The Soviet Union as Multiethnic Empire

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The history of the Soviet Union as a multiethnic empire, 1917- 1991. Topics include Soviet nationality policy; the construction and evolution of the Soviet state and its constituent socialist republics; the evolution and variation of governmental approaches to managing and “Sovietizing” non-Russian citizens; the “everyday life” of non-Russian peoples throughout the empire; ethnic discrimination, conflicts, and deportations within the Soviet Union; the elevation of Russia as the “first among equals;” and the fracturing of the Soviet Union in 1991 along national lines. Emphasis will be placed on the geographic and cultural diversity of the Soviet Union as whole.