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"This book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the Caucasus in the 1920s - the transitional period from Russian Empire to Soviet Union. Seventy years later these ethnic autonomies were to become the loci of violent ethno-political conflicts…

The aim of this book is to provide a systematic analysis of the Soviet Union's major nationalities in light of the new developments under perestroika. It deals in detail with 20 of the 140 nationalities, and looks at how they have been affected by, and responded to glasnost.