Empire of Nations : Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- Terms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One. Empire, Nation, and the Scientific State -- 1. Toward a Revolutionary Alliance -- 2. The National Idea versus Economic Expediency -- Part Two. Cultural Technologies of Rule and the Nature of Soviet Power -- 3. The 1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples -- 4. Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities -- 5. Transforming "The Peoples of the USSR": Ethnographic Exhibits and the Evolutionary Timeline -- Part Three. The Nazi Threat and the Acceleration of the Bolshevik Revolution -- 6. State-Sponsored Evolutionism and the Struggle against German Biological Determinism -- 7. Ethnographic Knowledge and Terror -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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