Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union

The "nationality question" was long central to Soviet thought and policy, and the failure to provide a convincing answer played a major role in the break up of the Soviet Union into ethnically or nationally defined states. Dina Zisserman-Brodsky explores various explanations of nationalism and its resurgence through a close examination of dissident writings of diverse ethnic groups in the former Soviet Union, thereby bridging macro-theory with micro-politics.