The Affirmative Action Empire

by Terry Martin and Terry Martin

Book Overview

The Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms characteristic of the modern nation-state. In the 1920s, the Bolshevik government, seeking to defuse nationalist sentiment, created tens of thousands of national territories. It trained new national leaders,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801486777
• ISBN13: 9780801486777
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher