The Formation of the Soviet Union,9780674309517

The Formation of the Soviet Union

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780674309517
ISBN10: 0674309510
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-04-25
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary

Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area--first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands. The Formation of the Soviet Union acquires special relevance in the post-Soviet era, when the ethnic groups described in the book once again reclaimed their independence, this time apparently for good. In a 1996 Preface to the Revised Edition, Pipes suggests how material recently released from the Russian archives might supplement his account.

Table of Contents

I THE NATIONAL PROBLEM IN RUSSIA
1(49)
The Russian Empire on the Eve of the 1917 Revolution
1(6)
National Movements in Russia The Ukrainians and Belorussians. The Turkic Peoples. The Peoples of the Caucasus.
7(14)
Socialism and the National Problem in Western and Central Europe
21(8)
Russian Political Parties and the National Problem
29(5)
Lenin and the National Question before 1913
34(7)
Lenin's Theory of Self-Determination
41(9)
II 1917 AND THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
50(64)
The General Causes
50(3)
The Ukraine and Belorussia The Rise of the Ukrainian Central Rada (February-June 1917), From July to the October Revolution in the Ukraine. Belorussia in 1917.
53(22)
The Moslem Borderlands The All-Russian Moslem Movement. The Crimea in 1917. Bashkiriia and the Kazakh-Kirghiz Steppe. Turkestan and the Autonomous Government of Kokand.
75(18)
The Caucasus The Terek Region and Daghestan. Transcaucasia.
93(14)
The Bolsheviks in Power
107(7)
III SOVIET CONQUEST OF THE UKRAINE AND BELORUSSIA
114(41)
The Fall of the Ukrainian Central Rada
114(12)
The Communist Party of the Ukraine: Its Formation and Early Activity (1918)
126(11)
The Struggle of the Communists for Power in the Ukraine in 1919
137(13)
Belorussia from 1918 to 1920
150(5)
IV SOVIET CONQUEST OF THE MOSLEM BORDERLANDS
155(38)
The Moslem Communist Movement in Soviet Russia (1918)
155(6)
The Bashkir and Tatar Republics
161(11)
The Kirghiz Republic
172(2)
Turkestan
174(10)
The Crimea
184(9)
V SOVIET CONQUEST OF THE CAUCASUS
193(49)
The Transcaucasian Federation
193(2)
Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus and Eastern Transcaucasia (1918) The Terek Region. Baku.
195(9)
The Independent Republics (1918-19) Azerbaijan. Armenia. Georgia.
204(10)
The Prelude to the Conquest
214(7)
The Conquest The Fall of Azerbaijan. The Fall of Armenia. The Fall of Georgia.
221(21)
VI THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
242(52)
The Consolidation of the Party and State Apparatus The RSFSR. Relations between the RSFSR and the other Soviet Republics. The People's Republics.
242(13)
The Opposition to Centralization Nationalist Opposition: Enver Pasha and the Basmachis. Nationalist-Communist Opposition: Sultan-Galiev. Communist Opposition: the Ukraine. Communist Opposition: Georgia.
255(14)
Formulation of Constitutional Principles of the Union
269(7)
Lenin's Change of Mind
276(13)
The Last Discussion of the Nationality Question
289(5)
CONCLUSION
294(4)
Chronology of Principal Events 298(2)
Ethnic Distribution of Population, 1897 and 1926 300(2)
The System of Transliteration 302(2)
Bibliography 304(25)
Notes 329(24)
Index 353

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