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Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union /

Francis Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the Soviet Union.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hirsch, Francine, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Colección:Culture and society after socialism.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toward a revolutionary alliance
  • The national idea versus economic expediency
  • The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of lands and peoples
  • Border-making and the formation of Soviet national identities
  • Transforming "the peoples of the USSR" : ethnographic exhibits and the evolutionary timeline
  • State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism
  • Ethnographic knowledge and terror.