A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin / 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
Publication date:	11/29/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 6.11(h) x 0.83(d)
Lexile:	1690L (what's this?)

About the Author

University of Chicago

Harvard University

Table of Contents

ContributorsIntroduction, Ronald Gregor Suny and Terry MartinPart I: Empire and Nations1. The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, "National" Identity, and Theories of Empire, Ronald Grigor Suny2. An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism, Terry MartinPart II: The Revolutionary Conjuncture3. Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905-1925, Joshua Sanborn4. To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia, Peter Holquist5. Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920, Adeeb KhalidPart III: Forging "Nations"6. Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919-1920, Daniel E. Schafer7. Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity, Douglas NorthropPart IV: Stalinism and the Empire of Nations8. The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, Matt Payne9. Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-1953, Peter A. Blitstein10. "...It is Imperitive to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority": Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945, Davd BrandenbergerIndex

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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