An indispensable guide to the nationalities and states recently become visible after the obscuring demise of the Soviet Empire. Written by 25 scholars, the new edition details the major political developments in each region, locating each nationality within its historical, geopolitical, and cultural context. The volume also includes comparative statistical data and includes the key Northern Eurasia players in 1996: Russia, The Baltic States, the Ukraine, Belrus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sia. Eng. Scandinavian University Press, 1995. ... s. (Norwegian Nobel Insti-tute Lecture Series.) ISBN 82-00-22432-5 Forfatteren, som er professor, var i 1993 invitert til å forelese om na- sjonalistproblemene i det tidligere Sovjetunionen og i Russland ved Nobel- instituttets vårforedrag-serie. Her analyserer hun den rolle nasjoner og na-sjonal bevissthet spilte i Sovjet-staten og vurderer Russlands framtid i lysav multietnisitet og forholdet til tilgrensende nasjonalstater.

This text provides a survey of the Soviet management of the nationalities question. It traces the conflicts and tensions created by the geographic definition of national territories, the establishment of several official national languages and the world's first mass "affirmative action" programmes.

This volume examines nationality and ethnic relations in the post-Soviet states. It takes account of the changes since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989, provides overviews of nationalities policy in the Soviet period and the post-Soviet states and covers the different nationalities.

In a timely re-examination of the origins of the system which fell apart so dramatically in 1991, this book deals with the policies of the Soviets towards the non-Russian nationalities of the former Russian Empire. Making extensive use of previously unavailable material from the Soviet archives, Jeremy Smith explores the attempts of the Bolsheviks to promote the development of minority nationalities in the Soviet context, through a combination of political, cultural and educational measures, and looks at the disputes surrounding the creation of the Soviet Union.

This is a story about the solution of the nationalities question in the USSR, about the Leninist nationalities policy, the cooperation and mutual assistance of the Soviet peoples, and the flourishing of each of the Soviet republics.