Print version: Hirsch, Francine. Empire of nations : ethnographic knowledge & the making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2005 xviii, 367 pages ; 25 cm Culture & society after socialism ISBN 9780801489082
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index
Toward a revolutionary alliance -- The national idea versus economic expediency -- The 1926 census and the conceptual conquest of lands and peoples -- Border-making and the formation of Soviet national identities -- Transforming "the peoples of the USSR" : ethnographic exhibits and the evolutionary timeline -- State-sponsored evolutionism and the struggle against German biological determinism -- Ethnographic knowledge and terror.