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Suny, Ronald Grigor. Ed(S): Suny, Ronald Grigor - The Revenge of the Past. Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.  - 9780804721349 - V9780804721349
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The Revenge of the Past. Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Description for The Revenge of the Past. Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union. hardcover. This timely and pathbreaking work shows how and why the dramatic collapse of the soviet Union was caused in large part by nationalism, that is, by the increasingly urgent demands of the subject nationalities of the Soviet Union for independence and autonomy. Editor(s): Suny, Ronald Grigor. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.

This timely work shows how and why the dramatic collapse of the Soviet Union was caused in large part by nationalism. Unified in their hostility to the Kremlin's authority, the fifteen constituent Union Republics, including the Russian Republic, declared their sovereignty and began to build state institutions of their own. The book has a dual purpose. The first is to explore the formation of nations within the Soviet Union, the policies of the Soviet Union toward non-Russian peoples, and the ultimate contradictions between those policies and the development of nations. The second, more general, purpose is to show how nations ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804721349
SKU
V9780804721349
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

Reviews for The Revenge of the Past. Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.
"This is a briliant tour-de-force analysis of the history of ethnopolitics in the tsarist and Soviet empires. Students and scholars alike will welcome the succinct outline of state policies, social processes, and focal events forming the identities of groups and nations. . . . A very important and useful book . . . more durable than other recent publications dealing ... Read more

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