Empire of Nations : Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union /

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When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks ha...

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Autor principal: Hirsch, Francine (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: De Gruyter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Staatsvorming.
Etnografie.
Etnische minderheden.
Nationale Minderheit
Nationalbewusstsein
Politics and government
Minorities > Government policy.
Ethnology.
Ethnic relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Minorites > Politique gouvernementale > URSS.
Ethnologie > URSS.
Minorities > Government policy > Soviet Union.
Ethnology > Soviet Union.
Russia > History > 1917-1991, Soviet Union > Politics and government.
Russia > History > 1917-1991, Soviet Union > Ethnic relations.
Sowjetunion
Soviet Union.
URSS > Relations interethniques.
URSS > Politique et gouvernement.
Soviet Union > Politics and government.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES AND MAPS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES
  • TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Empire, Nation, and the Scientific State
  • CHAPTER 1. Toward a Revolutionary Alliance
  • CHAPTER 2. The National Idea versus Economic Expediency
  • CHAPTER 3. The 1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples
  • CHAPTER 4. Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities
  • CHAPTER 5. Transforming "The Peoples of the USSR": Ethnographic Exhibits and the Evolutionary Timeline
  • PART 3 The Nazi Threat and the Acceleration of the Bolshevik Revolution
  • CHAPTER 6. State-Sponsored Evolutionism and the Struggle Against German Biological Determinism
  • CHAPTER 7. Ethnographic Knowledge and Terror
  • Epilogue
  • APPENDIX
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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