 | Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union Subjects: Ethnology -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Ethnic relations; Minorities -- Government policy -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Politics and government; In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union. Francine Hirsch is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
