Revelations from the Russian Archives
Author : Diane P. Koenker
Publisher :
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780393803
Author : Diane P. Koenker
Publisher :
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780393803
Author : Terry Dean Martin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801486777
This text provides a survey of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. It traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of several official national languages and the world's first mass "affirmative action" programmes.
Author : Rudolf Schlesinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136281347
First Published in 1998. This is Volume V of eight in the Sociology of the Soviet Union series. Collated in 1956, this is a collection of selected readings and documents about the development of Soviet Nationalites Policies.
Author : Raymond E. Zickel
Publisher :
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Russia
ISBN :
Author : Galina Vasilevna Starovotova
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Conflict management
ISBN :
Author : Robert Bird
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Ausstellung
ISBN : 9780943056401
Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image culture alongside the formation of new social and cultural identities.
Author : Francine Hirsch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0801455944
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 had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks integrated the national idea into the administrative-territorial structure of the new Soviet state. In Empire of Nations, Francine 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 new Soviet Union. The ethnographers—who drew inspiration from the Western European colonial context—produced all-union censuses, assisted government commissions charged with delimiting the USSR's internal borders, led expeditions to study "the human being as a productive force," and created ethnographic exhibits about the "Peoples of the USSR." In the 1930s, they would lead the Soviet campaign against Nazi race theories . Hirsch illuminates the pervasive tension between the colonial-economic and ethnographic definitions of Soviet territory; this tension informed Soviet social, economic, and administrative structures. A major contribution to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Empire of Nations also offers new insights into the connection between ethnography and empire.
Author : Mary Allerton Kilbourne Matossian
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Armenia
ISBN :
Author : Anatoly Michailovich Khazanov
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299148942
Khazanov's astute assessments of ethnic and political strife in Russia, in Chechnia, in Central Asia, in Kazakhstan, among the Meskhetian Turks, and among the Yakut of Eastern Siberia illuminate the interconnections between nationalism, ethnic relations, social structures, and political process in the waning days of the USSR and in the new independent states. Exploring the Soviet nationality policy and its failure to satisfy national aspirations, Khazanov demonstrates the fatal flaws of totalitarian rule and the impossibility of reforming it. Khazanov cautions that the liberal democratic direction of current transformations in the former Soviet Union should not be taken for granted. For most of the independent states, he points out, departing from totalitarianism requires creation of a civil society for the first time in their history. The state's partial retreat from the public sphere leaves a dangerous institutional vacuum, in which nationalism is emerging as the dominant ideology. He warns that this new, post-totalitarian society is still a far cry from a genuine liberal democracy and, despite its inherent instability, may turn out to be a long-lasting phenomenon.
Author : Veljko Vujačić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107074088
This book examines the role of Russian and Serbian nationalism in dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1991.