{"product_id":"soviet-nationality-policy-urban-growth-and-identity-change-in-the-ukrainian-ssr-1923-1934-paperback-9780521522434","title":"Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923–1934 (Paperback) 9780521522434","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSoviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR 1923–1934\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA study of the impact of industrial revolution on national consciousness in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeorge O. Liber (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521522434, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 8 August 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e316 pages, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.3 x 2 cm, 0.509 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Liber's stimulating, balanced, and well-researched narrative demonstrates this and poses further problems for future scholarship.  It deserves to be widely read.\"    Myroslav Shkandrij, Journal of Ukrainian Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the early 1920s the Bolsheviks, who were overwhelmingly urban, proletarian, and Russian, believed that rapid industrialization would dissolve the non-Russian national identities and create a solid base of support for the new political order. By the end of the decade, however, the social changes initiated by rapid economic development strengthened national assertiveness. This book analyzes the precarious relationship between Soviet legitimacy-building and the consequences of rapid industrial development in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the most populous non-Russian republic in the USSR, during the 1920s and 1930s. The author shows how the interplay between industrialization, urbanization, and Soviet preferential policies produced a modern, urban Ukrainian identity. This, he argues, explains why the Stalinist leadership changed its course on the nationality question in the 1930s and gave precedence to the Russians in the USSR.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e A note on transliteration\u003cbr\u003e Maps\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Periphery and Center: 1. The Ukrainian environment, 1861–1921\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Bolshevik response\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Social Changes: 3. Urban growth and national identity\u003cbr\u003e 4. The working class and the trade unions\u003cbr\u003e 5. Communist Party membership\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Political consequences: 6. The transformation of the urban Ukrainian identity\u003cbr\u003e 7. The ideological challenge of Ukrainian national communism\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Center's Reaction: 8. Shifting the anchors of legitimacy\u003cbr\u003e 9. Scorching the harvest, 1930–1934\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Postwar%2020th%20century%20history,%20from%20c%201945%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW3%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW3\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46019765174552,"sku":"9780521522434","price":41.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521522434i_cb07033d-cf12-4813-8df9-832c854081a6.jpg?v=1691383646","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/soviet-nationality-policy-urban-growth-and-identity-change-in-the-ukrainian-ssr-1923-1934-paperback-9780521522434","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}