Description: Contributors Introduction, Ronald Gregor Suny and Terry Martin Part I: Empire and Nations 1. The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, "National" Identity, and Theories of Empire, Ronald Grigor Suny 2. An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism, Terry Martin Part II: The Revolutionary Conjuncture 3. Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905-1925, Joshua Sanborn 4. To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia, Peter Holquist 5. Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920, Adeeb Khalid Part III: Forging "Nations" 6. Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919-1920, Daniel E. Schafer 7. Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity, Douglas Northrop Part IV: Stalinism and the Empire of Nations 8. The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, Matt Payne 9. Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-1953, Peter A. Blitstein 10. "...It is Imperitive to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority": Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945, Davd Brandenberger Index

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