I. The National Problem in Russia. The Russian Empire on the Eve of the 1917 Revolution. National Movements in Russia. Socialism and the National Problem in Western and Central Europe. Russian Political Parties and the National Problem. Lenin and the National Question before 1913. Lenin's Theory of Self-Determination -- II. 1917 and the Disintegration of the Russian Empire. The General Causes. The Ukraine and Belorussia. The Moslem Borderlands. The Caucasus. The Bolsheviks in Power -- III. Soviet Conquest of the Ukraine and Belorussia. The Fall of the Ukrainian Central Rada. The Communist Party of the Ukraine: Its Formation and Early Activity (1918). The Struggle of the Communists for Power in the Ukraine in 1919. Belorussia from 1918 to 1920 -- IV. Soviet Conquest of the Moslem Borderlands. The Moslem Communist Movement in Soviet Russia (1918). The Bashkir and Tatar Republics. The Kirghiz Republic. Turkestan. The Crimea -- V. Soviet Conquest of the Caucasus
The Transcaucasian Federation. Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus and Eastern Transcaucasia (1918). The Independent Republics (1918-19). The Prelude to the Conquest. The Conquest -- VI. The Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Consolidation of the Party and State Apparatus. The Opposition to Centralization. Formulation of Constitutional Principles of the Union. Lenin's Change of Mind. The Last Discussion of the Nationality Question -- Ethnic Distribution of Population, 1897 and 1926 -- The System of Transliteration
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