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Soviet Disunion Hardcover – June 18, 1990
byBohdan Nahaylo(Author)
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Ethnic upheaval throughout the USSR now threatens the very reforms introduced by Gorbachev and may well decide the fate of his government. This volume describes the histories of the suppressed and angry nationalities, their drive for the restoration of national rights, and the implications for the future. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
- Print length432 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFree Press
- Publication dateJune 18, 1990
- Dimensions6.45 x 1.73 x 9.49 inches
- ISBN-100029224012
- ISBN-13978-0029224014
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In Perestroika ( LJ 2/15/88), Mikhail Gorbachev stressed that "nationalist narrowmindedness and chauvinism" in the multinational Soviet Union has to be "countered by consistent internationalism." According to authors Nahaylo, a writer on Soviet affairs, and Swoboda, a research fellow at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at the University of London, this smacks of Russianization disguised as Sovietization. They urge the Soviet Union to rise above the imperial mindset, democratize, and mold a new national contract. They also outline the history of nationalities policies from Lenin to the present in excruciating detail, and they argue that use of force will not solve the problem, although they offer no alternatives. While this subject is particularly important given the recent uprisings of Soviet bloc countries, this is a scholarly book meant principally for specialists.
- John Yurechko, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- John Yurechko, Georgetown Univ., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- Publisher : Free Press
- Publication date : June 18, 1990
- Edition : First Edition
- Language : English
- Print length : 432 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0029224012
- ISBN-13 : 978-0029224014
- Item Weight : 2 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.45 x 1.73 x 9.49 inches
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2013this book offers a very detailed, informative history of nationalities in the USSR, and how various communist leaders (from Lenin to Gorbachev) tried to handle it... this book comes highly recommended. One author wrote the first eight chapters while the second author wrote the final ten chapters. published some 18-24 months before dissolution/implosion of USSR, it makes the argument that the large number of repressed nationalities would greatly complicate Gorbachev's goal of a more open society under perestroika / glastnost. when reading this book, have handy the small volume by Andrei Amalrik, WILL THE SOVIET UNION SURVIVE UNTiL 1984, written circa 1972 and for which Amalrik was compelled into internal exile (the Soviet rulers called Amalrik's book and his thesis the product of a decadent deranged mind). Amalrik's key point was that the repressed nations inside the USSR would be its doom: the Balts, Georgians, 45 million Ukrainians, 50 million Muslims in soviet central Asia, etc. this book presents a trainload of great information on why..... for those who enjoy Soviet history and/or ethnic studies, it is well worth finding a copy.
