Ethnic and National Issues in Russian and East European History

Product Description Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the lands of the former Habsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development. This multi-authored volume seeks new interpretations and confronts issues as diverse as the political role of Czech gymnastic clubs, Russian-Muslim relations in the Russian Empire, the ethnic factor in Stalin's purges, and the nature of Russian imperialism in Finland. About the Author John Morison is at the School of History at the University of Leeds.