Hirsch, Francine,  1967- <br/><br/>
Empire of nations :  ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union / 
Francine Hirsch. 
 - Ithaca :  Cornell University Press,  2005. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 367 pages) :  illustrations, maps 
 - Culture & society after socialism .
 - Culture and society after socialism. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/> E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal  American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/ 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index. 
<br/><br/>Toward a revolutionary alliance -- The national idea versus economic expediency -- The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of lands and peoples -- Border-making and the formation of Soviet national identities -- Transforming "the peoples of the USSR" : ethnographic exhibits and the evolutionary timeline -- State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism -- Ethnographic knowledge and terror. 
<br/><br/> Francis Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the Soviet Union. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801455933 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>heb40037  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--Soviet Union.--Government policy--Soviet Union.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union--Ethnic relations.<br/>Soviet Union--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Ethnology Minorities 
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