Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Affirmative Action EmpireCondition: NewSubtitle: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939ISBN-10: 0801486777EAN: 9780801486777ISBN: 9780801486777Publisher: Cornell University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/01/2001Description: The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s, the Bolshevik government, seeking to defuse nationalist sentiment, created tens of thousands of national territories. It trained new national leaders, established national languages, and financed the production of national-language cultural products.This was a massive and fascinating historical experiment in governing a multiethnic state. Terry Martin provides a comprehensive survey and interpretation, based on newly available archival sources, of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. He traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of dozens of official national languages, and the world's first mass "affirmative action" programs. Martin examines the contradictions inherent in the Soviet nationality policy, which sought simultaneously to foster the growth of national consciousness among its minority populations while dictating the exact content of their cultures; to sponsor national liberation movements in neighboring countries, while eliminating all foreign influence on the Soviet Union's many diaspora nationalities. Martin explores the political logic of Stalin's policies as he responded to a perceived threat to Soviet unity in the 1930s by re-establishing the Russians as the state's leading nationality and deporting numerous "enemy nations."Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 28gAuthor: Terry MartinGenre: HistoryBook Series: Wilder House Series in Politics, History and CultureTopic: Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: The Affirmative Action Empire
Title: The Affirmative Action Empire
Subtitle: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939
ISBN-10: 0801486777
EAN: 9780801486777
ISBN: 9780801486777
Release Date: 11/01/2001
Release Year: 2001
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture
Book Title: Affirmative Action Empire : Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939
Number of Pages: 528 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Topic: Minority Studies, World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Publication Year: 2001
Item Height: 1.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 32 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Terry Martin
Book Series: The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
