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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458363803321

Titolo

A state of nations [[electronic resource] ] : empire and nation-making in the age of Lenin and Stalin / / edited by Ronald Grigor Suny, Terry Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-280-83534-6

0-19-534935-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SunyRonald Grigor

MartinTerry (Terry Dean)

Disciplina

947

947.084

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Soviet Union

Nationalism - Soviet Union

Electronic books.

Soviet Union Politics and government

Soviet Union Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: EMPIRE AND NATIONS; The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, ""National"" Identity, and Theories of Empire; An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism; PART II: THE REVOLUTIONARY CONJUNCTURE; Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905-1925; To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia; Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920; PART III: FORGING ""NATIONS""

Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919-1920Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity; 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; Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-



1953; "". . . It Is Imperative to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority"": Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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