Description: This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on a wide geographic range, from Russia to Central Asia, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Soviet history and politics.
Review Quotes: "A State of Nations gives a very useful overview of the actual situation of American studies on 'empire and nation-making' from the late tsarist empire to the end of the Stalin era."--Journal of Modern History
"The volume of A State of Nations gives a very useful overview of the actual situation of American studies on 'empire and nation-maiking' from the late tsarist empire to the end of the Stalin era. These innovative articles revise the image of Soviet nationality policies as a linear process, planned by the center, and show convincingly its contradictions and improvisations, the simultaneity and interdependence of nation creating and nation destroying."--The Journal of Modern History"This outstanding collection contains some of the most exciting research now available on nationalism and nation-making in the Soviet Union. With its cutting-edge scholarship, original insights, and theoretical sophistication, A STATE OF NATIONS is sure to make an important contribution to the study of the Soviet multinational state."--Adrienne Edgar, University of California, Santa Barbara"The book is not only an interesting and generally high-quality collection of essays, it also serves to introduce new work by a group of young scholars..."--The Russian Review