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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Culture and Society after Socialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 7 charts/graphs/maps, 20 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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