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Author Martin, Terry (Terry Dean), author.

Title The affirmative action empire : nations and nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 / Terry Martin.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2001]
Ã2001

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 496 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-482) and index.
Contents The Soviet affirmative action empire -- Borders and ethnic conflict -- Linguistic Ukrainization, 1923-1932. The background to Ukrainization, 1919-1923 -- Affirmative action in the Soviet East, 1923-1932 -- Latinization campaign and the symbolic politics of national identity -- The politics of national communism, 1923-1930 -- The national interpretation of the 1933 famine -- Ethnic cleansing and enemy nations -- The revized Soviet nationalities policy, 1933-1939 -- The reemergence of the Russians -- The friendship of peoples.
Summary 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.
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 Minorities -- Soviet Union.
Nationalism and socialism -- Soviet Union.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
Added Title ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 0801438136 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801438134 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801486777 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780801486777 paperback
9781501713316 ebook
Standard No. heb40038 hdl

 
    
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