The Bolsheviks and the national question, 1917-23

by Smith, Jeremy

In examining the nationality policies of Lenin, Stalin and the Bolsheviks, Jeremy Smith has made extensive use of archive material previously unavailable to western researchers. This book explores the creation of a system of territorially-based national autonomy, national forms of education, recruitment of non-Russians to the communist cause and the disputes surrounding the creation of a federal multinational state - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.