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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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