Empire of Nations
Subtitle: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Culture and Society After Socialism)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780801442735
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; Revolutions & coups; First World War, 1914-1918; History - General History; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History; History: World; Russia; Ethnology; Anthropology - General; Ethnic relations; Government policy; Minorities; Soviet Union
First sentence: 1991 was a year of phenomenal events-bearing witness to the collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union and the official end of the Cold War.
Description: Francis 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 Soviet Union.