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Soviet Ice-Breaker

Ronald Suny on Moshe Lewin, The Soviet Century. The stubborn heterodoxy of a former officer of the Red Army and leading scholar of the USSR.

Incomplete Revolution: National Movements and the Collapse of the Soviet Empire

“Early in September, less than a month after the abortive coup in Moscow, Soviet ethnographers gathered in Bishkek (formerly Frunze), the capital of the newly independent Kyrgiz republic, for their annual national conference. Confronted by the radically transformed political situation in what was repeatedly referred to as ‘the . . .” read more

The Revenge of the Past: Socialism and Ethnic Conflict in Transcaucasia

“At the beginning of the twentieth century, when Social Democrats agonized over the emerging ‘national question’, Russian Marxists sought at one and the same time to win allies among the non-Russian nationalities and to combat the project of the nationalists to splinter the unitary state. Secure in their . . .” read more