Contributors

Introduction

Ronald Grigor Suny

Terry Martin

PART I: EMPIRE AND NATIONS

The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, ``National'' Identity, and Theories of Empire

Ronald Grigor Suny

An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism

Terry Martin

PART II: THE REVOLUTIONARY CONJUNCTURE

Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905--1925

Joshua Sanborn

To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia

Peter Holquist

Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917--1920

Adeeb Khalid

PART III: FORGING ``NATIONS''

Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919--1920

Daniel E. Schafer

Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity

Douglas Northrop

PART IV: STALINISM AND THE EMPIRE OF NATIONS

The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan

Matt Payne

Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938--1953

Peter A. Blitstein

``...It Is Imperative to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority'': Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941--1945

David Brandenberger

Index