The Soviet Nationality Reader

Part 1 History and ideology: the Soviet prototype, Walker Connor; the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist republics, Richard Pipes; what's in a nation?, Grey Hodnett; when the "prison of peoples" was opened, Hlne Carre d'Encausse. Part 2 Federalism: the evolution of the Soviet federal system, Gregory Gleason; the debate over Soviet federalism, G. Hodnett; Soviet federalism and ethnic mobilization, Philip G. Roeder. Part 3 Elites and ethnic stratification: cadres policy in nationality areas - recruitment of CPSU first and second secretaries in non-Russian republics of the USSR, John H. Miller; ethnicity, the personnel weapon and neo-imperial integration - Ukrainian and RSFSR provincial officials compared, Mark Beissinger; Muslim cadres and soviet political development - reflections from a comparative perspective, Stephen L. Burg; the ethnic scene in the Soviet Union - the view of dictatorship, John Armstrong. Part 4 Economy: nationalities and the Soviet economy, Gertrude E. Schroeder; half full or half empty? the debate over Soviet regional equality, Donna Bahry and Carol Nechemais; the evolution of Soviet fiscal federalism, D. Bahry; who gets hired for what?, Nancy Lubin. Part 5 Language: language, culture, religion and national awareness, John Dunlop; Soviet language planning, Jonathon Poole; equality and efficiency in Soviet bilingual education policy, 1934-1980, Barbara A. Anderson and Brian D. Silver. Part 6 Nationalism and nationalist movements: the dialectics of nationalism in the USSR, Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone; ethnonationalsim and political stability - the Soviet case, Gail Warshofsky Lapidus; Lithuanian national policies, V. Stanley Vardys; nationalism and democracy in Gorbachev's Soviet Union - the case of Karabagh, Ronald Szporluk. Part 7 Coping with the nationalities crisis: ethnic politics in the Soviet Union, Paul Goble; the sobering of Gorbachev - nationality, restructuring and the West, Alexander J. Motyl; Soviet federalism, Stephan Kux; sovietology in one country, or comparative nationalities studies, A. Motyl.