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008			190920s2014 nyu fod z000 0 eng d
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050	0	4	_aDK33 _b.E475 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aHirsch, Francine, _e1
245	1	0	_aEmpire of Nations : _bEthnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union / _cFrancine Hirsch.
260			_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource : _b7 charts/graphs/maps, 20 halftones.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aCulture and Society after Socialism
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tFIGURES AND MAPS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tNOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES -- _tTERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- _tIntroduction -- _tPART ONE. Empire, Nation, and the Scientific State -- _tCHAPTER 1. Toward a Revolutionary Alliance -- _tCHAPTER 2. The National Idea versus Economic Expediency -- _tCHAPTER 3. The 1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples -- _tCHAPTER 4. Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities -- _tCHAPTER 5. Transforming "The Peoples of the USSR": Ethnographic Exhibits and the Evolutionary Timeline -- _tPART 3 The Nazi Threat and the Acceleration of the Bolshevik Revolution -- _tCHAPTER 6. State-Sponsored Evolutionism and the Struggle Against German Biological Determinism -- _tCHAPTER 7. Ethnographic Knowledge and Terror -- _tEpilogue -- _tAPPENDIX -- _tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- _tINDEX
520	0		_aWhen the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks integrated the national idea into the administrative-territorial structure of the new Soviet state. In Empire of Nations, Francine 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 new Soviet Union. The ethnographers-who drew inspiration from the Western European colonial context-produced all-union censuses, assisted government commissions charged with delimiting the USSR's internal borders, led expeditions to study "the human being as a productive force," and created ethnographic exhibits about the "Peoples of the USSR." In the 1930s, they would lead the Soviet campaign against Nazi race theories. Hirsch illuminates the pervasive tension between the colonial-economic and ethnographic definitions of Soviet territory; this tension informed Soviet social, economic, and administrative structures. A major contribution to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Empire of Nations also offers new insights into the connection between ethnography and empire.
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500			_aAvailable through De Gruyter.
650		0	_aEthnology _zSoviet Union.
650		0	_aMinorities _xGovernment policy _zSoviet Union.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aDe Gruyter.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=881682&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell