1st Edition

National Identities in Soviet Historiography The Rise of Nations under Stalin

By Harun Yilmaz Copyright 2015
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

Under Stalin’s totalitarian leadership of the USSR, Soviet national identities with historical narratives were constructed. These constructions envisaged how nationalities should see their imaginary common past, and millions of people defined themselves according to them. This book explains how and by whom these national histories were constructed and focuses on the crucial episode in the... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Construction of Azerbaijani Identity Under the Shadow or Iran and Turkey

2. Miraculous Return of Babak to Azerbaijan

3. Pure Slavic Blood for Ukraine

4. Adventurous Lives of Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi

5. The Rise of Red Batyrs in the Kazakh Steppe

Introduction to War Period

6. Soviet Iranian Azerbaijan at War

7. Kazakh Batyrs Marching in Stalingrad

8. Bohdan Khmel’nyts’kyi Fighting Against Germans

Epilogue

Bibliography

Biography

Harun Yilmaz holds his MSc. and PhD from the University of Oxford, UK. He was a post-doc research fellow at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, USA (2012) and a tutor at the University of Oxford. Currently he is a British Academy post-doctoral Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His area of interest and published research covers modern history of and contemporary politics in Russia, Ukraine, Caucasus, and Central Asia.

"The book makes for instructive reading, may serve well as a teaching tool...Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." 
--A. Ezergailis, emeritus, Ithaca College, CHOICE