Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union / Francine Hirsch.
Series: Culture and society after socialismPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource (388 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0801442737 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801489083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801489082
- 9780801455940 (e-book)
- Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge and the making of the Soviet Union [Cover title]
- 323.147/09/04 22
- DK33 .H57 2005eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index.
Toward a revolutionary alliance -- The national idea versus economic expediency -- The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of lands and peoples -- Border-making and the formation of Soviet national identities -- Transforming "the peoples of the USSR" : ethnographic exhibits and the evolutionary timeline -- State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism -- Ethnographic knowledge and terror.
Description based on print version record.
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