On Ruins of Empire
Subtitle: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union (Contributions in Political Science)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: January 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780313300448
Subjects: Anthropology; Nationalism; Political economy; Political structure & processes; Race And Ethnic Relations; Political Science; History - General History; History: American; Politics/International Relations; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - Former Soviet Republics; General; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Government - Comparative; Government policy; History; Minorities; Nationalism and communism; Soviet Union
First sentence: The Soviet Union was a unique kind of empire, not only, nor even primarily, because people of the dominant nationRussiawere by and large worse off economically than those of some of the southern republics.