a history of the nationalities problem in the USSR Nahaylo, Bohdan creator Swoboda, Victor text bibliography nyu New York Free Press 1990 1st American ed. monographic eng

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xvi, 432 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. 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. Nations of the Russian Empire -- 1917 revolutions : the empire breaks up -- 1919 : sovereign Soviet republics -- The Moslem nations -- National contracts with the non-Russians -- The national contract torn up -- Between Hitler and Stalin -- Stalin's last years : the terror against nations -- Towards a partial restoration of the national contract -- Khrushchev changes course again -- Brezhnev and Kosygin make their mark -- Forging the Soviet people -- Acceleration amid 'stagnation' -- Andropov and Chernenko keep up the pressure -- Gorbachev and the advent of glasnost' -- Glasnost' but no perestroika -- Crisis in the empire -- Waiting for Gorbachev. Bohdan Nahaylo and Victor Swoboda. Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-417) and index. e-ur--- Ethnology Soviet Union Etnología Unión Soviética Relaciones étnicas Unión Soviética Soviet Union Ethnic relations Soviet Union History Unión Soviética Historia 338 DK 33 N153s 1990 947/.004 0029224012 (hbk) 9780029224014 (hbk) 89071502 DLC 111019 20230411090604.0 4820193 spa