Title: The Bolsheviks and the national question, 1917-23
First published: 1999
Description: In examining the nationality policies of Lenin, Stalin and the Bolsheviks, Jeremy Smith has made extensive use of archive material previously unavailable to western researchers. This book explores the creation of a system of territorially-based national autonomy, national forms of education, recruitment of non-Russians to the communist cause and the disputes surrounding the creation of a federal multinational state - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Subjects: Politics and government, Ethnic relations, Soviet union, ethnic relations, Soviet union, politics and government, 1917-1991, Soviet union, history, revolution, 1905-1907
Places: Soviet Union
Time periods: 1917-1945
LC classification: DK33 .S55 1999