A State Of Nations / Edition 1

by Ronald Grigor Suny, Terry Martin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195144239
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	01/05/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1690L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Chicago

Harvard University

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction, Ronald Gregor Suny and Terry Martin
Part I: Empire and Nations
1. The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, "National" Identity, and Theories of Empire, Ronald Grigor Suny
2. An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism, Terry Martin
Part II: The Revolutionary Conjuncture
3. Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905-1925, Joshua Sanborn
4. To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia, Peter Holquist
5. Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920, Adeeb Khalid
Part III: Forging "Nations"
6. Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919-1920, Daniel E. Schafer
7. Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity, Douglas Northrop
Part IV: Stalinism and the Empire of Nations
8. The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, Matt Payne
9. Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-1953, Peter A. Blitstein
10. "...It is Imperitive to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority": Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945, Davd Brandenberger
Index

Editorial Reviews

"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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