{"product_id":"the-formation-of-the-soviet-union-rev-ed-paper-nationalism-19171923-revised-edition-9780674309517","title":"The Formation of the Soviet Union Rev ed Paper","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence of a multinational Communist state. Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area—first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReviews of the first edition:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimply to chronicle the highly complicated sequence of events in the ethnic borderlands of Russia during the tumultuous years between 1917 and 1923 is a difficult problem by itself. Richard Pipes has not only accomplished this task…but he has given this complex story meaning and perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e * Political Science Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eThe most lucid description of the nationalist revolutionary upheavals following the October revolution. * International Journal *\u003cbr\u003ePipes has succeeded remarkably well in elucidating a most complex subject and in giving a systematic, well-documented, and well-written account of the stormy years, 1917–1923. * Russian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The National Problem in Russia   The Russian Empire on the Eve of the 1917 Revolution    National Movements in Russia    The Ukrainians and Belorussians. The Turkic Peoples. The Peoples of the Caucasus.    Socialism and the National Problem in Western and Central Europe   Russian Political Parties and the National Problem   Lenin and the National Question before 1913   Lenin's Theory of Self-Determination      2. 1917 and The Disintegration of the Russian Empire   The General Causes   The Ukraine and Belorussia   The Rise of the Ukrainian Central Rada (February-June 1917). From July to the   October Revolution in the Ukraine. Belorussia in 1917.   The Moslem Borderlands   The All-Russian Moslem Movement. The Crimea in 1917. Bashkiriia and the   Kazakh-Kirghiz Steppe. Turkestan and the Autonomous Government of Kokand.    The Caucasus   The Terek Region and Daghestan. Transcaucasia.   The Bolsheviks in Power      3. Soviet Conquest of the Ukraine and Belorussia   The Fall of the Ukrainian Central Rada   The Communist Party of the Ukraine: Its Formation and Early Activity (1918)    The Struggle of the Communists for Power in the Ukraine in 1919   Belorussia from 1918 to 1920      4. Soviet Conquest of the Moslem Borderlands   The Moslem Communist Movement in Soviet Russia (1918)   The Bashkir and Tatar Republics   The Kirghiz Republic   Turkestan   The Crimea      5. Soviet Conquest of the Caucasus   The Transcaucaslan Federation   Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus and Eastern Transcaucasia (1918)    The Terek Region. Baku.   The Independent Republics (1918-19)   Azerbaijan. Armenia. Georgia.   The Prelude to the Conquest   The Conquest   The Fall of Azerbaijan. The Fall of Armenia. The Fall of Georgia.      6. The Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics   The Consolidation of the Party and State Apparatus   The RSPSR. Relations between the RSFSR and the other Soviet Republics. The   People's Republics.   The Opposition to Centralization   Nationalist Opposition:   Enver Pasha and the Basmachis. Nationalist-Communist Opposition: Sultan-Galiev.   Communist Opposition: the Ukraine. Communist Opposition: Georgia.   Formulation of Constitutional Principles of the Union   Lenin's   Change of Mind   The Last Discussion of the Nationality Question      Conclusion   Chronology of Principal Events   Ethnic Distribution of Population, 1897 and 1926   The System of Transliteration      Bibliography   Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403584577879,"sku":"9780674309517","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-formation-of-the-soviet-union-rev-ed-paper-nationalism-19171923-revised-edition-9780674309517","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}