| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 367 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Culture & society after socialism |
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Culture and society after socialism.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
Francis 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 Soviet Union. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations.
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Minorities -- Government policy -- Soviet Union.
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Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0801442737 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0801489083 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780801489082 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780801442735 hardcover |
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9780801489082 paperback |
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9780801455933 ebook |
| Standard No. |
heb40037 hdl |
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