TY - BOOK AU - Hirsch,Francine TI - Empire of nations: ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union T2 - Culture & society after socialism AV - DK33 .H57 2005eb U1 - 323.147/09/04 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Ethnology KW - Soviet Union KW - Minorities KW - Government policy KW - Ethnic relations KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index; Toward a revolutionary alliance -- The national idea versus economic expediency -- The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of lands and peoples -- Border-making and the formation of Soviet national identities -- Transforming "the peoples of the USSR" : ethnographic exhibits and the evolutionary timeline -- State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism -- Ethnographic knowledge and terror UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10967324 ER -