A State of Nations
Subtitle: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin
Contributors: Ronald Grigor Suny (Editor); Terry Martin (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 31, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780195144239
First sentence: AT THE TIME WHEN RUSSIAN POLITICIANS re-employed the term derzhava (Great Power) to provide a vision of a future Russia, Western writers resurrected the metaphor of "empire" to describe the former Soviet Union, and even post-Soviet Russia.