The Affirmative Action Empire

The Affirmative Action Empire

Author: Terry Dean Martin

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9780801486777

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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.


Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary

Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary

Author: Robert Bird

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780943056401

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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.


Red Nations

Red Nations

Author: Jeremy Smith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-09-12

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 0521111315

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This book surveys the experiences of non-Russian USSR citizens both during and following the collapse of the Soviet Union.


The Soviet Nationality Reader

The Soviet Nationality Reader

Author: Rachel Denber

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 0429964382

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Setting the context for the crisis that has fragmented the former USSR, this reader presents key essays by notable Western scholars who have shaped the debates within the field of Soviet nationality studies. Focusing first on the historical development of the Soviet multiethnic state, the discussions then turn to specific problem areas, including federalism, elites, economy, language policy, and nationalism. An introductory essay by the editor discusses how the works in teh book contribute to our understanding of the current disintegration and analyzes opposing perspectives in the debates. Intended for use as a textbook in undergraduate or graduate courses on Soviet nationality problems or Soviet and post-Soviet domestic politics, this anthology will be valuable for students and professors alike.


The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia

The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia

Author: Melissa Chakars

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2014-05-10

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9633860148

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The Buryats are a Mongolian population in Siberian Russia, the largest indigenous minority. The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia presents the dramatic transformation in their everyday lives during the late twentieth century. The book challenges the common notion that the process of modernization during the later Soviet period created a Buryat national assertiveness rather than assimilation or support for the state.


Empire of Nations

Empire of Nations

Author: Francine Hirsch

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0801455944

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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 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.


Politics, Society, And Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia

Politics, Society, And Nationality Inside Gorbachev's Russia

Author: Seweryn Bialer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1000235734

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The East-West Forum is a New York-based research and policy analysis organization sponsored by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. Its goal is to bring together experts and policy leaders from differing perspectives and generations to discuss changing patterns of East-West relations. It attempts to formulate long-term analyses and recommendations. In p


Ethnic Relations in the USSR

Ethnic Relations in the USSR

Author: Rasma Karklins

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-26

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1040184626

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Ethnic Relations in the USSR (1986) focuses on popular ethnic attitudes and behaviour among the various nations and nationalities of the Soviet Union. Ethnicity matters not only in Soviet high politics and in economic and cultural planning, but is also a dominant force in the daily lives of many Soviet citizens. Using a combination of political and sociological methods, the author draws out the patterns and determinants of ethnic relations among the major nationalities at both the group and individual levels. Co-winner of the 1987 American Political Science Association Ralph E. Bunche Award