Francine Hirsch: 1 book
Empire of Nations
Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When 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...
