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Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934

Categorie	Geschiedenis Rusland
Boeknummer	#410743-XU13
Titel	Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923-1934
Auteur	Liber, George O.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	0521522439
ISBN13	9780521522434
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, small maps, figures/tables, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In the early 1920s the Bolsheviks, who were overwhelmingly urban, proletarian, and Russian, believed that rapid industrialization would dissolve the non-Russian national identities and create a solid base of support for the new political order. By the end of the decade, however, the social changes initiated by rapid economic development strengthened national assertiveness. This book analyzes the precarious relationship between Soviet legitimacy-building and the consequences of rapid industrial development in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the most populous non-Russian republic in the USSR, during the 1920s and 1930s. The author shows how the interplay between industrialization, urbanization, and Soviet preferential policies produced a modern, urban Ukrainian identity. This, he ar... (Lees verder)gues, explains why the Stalinist leadership changed its course on the nationality question in the 1930s and gave precedence to the Russians in the USSR.
Pagina's	289
Conditie	Goed — Small stain top cut; crease back cover.
Prijs	€ 25,00

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