The Affirmative Action Empire

Terry Martin

Veröffentlicht von Cornell University Press 2001

The Affirmative Action Empire

Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939

Terry Martin

In der Reihe The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713323

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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."

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Terry Martin is Associate Professor of History at Harvard University.

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"In the popular imagination, the Soviet Union was always synonymous with Russia, but in the U.S.S.R.'s early days Soviet leaders had a very different idea in mind: they wanted to establish a true multinational, multiethnic empire. . . . Yet, as Martin shows in this fascinating history, simply giving an order was not enough, even in the Stalin years, and the complex relationship between socialism and nationalism in places like Ukraine often frustrated Soviet intentions."—The New Yorker, June 10, 2002

"Martin significantly advances our understanding of the early, formative years of Soviet nationality policy, providing a subtle and lucid reconstruction of its unique conceptual underpinnings and its stormy evolution. . . . Martin's work is more than an important contribution to the field of Soviet history; it is a critical piece in comprehending contemporary Ukrainian and Russian nationality."—Foreign Affairs, May/June 2002

"The real virtue of Martin's book—and all of the best new Soviet scholarship—is not in the theoretical model it propounds, but in the power of its details, gleaned from previously unknown documents. . . . Martin is able, for the first time, to explain what it was that the Soviet Union's leaders actually intended their nationality policy to achieve. . . . Reading Martin's work, . . . one is struck, above all, by how much stranger the Soviet Union is beginning to seem, in retrospect, than we thought it was at the time, and how much more perverse. . . . Reading this history also gives us in the West an insight, however narrow, into the turmoil experienced in the non-Russian lands of the former Soviet Union during the last decade. Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Georgia: these are now 'free' and independent states. Yet how real is this freedom? Might it not be another illusion, foisted upon them by a still powerful, and still much wealthier, Russian republic."—The New York Review of Books, February 12, 2004

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	i
Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	vii
List of Tables and Maps Open Access PDF downloaden	xi
Acknowledgments Open Access PDF downloaden	xiii
Footnote Abbreviations Open Access PDF downloaden	xv
A Note on Style Open Access PDF downloaden	xvii
1. The Soviet Affirmative Action Empire Open Access PDF downloaden	1
PARTONE. lmplementing the Affirmative Action Empire
2. Borders and Ethnic Conflict Open Access PDF downloaden	31
3. Linguistic Ukrainization, 1923-1932 Open Access PDF downloaden	75
4. Affirmative Action in the Soviet East, 1923-1932 Open Access PDF downloaden	125
5. The Latinization Campaign and the Symbolie Polities of National Identity Open Access PDF downloaden	182
PART TWO. The Political Crisis of the Affirmative Action Empire
6. The Polities of National Cornmunism, 1923-1930 Open Access PDF downloaden	211
7. The National Interpretation of the 1933 Famine Open Access PDF downloaden	273
PART THREE. Revising the Affirmative Action Empire
8. Ethnie Cieansing and Enemy Nations Open Access PDF downloaden	311
9. The Revised Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1933-1939 Open Access PDF downloaden	344
10. The Reemergenee of the Russians Open Access PDF downloaden	394
11. The Friendship of the Peoples Open Access PDF downloaden	432
Glossary Open Access PDF downloaden	462
Bibliography Open Access PDF downloaden	465
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	483

(English)

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Copyrightjahr: 2001
Zielgruppe: General/trade;
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- Inhalt: 528
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- Weitere: 47 tables, 4 maps
Schlagworte: Discrimination & Race Relations; Soviet & East European History; History

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Veröffentlicht: 17. Januar 2017
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