Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union /

Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union /

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Francis Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the Soviet Union.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hirsch, Francine, 1967- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Series:	Culture and society after socialism.
Subjects:	Ethnology > Soviet Union. Minorities > Government policy > Soviet Union. Soviet Union > Ethnic relations. Soviet Union > Politics and government.
Online Access:	CONNECT CONNECT

Table of Contents:

Toward a revolutionary alliance
The national idea versus economic expediency
The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of lands and peoples
Border-making and the formation of Soviet national identities
Transforming "the peoples of the USSR" : ethnographic exhibits and the evolutionary timeline
State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism
Ethnographic knowledge and terror.