Empire Of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge And The Making Of The Soviet Union

Empire Of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge And The Making Of The Soviet Union
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Toward a revolutionary alliance The national idea versus economic expediency 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 State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism Ethnographic knowledge and terror.

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