This is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. The book explores how between 1917 and 1923, the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the people of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area, first to sieze power and then to expand into the borderlands....(展开全部)

This is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. The book explores how between 1917 and 1923, the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the people of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area, first to sieze power and then to expand into the borderlands....(展开全部)

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 1920s, the Bolshevik government, seeking to defuse nationalist sentiment, created tens ...(展开全部)

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 1920s, the Bolshevik government, seeking to defuse nationalist sentiment, created tens ...(展开全部)

Valery Tishkov is a well-known Russian historian and anthropologist, and former Minister of Nationalities in Yeltsin's government. This book draws on his inside knowledge of major events and extensive primary research.Tishkov argues that ethnicity has a multifaceted role: it is the most accessible basis for political mobilization; a means of controlling power and resources in a...(展开全部)

“The amount of sources the author has studied is staggering . . . the book [has] an encyclopedic value and [is] accessible to all scholars interested in political history.”—Martin Kragh, Stockholm School of Economics “Since the Russian experience is still used to vilify the idea of socialism, the debate remains relevant. Van der Linden . . . has now produced a comprehensive sc...(展开全部)

“The amount of sources the author has studied is staggering . . . the book [has] an encyclopedic value and [is] accessible to all scholars interested in political history.”—Martin Kragh, Stockholm School of Economics “Since the Russian experience is still used to vilify the idea of socialism, the debate remains relevant. Van der Linden . . . has now produced a comprehensive sc...(展开全部)