Empire of Nations – Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

Empire of Nations – Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

Empire of NationsEthnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union\nAuthor(s): Francine Hirsch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801442735, 978-0801442735\nSynopsis\nWhen the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks .

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