Table of Contents
1. The National Problem in Russia
The Russian Empire on the Eve of the 1917 Revolution
National Movements in Russia
The Ukrainians and Belorussians. The Turkic Peoples. The Peoples of the Caucasus.
Socialism and the National Problem in Western and Central Europe
Russian Political Parties and the National Problem
Lenin and the National Question before 1913
Lenin's Theory of Self-Determination
2. 1917 and The Disintegration of the Russian Empire
The General Causes
The Ukraine and Belorussia
The Rise of the Ukrainian Central Rada (February-June 1917). From July to the
October Revolution in the Ukraine. Belorussia in 1917.
The Moslem Borderlands
The All-Russian Moslem Movement. The Crimea in 1917. Bashkiriia and the
Kazakh-Kirghiz Steppe. Turkestan and the Autonomous Government of Kokand.
The Caucasus
The Terek Region and Daghestan. Transcaucasia.
The Bolsheviks in Power
3. Soviet Conquest of the Ukraine and Belorussia
The Fall of the Ukrainian Central Rada
The Communist Party of the Ukraine: Its Formation and Early Activity (1918)
The Struggle of the Communists for Power in the Ukraine in 1919
Belorussia from 1918 to 1920
4. Soviet Conquest of the Moslem Borderlands
The Moslem Communist Movement in Soviet Russia (1918)
The Bashkir and Tatar Republics
The Kirghiz Republic
Turkestan
The Crimea
5. Soviet Conquest of the Caucasus
The Transcaucaslan Federation
Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus and Eastern Transcaucasia (1918)
The Terek Region. Baku.
The Independent Republics (1918-19)
Azerbaijan. Armenia. Georgia.
The Prelude to the Conquest
The Conquest
The Fall of Azerbaijan. The Fall of Armenia. The Fall of Georgia.
6. The Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The Consolidation of the Party and State Apparatus
The RSPSR. Relations between the RSFSR and the other Soviet Republics. The
People's Republics.
The Opposition to Centralization
Nationalist Opposition:
Enver Pasha and the Basmachis. Nationalist-Communist Opposition: Sultan-Galiev.
Communist Opposition: the Ukraine. Communist Opposition: Georgia.
Formulation of Constitutional Principles of the Union
Lenin's
Change of Mind
The Last Discussion of the Nationality Question
Conclusion
Chronology of Principal Events
Ethnic Distribution of Population, 1897 and 1926
The System of Transliteration
Bibliography
Notes
Index
