NATIONALITIES QUESTION IN THE SOVIET UNION

edited by Graham Smith (1990)

Written by a specially chosen team of international experts, The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union:

• Provides systematic and authoritative coverage of the twenty most important nationalities within the Soviet Union accounting for over 90% of the total population;
• Locates each nationality within its appropriate historical, geopolitical and cultural context;
• Analyses the response of each nationality to the far reaching changes associated with the Gorbachev administration; and
• Contains a statistical appendix including comparative socioeconomic and demographic data on the nationalities taken from the 1989 All-Union census.