Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the URSS

Dohdan Nahaylo, Viktor Svoboda

Simon and Schuster, 1990 - History - 432 pages

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.

Contents

• Nations of the Russian Empire: 3
• Colonial Seizures 17251825 M Pokrovskii: 13
• The Moslem Nations: 32
• National Contracts with the NonRussians: 44
• The National Contract Torn Up: 60
• Between Hitler and Stalin: 81
• The Terror Against Nations: 95
• Towards a Partial Restoration of the National Contract: 109
• Khrushchev Changes Course Again: 129
• Brezhnev and Kosygin Make Their Mark: 147
• Forging the Soviet People: 174
• Acceleration Amid Stagnation: 199
• Andropov and Chernenko Keep up the Pressure: 221
• Gorbachev and the Advent of Glasnost: 231
• Glasnost but no Perestroika: 254
• Unacknowledged photographs are privately owned: 255
• Crisis in the Empire: 283
• Waiting for Gorbachev: 310
• Conclusion: 351
• Appendix: 360
• Notes: 369
• Select Bibliography: 412
• Index: 418
• Mirza SultanGaliev 1922 Zhizn natsionalnostei no 1 1923: 436

About the author

Nahaylo is a British-born writer and broadcaster on Soviet affairs whose articles appear regularly in the British and American press.

Swoboda has been Senior Lecturer in Russian and Ukrainian, and is now Honorary Research Fellow, at the school of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies in the University of London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the URSS
• Authors: Dohdan Nahaylo, Viktor Svoboda
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 1990
• ISBN: 0029224012, 9780029224014
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: History / General