A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195144228 ISBN 13: 9780195144222

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on a wide geographic range, from Russia to Central Asia, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Soviet history and politics.

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald Grigor Suny, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago. Terry Martin, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University.

Review:

"A State of Nations gives a very useful overview of the actual situation of American studies on 'empire and nation-making' from the late tsarist empire to the end of the Stalin era."--Journal of Modern History

"The volume of A State of Nations gives a very useful overview of the actual situation of American studies on 'empire and nation-maiking' from the late tsarist empire to the end of the Stalin era. These innovative articles revise the image of Soviet nationality policies as a linear process, planned by the center, and show convincingly its contradictions and improvisations, the simultaneity and interdependence of nation creating and nation destroying."--The Journal of Modern History

"This outstanding collection contains some of the most exciting research now available on nationalism and nation-making in the Soviet Union. With its cutting-edge scholarship, original insights, and theoretical sophistication, A STATE OF NATIONS is sure to make an important contribution to the study of the Soviet multinational state."--Adrienne Edgar, University of California, Santa Barbara

"The book is not only an interesting and generally high-quality collection of essays, it also serves to introduce new work by a group of young scholars..."--The Russian Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0195144228
• ISBN 13: 9780195144222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Suny Ronald Grigor, Martin Terry