The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR is an important
addition to the small library of essential works on the collapse of
the Soviet empire. The first attempt to construct and test broad
theoretical propositions about "place" and "territoriality" in the
making of nations, it examines the critical social processes
underlying the formation of nations and homelands in Russia and the
USSR during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Robert Kaiser
finds that for the most part national self-consciousness was only
beginning to supplant a localist mentality by the time of World War
I. The national problem faced by Lenin was fundamentally different
from the more difficult nationalist challenge that confronted
Gorbachev. In Kaiser's place-based theory, the homeland, once
created in the imaginations of the indigenous masses, powerfully
structured national processes and international relations.
"Indigenization" from below became an active competitor with
nationality policies that promoted Russification, resulting in the
restructuring of ethnic stratification to favor indigenes in their
own respective home republics and to challenge Russian dominance
outside Russia. The revolutionary changes occurring since 1989,
Kaiser argues, should therefore be seen as part of a longer process
of indigenization. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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