmative action empire : nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 / Terry Martin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Terry.

Series:

The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Soviet Union.

Minorities.

Nationalism and socialism--Soviet Union.

Nationalism and socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 pages) illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Terry Martin looks at the nationalities policy of the early Soviet period and offers an insightful, detailed analysis of a problem that Soviet leaders grappled with throughout the twentieth century. As he points out, it was a problem that eventually helped to usher in the end of the USSR." -- Amanda Wood Aucoin, New Zealand Slavonic Journal The Soviet Union was the first of Europe''s multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s, the Bolshevik government, seeking to defuse nationalist sentiment, created tens of thousands of national territories. It trained new national leaders, established national languages, and financed the production of national-language cultural products.This was a massive and fascinating historical experiment in governing a multiethnic state. Terry Martin provides a comprehensive survey and interpretation, based on newly available archival sources, of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. He traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of dozens of official national languages, and the world''s first mass "affirmative action" programs. Martin examines the contradictions inherent in the Soviet nationality policy, which sought simultaneously to foster the growth of national consciousness among its minority populations while dictating the exact content of their cultures; to sponsor national liberation movements in neighboring countries, while eliminating all foreign influence on the Soviet Union''s many diaspora nationalities. Martin explores the political logic of Stalin''s policies as he responded to a perceived threat to Soviet unity in the 1930s by re-establishing the Russians as the state''s leading nationality and deporting numerous "enemy nations." Terry Martin provides a comprehensive survey and interpretation, based on newly available archival sources, of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. He traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of dozens of official national languages, and the world''s first mass "affirmative action" programs. Martin examines the contradictions inherent in the Soviet nationality policy, which sought simultaneously to foster the growth of national consciousness among its minority populations while dictating the exact content of their cultures; to sponsor national liberation movements in neighboring countries, while eliminating all foreign influence on the Soviet Union''s many diaspora nationalities. Martin explores the political logic of Stalin''s policies as he responded to a perceived threat to Soviet unity in the 1930s by re-establishing the Russians as the state''s leading nationality and deporting numerous "enemy nations."s "enemy nations."Terry Martin provides a comprehensive survey and interpretation, based on newly available archival sources, of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. He traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of dozens of official national languages, and the world''s first mass "affirmative action" programs. Martin examines the contradictions inherent in the Soviet nationality policy, which sought simultaneously to foster the growth of national consciousness among its minority populations while dictating the exact content of their cultures; to sponsor national liberation movements in neighboring countries, while eliminating all foreign influence on the Soviet Union''s many diaspora nationalities. Martin explores the political logic of Stalin''s policies as he responded to a perceived threat to Soviet unity in the 1930s by re-establishing the Russians as the state''s leading nationality and deporting numerous "enemy nations."Terry Martin provides a comprehensive survey and interpretation, based on newly available archival sources, of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. He traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of dozens of official national languages, and the world''s first mass "affirmative action" programs. Martin examines the contradictions inherent in the Soviet nationality policy, which sought simultaneously to foster the growth of national consciousness among its minority populations while dictating the exact content of their cultures; to sponsor national liberation movements in neighboring countries, while eliminating all foreign influence on the Soviet Union''s many diaspora nationalities. Martin explores the political logic of Stalin''s policies as he responded to a perceived threat to Soviet unity in the 1930s by re-establishing the Russians as the state''s leading nationality and deporting numerous "enemy nations."s "enemy nations."s "enemy nations."Terry Martin provides a comprehensive survey and interpretation, based on newly available archival sources, of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. He traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of dozens of official national languages, and the world''s first mass "affirmative action" programs. Martin examines the contradictions inherent in the Soviet nationality policy, which sought simultaneously to foster the growth of national consciousness among its minority populations while dictating the exact content of their cultures; to sponsor national liberation movements in neighboring countries, while eliminating all foreign influence on the Soviet Union''s many diaspora nationalities. Martin explores the political logic of Stalin''s policies as he responded to a perceived threat to Soviet unity in the 1930s by re-establishing the Russians as the state''s leading nationality and deporting numerous "enemy nations."s "enemy nations."and deporting numerous "enemy nations."s "enemy nations."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables and Maps

Acknowledgments

Footnote Abbreviations

A Note on Style

1. The Soviet Affirmative Action Empire

PARTONE. lmplementing the Affirmative Action Empire

2. Borders and Ethnic Conflict

3. Linguistic Ukrainization, 1923-1932

4. Affirmative Action in the Soviet East, 1923-1932

5. The Latinization Campaign and the Symbolie Polities of National Identity

PART TWO. The Political Crisis of the Affirmative Action Empire

6. The Polities of National Cornmunism, 1923-1930

7. The National Interpretation of the 1933 Famine

PART THREE. Revising the Affirmative Action Empire

8. Ethnie Cieansing and Enemy Nations

9. The Revised Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1933-1939

10. The Reemergenee of the Russians

11. The Friendship of the Peoples

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9781501713316

1501713310

9781501713323

1501713329

OCLC:

1016795826