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.
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
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