دانلود کتاب Soviet Disunion: A History Of The Nationalities Problem In The USSR

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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on Dates
A Note on Names
Part One
1 Nations of the Russian Empire
Early Russian conquests
The Russians* southern and western neighbours
The Transcaucasus
2 1917 Revolutions: The Empire Breaks Up
An independent Ukraine
A voluntary federation of nations
‘Independent* Soviet governments in re-occupied lands
3 1919: Sovereign Soviet Republics
The beginning» of a ‘National Contract*
Military alliance (or union) formalized
Ukrainian communists v. Bolsheviks
4 The Moslem Nations
Tatar national communists
Bashkiria
The North Caucasus
Turkestan: the rise and fall of Kokand autonomy
Basmachi: the Mujahedin of Central Asia
Link with Russia restored
Turkestan’s national communists
Lenta reasserts direct rule
5 National Contracts with the Non-Russians
External national contracts: the Balts
The gathering of the Caucasus
Stalin\'s autonomisation scheme
Lenin*« Testament
Non-Russians strive to safeguard their rights
The National Contract finalized
6 The National Contract Torn Up
The National Contract observed?
Ontoous breaches of the National Contract
Collectivization: the rural Terror
Assault on the nations
The Great Terror
Destruction of the cultural elite
Russification
7 Between Hitler and Stalin
Breaking in the new members of the Soviet family
Hitler invades: one people deported - another abandoned
The response of the non-Russians
Stalin appeals to the Russians
Stalin invokes ‘national contracts\'
From near-defeat towards victory
8 Stalin’s Last Years: The Terror Against Nations
Deportation of nations; the ‘Tatarenrein’ Crimea
The restoration of Soviet \'Ordnung’
The post-war armed resistance of the Ukrainians and the Balts
Witch-hunt for ‘nationalists’
Anti-Semitism: official
The ‘Doctors’ Plot*
Part Two
9 Towards a Partial Restoration of the National Contract
Beria attempts to play the nationalities card
A special deal for the Ukrainians?
Kazakhstan and the ‘Virgin Lands Scheme*
De-Stalinization and the nationalities
Cultural revivals and renewed national assertiveness
Literature and history
Deported peoples
10 Khrushchev Changes Course Again
Khrushchev’s education law and its imposition
A new offensive against ‘local’ nationalism
Purges in the non-Russian republics
National dissent and opposition
Ferment and the affirmation of national identity
11 Brezhnev and Kosygin Make Their Mark
Ferment in the Ukraine
Silva Kaputikian\'s Warning
Towards the 50th anniversary of Soviet rule
The Sino-Soviet conflict and the national question
Moderation or a holding action?
Shelest and the Ukraine
The Hussites
The Twenty-fourth Party Congress enunciates a ‘new’ formula
12 Forging the Soviet People
The political and cultural purge in the Ukraine
Other developments during the jubilee year
Brezhnev’s 50th anniversary speech and its implications
Artificial forcing in all but name
In defence of national rights
13 Acceleration Amid ‘Stagnation’
The Brezhnev Constitution
14 Andropov and Chernenko Keep up the Pressure
15 Andropov and Chernenko Keep up the Pressure
The Chernenko interlude
Resistance in a neo-Stalinist climate
The situation on the eve of Gorbachev’s accession
16 Gorbachev and the Advent of Glasnost’
A new leadership - but no new nationalities policy
Central Asia remains the main problem
Environmental issues and the Chernobyl* nuclear disaster
Moscow rules out real change
Religious double standards
The Alma-Ata Hots and their repercussions
Environmental issues
Limited piecemeal concessions
‘Nationalist epidemics*
... but still no change in policy
17 Crisis in the Empire
The Balts lead the way
18 Waiting for Gorbachev
More contradictions and contrasts
Constitutional crisis
Inharmonious ‘harmonization’
The crisis deepens
Gorbachev proclaims a state of ‘tremendous danger*
The centre attempts to draw the line
Into the nineties
Conclusion
Appendix
‘The lesser breeds*
Government system
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index