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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.
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.
Contributors
Ronald Gregor Suny and Terry Martin: Introduction
Part I: Empire and Nations
1: Ronald Grigor Suny: The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia,
"National" Identity, and Theories of Empire
2: Terry Martin: An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as
the Highest Form of Imperialism
Part II: The Revolutionary Conjuncture
3: Joshua Sanborn: Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in
Russia, 1905-1925
4: Peter Holquist: To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate:
Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and
Soviet Russia
5: Adeeb Khalid: Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The
Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920
Part III: Forging "Nations"
6: Daniel E. Schafer: Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic
of Bashkortostan, 1919-1920
7: Douglas Northrop: Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire,
and Uzbek Identity
Part IV: Stalinism and the Empire of Nations
8: Matt Payne: The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib,
Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year
Plan
9: Peter A. Blitstein: Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory
Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-1953
10: Davd Brandenberger: "...It is Imperitive to Advance Russian
Nationalism as the First Priority": Debates within the Stalinist
Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945
Index
"A State of Nations gives a very useful overview of the actual
situation of American studies on 'empire and nation-making' from
the late tsarist empire to the end of the Stalin era."--Journal of
Modern History
"The volume of A State of Nations gives a very useful overview of
the actual situation of American studies on 'empire and
nation-maiking' from the late tsarist empire to the end of the
Stalin era. These innovative articles revise the image of Soviet
nationality policies as a linear process, planned by the center,
and show convincingly its contradictions and improvisations, the
simultaneity and interdependence of nation creating and nation
destroying."--The Journal of Modern History
"This outstanding collection contains some of the most exciting
research now available on nationalism and nation-making in the
Soviet Union. With its cutting-edge scholarship, original insights,
and theoretical sophistication, A STATE OF NATIONS is sure to make
an important contribution to the study of the Soviet multinational
state."--Adrienne Edgar, University of California, Santa
Barbara
"The book is not only an interesting and generally high-quality
collection of essays, it also serves to introduce new work by a
group of young scholars..."--The Russian Review
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