The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise

Name: The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its DemiseAuthor(s): Brigid O'Keeffe\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350136779, 978-1350136779\nSynopsis\nThis book is the first to offer a concise, accessible overview of the evolution of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire. It reflects on how the Soviet Union was home to many ethnic minorities, and how their fates, and that of the USSR itself, were bound to the question of how the Soviet state responded variously throughout its existence to the fundamental question of ethnic difference across its vast and diverse territory. The book then examines how the Soviet collapse in 1991 fractured the Union along markedly national lines, leading to a variety of new nation-states including the Russian Federation being born.\n\nBrigid OKeeffe explains how and why the Bolsheviks inscribed ethnic difference into the bedrock of the Soviet Union and explores how minority peo.