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How must Sovietology change as a result of the Soviet Union's collapse? Motyl and his colleagues suggest that the first step in reorientation of the field must involve recognizing the non-Russians and their republics as central to both Soviet politics and to the post-Soviet reality.

The authors, all leading Sovietologists, illustrate how nationality interacted with and shaped ideology, law, elite recruitment, political repression, modernization, participation, political economy, and class.

Each of the articles traces the relationship between nationality and aspects of the Soviet system up to the collapse of the USSR and the emergence in its stead of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The contributors not only provide a coherent interpretation of the demise of Soviet Communism, but they also sugest what dangers and opportunities lie in store for the Soviet Union's successor states.

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• The "National Factor" and the Logic of Sovietology
• Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historic Perspective: What Gorbachev Inherited
• Ideology and the Making of a Nationalities Policy
• Legitimations, Nationalities, and the Deep Structure of Ideology
• Managing Nationalism: State, Law, and the National Question in the USSR
• Elites and Ethnic Identities in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
• The Political Police and the National Question in the Soviet Union
• Nations of the USSR: From Mobilized Participation to Autonomous Diversity
• Development and Ethnicity in the Soviet Union
• Soviet Economic Structure and the National Question
• Class, Social Structure, Nationality
• The End of Sovietology: From Soviet Studies to Post-Soviet Studies

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CHOICE Review

This volume's editor as well as its other contributors are all well-reputed scholars in the field of Soviet and Russian politics. The 12 essays present well-written and readable analyses of nationalism, ethnic conflict, and the consequences of the demise of the Soviet Union. The experience of communist rule is explored in several of the essays, and the fate of non-Russian nationalities under this rule is carefully explored. Some nationalities were undoubtedly treated better than others from the center of power in Moscow. But this was not an arbitrary policy: important ideological and political rationales were applied to distinctions made among the various nationalities. The volume reveals in detail, for example, how the superiority of the Russian state was justified by Leninist theory. The superiority extended to the economic, political, and military spheres. The essays provide a comprehensive treatment of these spheres. Each essay includes footnotes, and there is a useful index. An important asset to the serious student of the Soviet Union and the immediate aftermath of its dissolution. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty. M. Slann; Clemson University

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Alexander J. Motyl is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Nationalities Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. He is author of Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR, and the editor of Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities: History & Comparison in the Study of the USSR, both from Columbia University Press.