Questions for discussion:

How did the Soviet government view the question of nationality? How did policy towards nationalities change in the 1930s? How did national differences intersect with other forms of difference, such as gender?

Set reading (to be prepared for class discussion):

Terry Martin, ‘The Affirmative-Action Empire: The Emergence of the Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1919-1923’, in The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents, ed. Ronald Suny (New York, 2003), pp. 93-102. Scan available here.

Douglas Northrop, 'Hujum: Unveiling Campaigns and Local Responses in Uzbekistan, 1927', in Donald J. Raleigh(ed.) Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soft Power, 1917-1953 (Pittsburgh, 2001), pp. 125-145. Available online: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jpv0NICOEb8C&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false

Selected further reading:

Adrienne Edgar, ‘Bolshevism, Patriarchy, and the Nation: The Soviet “Emancipation” of Muslim Women in Pan-Islamic Perspective’, Slavic Review, 65 (2006), 252–72.

Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union, 1 edition (Cornell University Press, 2014). E-book.

Marianne Kamp, The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (University of Washington Press, 2011). E-book.

Adeeb Khalid, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (University of California Press, 1999). E-book.

Yuri Slezkine, ‘The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism’, Slavic Review, 53 (1994), 414–452.

Ronald Suny and Terry Martin (eds.), A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). E-book.