A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin
"A State of Nationsgives 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 ofA State of Nationsgives 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