Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism- 1917-1923 Book

I	The National Problem in Russia
	The Russian Empire on the Eve of the 1917 Revolution	1
	National Movements in Russia	7
	Socialism and the National Problem in Western and Central Europe	21
	Russian Political Parties and the National Problem	29
	Lenin and the National Question before 1913	34
	Lenin's Theory of Self-Determination	41
II	1917 and the Disintegration of the Russian Empire
	The General Causes	50
	The Ukraine and Belorussia	53
	The Moslem Borderlands	75
	The Caucasus	93
	The Bolsheviks in Power	107
III	Soviet Conquest of the Ukraine and Belorussia
	The Fall of the Ukrainian Central Rada	114
	The Communist Party of the Ukraine: Its Formation and Early Activity (1918)	126
	The Struggle of the Communists for Power in the Ukraine in 1919	137
	Belorussia from 1918 to 1920	150
IV	Soviet Conquest of the Moslem Borderlands
	The Moslem Communist Movement in Soviet Russia (1918)	155
	The Bashkir and Tatar Republics	161
	The Kirghiz Republic	172
	Turkestan	174
	The Crimea	184
V	Soviet Conquest of the Caucasus
	The Transcaucasian Federation	193
	Soviet Rule in the North Caucasus and Eastern Transcaucasia (1918)	195
	The Independent Republics (1918-19)	204
	The Prelude to the Conquest	214
	The Conquest	221
VI	The Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
	The Consolidation of the Party and State Apparatus	242
	The Opposition to Centralization	255
	Formulation of Constitutional Principles of the Union	269
	Lenin's Change of Mind	276
	The Last Discussion of the Nationality Question	289
	Conclusion	294
	Chronology of Principal Events	298
	Ethnic Distribution of Population, 1897 and 1926	300
	The System of Transliteration	302
	Bibliography	304
	Notes	329
	Index	353