A Munich-based writer on Soviet affairs explores current ethnic unrest in Russia, which may decide the fate of Gorbachev's reform government. Numerous non-Russian nationalities make up close to half the Soviet population, and this is the first book to look at the histories of these nationalities and their crusade for the restoration of national rights.
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In Perestroika ( LJ 2/15/88), Mikhail Gorbachev stressed that "nationalist narrowmindedness and chauvinism" in the multinational Soviet Union has to be "countered by consistent internationalism." According to authors Nahaylo, a writer on Soviet affairs, and Swoboda, a research fellow at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at the University of London, this smacks of Russianization disguised as Sovietization. They urge the Soviet Union to rise above the imperial mindset, democratize, and mold a new national contract. They also outline the history of nationalities policies from Lenin to the present in excruciating detail, and they argue that use of force will not solve the problem, although they offer no alternatives. While this subject is particularly important given the recent uprisings of Soviet bloc countries, this is a scholarly book meant principally for specialists.
- John Yurechko, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- John Yurechko, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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'Russia' and the 'Soviet Union': for many in the West, including journalists, teachers and politicians who should know better, the two terms are still more or less synonymous. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Soviet Union, Central Committee, Supreme Soviet, Nagornyi Karabakh, Communist Party, Crimean Tatars, Central Asian, Red Army, Western Ukraine, Congress of Soviets, Ukrainian Catholic, North Caucasus, Ukrainian Party, Academy of Sciences, Council of Ministers, Soviet Russia, Soviet Germans, Uzbek Party, Congress of People's Deputies, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Twentieth Party Congress, Council of People's Commissars, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Bolshevik, Soviet Ukrainian New!
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'Russia' and the 'Soviet Union': for many in the West, including journalists, teachers and politicians who should know better, the two terms are still more or less synonymous. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sbornik dokumentov, national communism, nationalities problem, nationality question, nationality policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Soviet Union, Central Committee, Supreme Soviet, Nagornyi Karabakh, Communist Party, Crimean Tatars, Central Asian, Red Army, Western Ukraine, Congress of Soviets, Ukrainian Catholic, North Caucasus, Ukrainian Party, Academy of Sciences, Council of Ministers, Soviet Russia, Soviet Germans, Uzbek Party, Congress of People's Deputies, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Twentieth Party Congress, Council of People's Commissars, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Bolshevik, Soviet Ukrainian New!
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