TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirsch,Francine
TI  - Empire of nations: ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union 
T2  - Culture & society after socialism
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index; 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb40037
ER  -