ABSTRACT

This volume gives an overview of the regional, ethnic and political structure of the Soviet empire from its establishment through its ultimate disintegration. It provides a corrective to the Russocentrism and Great Power bias that has marked most studies of the Soviet Union.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

The Disintegration of the Soviet Empire

part 1|52 pages

Regions

chapter 1|8 pages

The Russian Core

chapter 2|7 pages

Ukraine and Belarus

chapter 3|6 pages

The Baltic West

chapter 4|8 pages

Muslim Central Asia

chapter 5|8 pages

The Divided Caucasus

chapter 6|4 pages

Moldova

chapter 7|5 pages

The Volga Basin

chapter 8|4 pages

Siberia

part 2|45 pages

Minorities

chapter 9|7 pages

The “Punished Peoples”

chapter 10|7 pages

The Jews

chapter 11|5 pages

The Germans

chapter 12|4 pages

Minorities Within the Republics

chapter 13|5 pages

Russians in Central Asia and Kazakhstan

chapter 14|4 pages

Russians in the Baltic States

chapter 15|4 pages

Russians in Ukraine and Belarus

chapter 16|7 pages

Inter-Republican Migration

part 3|48 pages

Issues

chapter 17|3 pages

The Legacy of Soviet Federalism

chapter 18|17 pages

Border Disputes

chapter 19|3 pages

Language Policies

chapter 20|4 pages

Reinterpreting History

chapter 21|4 pages

The Semiotics of Nationality Policies

chapter 22|5 pages

Religion and Nationalism

chapter 23|3 pages

Ethnic Cadres Policy

chapter 24|7 pages

The Economics of Separatism

part 4|37 pages

Policies

chapter 26|5 pages

Lenin's Nationality Policy, 1917–1922

chapter 27|4 pages

Soviet Nationality Policy in the 1920s

chapter 29|3 pages

Moscow and Nationalities in the 1940s

chapter 30|3 pages

Khrushchev's Nationality Policies

chapter 31|3 pages

Brezhnev's Peace and Prosperity

chapter 32|6 pages

The Rupture of the Modus Vivendi

chapter 33|4 pages

Yeltsin and the Nationalities

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion