Soviet Nationalities in Strategic Perspective

Soviet Nationalities in Strategic Perspective
Author: S. Enders Wimbush
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000265668

This book, first published in 1985, examines the problem of nationality in the Soviet empire. Nationality issues affect many of the critical domestic and foreign policy questions that faced the Soviet leadership. Nationality trends in the 1980s conduced to make the relationship between Soviet domestic nationality concerns and Soviet foreign policy clearer: the problem both affected and was affected by its strategic environment. This book analyses this environment and the forces at work within it.

Soviet Nationalities in German Wartime Strategy, 1941-1945

Soviet Nationalities in German Wartime Strategy, 1941-1945
Author: Alex Alexiev
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN:

This study examines the determinants and character of German policies toward the Soviet non-Russian nationalities and their effects on the Soviet and German war efforts and on the nationalities themselves. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of the nature and magnitude of military collaboration with the Germans by the non-Russian nationalities, in an attempt to examine the military exploitability of the political warfare opportunities that presented themselves. Section II outlines the attitudes toward the Soviet nationalities prevalent among the Nazi leadership and the role envisaged for them in a postwar German-dominated Europe, and juxtaposes them on the views of German officials who did not share Nazi dogma and advocated a more pragmatic approach. German policies in the occupied non-Russian territories and their implications are examined in Sec. III. Section IV describes the different types and degrees of military collaboration with the Germans. The main conclusions are summarized in Sec. V.

Soviet Nationalities in Strategic Perspective

Soviet Nationalities in Strategic Perspective
Author: S. Enders Wimbush
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000264653

This book, first published in 1985, examines the problem of nationality in the Soviet empire. Nationality issues affect many of the critical domestic and foreign policy questions that faced the Soviet leadership. Nationality trends in the 1980s conduced to make the relationship between Soviet domestic nationality concerns and Soviet foreign policy clearer: the problem both affected and was affected by its strategic environment. This book analyses this environment and the forces at work within it.

Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary

Adventures in the Soviet Imaginary
Author: Robert Bird
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Ausstellung
ISBN: 9780943056401

Two of the most striking manifestations of Soviet image culture were the children's book and the poster. This text plots the development of this new image culture alongside the formation of new social and cultural identities.

Empire of Nations

Empire of Nations
Author: Francine Hirsch
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2014-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801455944

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 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.

Ethnicity and Conflict in a Post-Communist World

Ethnicity and Conflict in a Post-Communist World
Author: Peter King
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349222135

The post-Communist world has seen a dramatic revival of ethnicity and nationalism. The volume explores the contemporary sources, scope and intensity of nationality conflicts in the context of a disintegrating Soviet Empire. The authors address themselves to the resurgence of ethnicity and nationalism within the former Soviet imperium, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria and China and examine the consequences of perestroika and glasnost. Central issues involve identity formation, the nature and implications of ethnic and internal conflicts and possible paths toward resolution.

The Soviet Union

The Soviet Union
Author: Tania Raffass
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2012
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0415688337

The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation, but really an empire, liable to break up when individual federal units, which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units, sought independence. This book questions this interpretation, revisiting the theory of federation, and discussing actual examples of federations such as the United States, arguing that many federal unions, including the United States, are really centralised polities. It also discusses the nature of empires, nations and how they relate to nation states and empires, and the right of secession, highlighting the importance of the fact that this was written in to the Soviet constitution. It examines the attitude of successive Soviet leaders towards nationalities, and the changing attitudes of nationalists towards the Soviet Union. Overall, it demonstrates that the Soviet attitude to nationalities and federal units was complicated, wrestling, in a similar way to many other states, with difficult questions of how ethno-cultural justice can best be delivered in a political unit which is bigger than the national state.

Moscow's Muslim Challenge

Moscow's Muslim Challenge
Author: Michael Rywkin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2016-07-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315490870

A study of the history of Soviet Central Asia and the demographic, political, economic and cultural weight of the Muslims that reside there. This book examines current trends in this area which is one of Russia's most turbulent and misunderstood minority regions.

Ethnic Minorities In The Red Army

Ethnic Minorities In The Red Army
Author: Alexander R. Alexiev
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429712944

This book treats the issue of national diversity of Soviet military manpower that affects the morale, effectiveness, and reliability of the Soviet armed forces. It explores the historical dimensions of military multinationalism with respect to the Russian and Soviet military establishments.