Francine Hirsch

Empire of Nations

Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union

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Produktbeschreibung

In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union.

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Produktdetails

• Culture and Society after Socialism
• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780801489082
• ISBN-10: 0801489083
• Artikelnr.: 21361199

Autorenporträt

Francine Hirsch

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionPart One. Empire, Nation, and the Scientific State1. Toward a
Revolutionary Alliance2. The National Idea versus Economic ExpediencyPart
Two. Cultural Technologies of Rule and the Nature of Soviet Power3. The
1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples4.
Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities5.
Transforming "The Peoples of the USSR": Ethnographic Exhibits and the
Evolutionary TimelinePart Three. The Nazi Threat and the Acceleration of
the Bolshevik Revolution6. State-Sponsored Evolutionism and the Struggle
against German Biological Determinism7. Ethnographic Knowledge and
TerrorEpilogueAppendixes
Bibliography
Index