A State of Nations Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin,9780195144239

A State of Nations Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin

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ISBN13: 9780195144239
ISBN10: 0195144236
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-11-29
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

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 toCentral Asia, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Soviet history and politics.

Table of Contents

Contributors xi
Introduction 3(20)
Ronald Grigor Suny
Terry Martin
PART I: EMPIRE AND NATIONS
The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, ``National'' Identity, and Theories of Empire
23(44)
Ronald Grigor Suny
An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism
67(26)
Terry Martin
PART II: THE REVOLUTIONARY CONJUNCTURE
Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905--1925
93(18)
Joshua Sanborn
To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia
111(34)
Peter Holquist
Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917--1920
145(20)
Adeeb Khalid
PART III: FORGING ``NATIONS''
Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919--1920
165(26)
Daniel E. Schafer
Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity
191(32)
Douglas Northrop
PART IV: STALINISM AND THE EMPIRE OF NATIONS
The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan
223(30)
Matt Payne
Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938--1953
253(22)
Peter A. Blitstein
``...It Is Imperative to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority'': Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941--1945
275(26)
David Brandenberger
Index 301

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