ISBN:
0801442737
,
0801489083
,
9780801442735
,
9780801489082
Language:
English
Pages:
XVIII, 367 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Culture and society after socialism
DDC:
323.147/09/04 22
Keywords:
Minderheit
;
Politik
;
Ethnology
;
Minorities Government policy
;
Minderheitenpolitik
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Ethnologie
;
Sowjetunion - Nationale Minderheit - Nationalbewusstsein
;
Sowjetunion
;
Soviet Union Ethnic relations
;
Soviet Union Politics and government
;
Sowjetunion
;
Sowjetunion
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Sowjetunion
;
Minderheitenpolitik
;
Ethnologie
Abstract:
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 had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks integrated the national idea into the administrative-territorial structure of the new Soviet state. In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union.
Description / Table of Contents:
Empire, nation, and the scientific state -- Toward a revolutionary alliance -- The national idea versus economic expediency -- Cultural technologies of rule and the nature of Soviet power -- The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of lands and peoples -- Border-making and the formation of Soviet national identities -- Transforming "the peoples of the ussr": ethnographic exhibits and the evolutionary -- Timeline -- The Nazi threat and the acceleration of the Bolshevik revolution -- State-sponsored evolutionism versus german biological determinism -- Ethnographic knowledge and terror.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-3-134
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13036
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21236
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005002722.html
URL:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-3-134
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13036
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21236
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005002722.html
URL:
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2007-3-134
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=13036
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=21236
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip057/2005002722.html
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