Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making 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.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.