Title Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR

Published [Place of publication not identified] : Princeton University Press, [2017?]

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Description 1 online resource Series Princeton Legacy Library Contents Cover ; Part 1: Theoretical and Historical Framework; Part 2: National Territoriality in the Postwar USSR ; Appendix A: Evolution of the Soviet Federal System; Appendix B: Native Language Instruction in the USSR; Bibliography; Index Summary The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR is an important addition to the small library of essential works on the collapse of the Soviet empire. The first attempt to construct and test broad theoretical propositions about "place" and "territoriality" in the making of nations, it examines the critical social processes underlying the formation of nations and homelands in Russia and the USSR during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Robert Kaiser finds that for the most part national self-consciousness was only beginning to supplant a localist mentality by the time of World War I. The national problem faced by Lenin was fundamentally different from the more difficult nationalist challenge that confronted Gorbachev. In Kaiser's place-based theory, the homeland, once created in the imaginations of the Indigenous masses, powerfully structured national processes and international relations. "Indigenization" from below became an active competitor with nationality policies that promoted Russification, resulting in the restructuring of ethnic stratification to favor Indigenes in their respective home republics and to challenge Russian dominance outside Russia. The revolutionary changes occurring since 1989, Kaiser argues, should therefore be seen as part of a longer process of Indigenization Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-446) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Nationalism -- Russia Nationalism and socialism -- Soviet Union Self-determination, National -- Russia Self-determination, National -- Soviet Union Indigenous peoples -- Russia Indigenous peoples -- Soviet Union HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Indigenous peoples Nationalism Nationalism and socialism Self-determination, National Nationalismus Geschichte Nationalisme. Etnische groepen. Nationalisme -- URSS. Nationalisme -- Russie. Russia Soviet Union Russland Sowjetunion Form Electronic book ISBN 1400887291 9781400887293

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