The ""national question"" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with major consideration of th…
This survey of Russia as an ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the 16th century to the present, with consideration of the Soviet phase. It asks how Russians incorporated territories and how they were resisted.
"The topic of state-building has acquired a new actuality in recent years, following the collapse of the USSR and the 'Soviet bloc' and in view of the complex, often violent, territorial and ethnic conflicts which have ensued. Many of the current dilemmas and tragedies of the re…
Argues that Russian nationalism presents a serious alternative to declining Soviet ideology and that the USSR may revert to authoritarian isolationism. Rejects the distinction made by U.S. Sovietologists between "good" Orthodox nationalists and "bad" atheist "National Bolsheviks…
"During the 1930s, Stalin and his entourage rehabilitated famous names from the Russian national past in a propaganda campaign designed to mobilize Soviet society for the coming war. Legendary heroes like Aleksandr Nevskii and epic events like the Battle of Borodino quickly ecli…
