Nationalism And Policy Toward The Nationalities In The Soviet Union

Taylor & Francis

This book is a study of the causes of the fall of the Soviet empire. It relates the story of Soviet nationalities policy from the 1920s to the mid-1980s and focuses on the strategies and instruments the Soviet leadership employed to integrate the \""Soviet\"" nations and to keep the empire together. > This book is a study of the causes of the fall of the Soviet empire. It relates the story of Soviet nationalities policy from the 1920s to the mid-1980s and focuses on the strategies and instruments the Soviet leadership employed to integrate the \""Soviet\"" nations and to keep the empire together. > 1. Introduction 2. Nation-Building 3. \""Great-Russian Chauvinism\"" and the Nationalism of the Other Peoples 4. Agricultural Collectivization and the Famine 5. Industrialization and Migration 6. Stalin's \""Solution\"" to the Nationalities Issue 7. War 8. De-Stalinization 9. A New Nationalism