The former Soviet Union's diverse peoples
Subtitle: a reference sourcebook
By: James Minahan.
Series: Ethnic diversity within nations
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Ethnology -- Former Soviet republics.; Nationalism -- Former Soviet republics -- History.; Ethnic conflict -- Former Soviet republics -- History.; Former Soviet republics -- Ethnic relations -- Political aspects -- History.; Former Soviet republics -- Race relations -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prehistory to A.D. 1500. Physical setting -- Ethnic diversity -- Tribes and migrations -- Caucasus region -- Steppe lands : tribal migrations and the Eastern Slavs --  Finnic, Volga, and Baltic nations -- Central Asia (Turkestan) -- Eastern Slavs -- Tatar Conquest -- Russian lands in 1300 -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Documents -- Varangians (Normans) and the origins of the Russian and Ukrainian states -- Christianization of Russia -- Bibliography -- From the rise of Muscovy to the establishment of the Russian Empire. Russian Heartland -- Rise of Muscovy -- Ukraine -- Rivalries with Poland-Lithuania, Sweden, and Denmark -- Baltic Region -- Siberia -- Siberian Peoples -- Caucasus -- Central Asia (Turkestan) -- Russia's time of troubles -- Romanovs -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Bibliography -- National consolidation and the growth of national sentiment. Crimean War -- Ukrainians -- Belarussians -- Finnic peoples of Northwestern Russia -- Baltic Peoples -- Caucasus -- Crimean Tatars -- Peoples of the Volga Basin -- Permian Peoples -- Moldovans -- Nonterritorial ethnic groups -- Central Asians -- Siberia and the Far East -- Russian Empire in 1900 -- Significant people, places, and events -- Bibliography -- Upheavals and revolution, 1900-1921. The prelude to revolution -- 1905 Russian Revolution -- World War I -- Caucasus -- Crimean Tatars -- Baltic peoples -- Volga Peoples -- Siberia and the Siberians -- Jews -- Germans -- Central Asians -- Ukrainians and Belarussians -- Finns and Karels -- Moldovans -- Cossacks -- Soviet Consolidation -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Bibliography -- Consolidation of Soviet power, 1920-1938. Soviet consolidation -- Ukrainians -- Belarussians -- Caucasus -- Crimean Tatars -- Baltic Peoples -- Jews -- Volga nations -- Germans -- Moldovans -- Siberia and the Far East -- Central Asians -- Stalin era -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Bibliography -- World War II and the beginning of the Cold War, 1939-1970. Ukrainians -- Carpatho-Rusyns -- Belarussians -- Baltic nations -- Winter War, the Finno-Soviet conflict -- Moldovans -- Armenians -- Georgians -- Azeris -- Punished nations -- Demographic changes -- Stalin's postwar empire -- Khrushchev era -- Deported nations rehabilitated -- Central Asia -- Jews -- Rom (Gypsies) -- Siberian nations -- Cold War -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Bibliography -- Cold War stagnation and the rebirth of nationalism, 1971-1991. Ukrainians -- Belarussians -- Baltic Nations -- Jews -- Germans -- Moldovans -- Volga region -- Permian nations -- Caucasus nations -- Central Asians -- Russians -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Bibliography -- Disintegration of the Soviet empire and the emergence of fifteen independent states. Baltic States -- Caucasus region -- Slav nations -- Moldova -- Central Asian nations -- Twenty-First Century -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Document -- Statement by White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater on Lithuanian independence -- Bibliography -- Spread of nationalist sentiment beyond the union republics. Smaller ethnic groups in the Russian federation and the other former Soviet Republics -- Northwest -- Caucasian and Black Sea nations -- Ajars -- Ossetians -- Chechens and Ingush -- Dagestanis -- Kurds -- Talysh -- Circassians -- Karachais and Balkars -- Kalmyks -- Crimean Tatars -- Meskhetians -- Volga and Permian nations -- Nenets and the small groups of northern peoples -- Carpatho-Rusyns -- Magyars -- Gagauz -- Jews -- Roms -- Germans -- Greeks -- Bulgarians -- Altai -- Khakass -- Buryats -- Tuvans -- Karakalpaks -- Uighurs -- Koreans -- Sakhas -- Khants and Mansis -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Document -- Protest in Central Moscow remembers deportation of Soviet Germans -- Bibliography -- Russians and the loss of empire, 1986-2004. Russian diaspora -- Russians in Ukraine and Belarus -- Russians in Moldova -- Russians in the Baltic States-- Russians in Central Asia -- Russians in the Caucasus -- Cossacks -- Twenty-First Century -- Which Russian nationalism? -- Timeline -- Significant people, places, and events -- Bibliography.