Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR.

Author
Kaiser, Robert J. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[Place of publication not identified] : Princeton University Press, [2017?]
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Princeton Legacy Library
Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-446) and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Language note
In English.
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.
ISBN
  • 1400887291 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781400887293 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
973770414
Doi
  • 10.1515/9781400887293
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