Bolsheviks and the National Question : Studies in Russia and East Europe - Jeremy Smith

Bolsheviks and the National Question

By: Jeremy Smith, Smith

Hardcover | 13 January 1999 | Edition Number 1

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The break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 was the death of a multinational, federal system that had its origins in the first few years following the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Russian Bolsheviks had no blueprint for how to deal with the problems posed by a multinational state, and this period was crucial as they engaged in creating a system which would allow the nationalities of the old Russian empire to flourish and develop. In examining the nationality policies of Lenin, Stalin and the Bolsheviks, Jeremy Smith has made extensive use of archive material previously unavailable to western researchers. This book explores the creation of a system of territorially- based national autonomy, national forms of education, recruitment of non-Russians to the communist cause and the disputes surrounding the creation of a federal multinational state - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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"Jeremy Smith's valuable new book deals with the formulation of Soviet nationalities policy from the Bolsheviks' assumption of power in October 1917 to the definitive formulation of the policy of indigenization...." - The Russian Review

"This is a well-written study, solidly based on archival materials and the contemporary press. Smith adds significant details to the fascinating story of how Bolsheviks built expedient political alliances with the non-Communist nationalists who supported their program of cultural revival, while at the same time dealing with opposition to Moscow's centralizing program from "national Communists" in Georgia, Ukraine, and elsewhere." - American Historical Review

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