Description: ContributorsRonald Gregor Suny and Terry Martin: IntroductionPart I: Empire and Nations1. Ronald Grigor Suny: The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, "National" Identity, and Theories of Empire2. Terry Martin: An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of ImperialismPart II: The Revolutionary Conjuncture3. Joshua Sanborn: Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905-19254. Peter Holquist: To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia5. Adeeb Khalid: Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920Part III: Forging "Nations"6. Daniel E. Schafer: Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919-19207. Douglas Northrop: Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek IdentityPart IV: Stalinism and the Empire of Nations8. Matt Payne: The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan9. Peter A. Blitstein: Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-195310. Davd Brandenberger: "...It is Imperitive to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority": Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945Index

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