The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917–1923, Revised EditionHarvard University Press, 1964 - 365 pages Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area--first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands. |
Contents
The Russian Empire on the Eve of the 1917 Revolution | 1 |
National Movements in Russia | 7 |
Socialism and the National Problem in Western and Central Europe | 21 |
Russian Political Parties and the National Problem | 29 |
Lenins Theory of SelfDetermination | 41 |
EMPIRE | 50 |
The Moslem Borderlands | 75 |
The Caucasus | 93 |
SOVIET CONQUEST OF THE CAUCASUS | 193 |
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNION OF SOVIET | 242 |
The Opposition to Centralization | 255 |
Formulation of Constitutional Principles of the Union | 269 |
Lenins Change of Mind | 276 |
The Last Discussion of the Nationality Question | 289 |
Chronology of Principal Events | 298 |
Bibliography | 304 |
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The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917–1923 ... Richard Pipes Limited preview - 1997 |