A State of Nations; Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin

New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Good/No dust jacket issued. xii, 307, [1] pages. Map. Table. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ronald Grigor Suny (born September 25, 1940) is an American historian and political scientist. Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and served as director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, 2009 to 2012 and was the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan from 2005 to 2015, and is Emeritus Professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago. Suny was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan. He served as chairman of the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) in 1981 and 1984. He was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) in 2005 and given the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award in 2013. He was a 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Terry Martin is the author of The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the USSR, 1923-1939 and co-editor of A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford UP, 2001). In addition to questions of nationality and empire, he has written on religion, political and administrative history, Soviet neo-traditionalism, and the political police, as well as the Nazi-Soviet comparison. This collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on a wide geographic range, from Russia to Central Asia, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Soviet history and politics. Among the topics covered are: Imperial Russia, National Identity, Imperialism, Nation-Building, Population Statistics., Jadidism, Kashkortostan, Uzbek, Stalinism, Kazakh, Proletariat, Turksib, Nativization, Industrialization, Russification, and Nationalism.