Empire of Nations Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

Name: Empire of Nations Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
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ISBN: 9780801489082

ISBN-10: 0801489083

ISBN-13: 9780801489082

Edition: 2014

Authors: Francine Hirsch

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Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English




Empire, nation, and the scientific state



Toward a revolutionary alliance



The national idea versus economic expediency



Cultural technologies of rule and the nature of Soviet power



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



The Nazi threat and the acceleration of the Bolshevik revolution



State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism



Ethnographic knowledge and terror