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The Affirmative Action Empire : Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 /

The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 19...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, Terry (Terry Dean) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Soviet affirmative action empire
  • Borders and ethnic conflict
  • Linguistic ukrainization, 1923-1932. The background to ukrainization, 1919-1923
  • Affirmative action in the Soviet East, 1923-1932
  • Latinization campaign and the symbolic politics of national identity
  • The politics of national communism, 1923-1930
  • The national interpretation of the 1933 famine
  • Ethnic cleansing and enemy nations
  • The revized Soviet nationalities policy, 1933-1939
  • The reemergence of the Russians
  • The friendship of peoples.