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Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union
- Title
- Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union / Francine Hirsch.
- Author
- Hirsch, Francine, 1967-
- Publication
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 367 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Culture and society after socialism
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-354) and index.
- Contents
- Empire, nation, and the scientific state -- Toward a revolutionary alliance -- The national idea versus economic expediency -- Cultural technologies of rule and the nature of Soviet power -- The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of lands and peoples -- Border-making and the formation of Soviet national identities -- Transforming "the peoples of the USSR" : ethnographic exhibits and the evolutionary timeline -- The Nazi threat and the acceleration of the Bolshevik revolution -- State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism -- Ethnographic knowledge and terror.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-6314
- ISBN
- 0801442737 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801489083 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005002722
- OCLC
- 57577405
- Author
- Hirsch, Francine, 1967-
- Title
- Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union / Francine Hirsch.
- Imprint
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
- Series
- Culture and society after socialism
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-354) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-6314