Red nations : the nationalities experience in and after the USSR / Jeremy Smith, Professor of Russian History and Politics at the Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland

Author:: Smith, Jeremy, 1964-
Published:: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:: xix, 391 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents:

Introduction : the prison-house of nations -- Dispersal and reunion : revolution and civil war in the borderlands -- Bolshevik nationality policies and the formation of the USSR -- Nation-building the Soviet way -- Surviving the Stalinist onslaught, 1928-1941 -- The Great Patriotic War and after -- Deportations -- Territorial expansion and the Baltic exception -- Destalinisation and the revival of the republics -- Stability and national development : the Brezhnev years, 1964-1982 -- From reform to dissolution, 1982-1991 -- Nation-making in the post-Soviet states -- The orphans of the Soviet Union : Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniester.

Subject(s):

Nationalism—Soviet Union—Republics—History
Nationalism—Former Soviet republics—History—20th century
Minorities—Government policy—Soviet Union
Federal government—Soviet Union
Former Soviet republics—History—20th century

Genre(s):

History

ISBN:

9780521128704 (pbk.)
0521128706 (pbk.)
9780521111317
0521111315

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-382) and index.

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