Author: Viktor Ivanovič Kozlov
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Languages : en
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Author: William Mandel
Publisher: University of Alberta Press and Ramparts Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: James I. Clark
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780817233648
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Describes the way of life, languages, and contributions to Soviet society of the people living in the Soviet Union's fifteen republics.

Author: Francine Hirsch
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455944
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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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. The ethnographers—who drew inspiration from the Western European colonial context—produced all-union censuses, assisted government commissions charged with delimiting the USSR's internal borders, led expeditions to study "the human being as a productive force," and created ethnographic exhibits about the "Peoples of the USSR." In the 1930s, they would lead the Soviet campaign against Nazi race theories . Hirsch illuminates the pervasive tension between the colonial-economic and ethnographic definitions of Soviet territory; this tension informed Soviet social, economic, and administrative structures. A major contribution to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Empire of Nations also offers new insights into the connection between ethnography and empire.

Author: Aleš Hrdlička
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 29

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Author: Corliss Lamont
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Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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"An over-all picture of the Soviet peoples in general and the concrete functioning of the unique Soviet minorities policy."--Pref."First edition." Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 215-218) "Selected bibliography": pages 219-220.

Author: Viktor Ivanovich Kozlov
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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A survey of the Soviet Union's ethnic map, this book explores the interplay between ethnic, nationalist and social factors in the USSR.

Author: Margus Kolga
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 994933098X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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The publisher of this book was a man who was born in 1938, in a free and democratic country (Estonia), with Estonian identity and citizenship. That all was amended in 1940 by Russian Empire as a result of the occupation of a sovereign country. The book was written with help of leading specialists of that time and with an attempt to stay neutral, almost as bystanders. The purpose was to describe cultures and ethnic groups of people who have suffered or have been eradicated under the power of "Russian Empire." Oppression of neighbors has taken place for over 500 years, and continues even today with Russian Federation changing daily into more totalitarian and dangerous state in an attempt to restore its former glory. Also Russian Federation is the only surviving colonial country in the world, from whose clutches have fled only a few nations, who gained sovereignty. Still this is not an complete view of the Empire, because the 84 nations covered in this book is only a third of more than 200 nations and cultures, whose fate is evanesce and disappearance into the larger Russian population by aggressive social politics. This relentless process is irreparable loss to world cultural heritage, diversity and democratic freedoms. On the other hand, it is also a loss to these nations economy, because the aggressor ravages and robs natural resources while destroying the environment. The idea of the book the author, publisher and financier a Thomas Niimann.

Author: Raymond E. Zickel
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 1182

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Author: Walter Kolarz
Publisher: [Hamden, Conn.] : Archon Books
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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