The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union Book

	Preface
	List of Maps
	List of Contributors
Ch. 1	The Soviet State and Nationalities Policy	2
Ch. 2	The Post-Soviet States and the Nationalities Question	23
Ch. 3	The Russians and the Russian Question	47
Ch. 4	Tatarstan and the Tatars	75
Ch. 5	The Northern Minorities	94
Ch. 6	Buryatiya and the Buryats	113
Ch. 7	Estonia and the Estonians	129
Ch. 8	Latvia and the Latvians	147
Ch. 9	Lithuania and the Lithuanians	170
Ch. 10	Ukraine and the Ukrainians	188
Ch. 11	Belarus and the Belarusians	210
Ch. 12	Moldova and the Moldovans	223
Ch. 13	Armenia and the Armenians	248
Ch. 14	Azerbaijan and the Azerbaijanis	269
Ch. 15	Georgia and the Georgians	291
Ch. 16	Kazakhstan and the Kazakhs	318
Ch. 17	Uzbekistan and the Uzbeks	334
Ch. 18	Turkmenistan and the Turkmen	348
Ch. 19	Tajikistan and the Tajiks	367
Ch. 20	Kyrgyzstan and the Kyrgyz	385
Ch. 21	Crimean Tatars	412
Ch. 22	The Jews	436
Ch. 23	Volga Germans	462
Ch. 24	Russians outside Russia: the new Russian diaspora	477
	Appendix 1: Ethnic and territorial claims of the post-Soviet states	498
	Appendix 2: Comparative tables for the major nationalities in the post-Soviet states	499
	Select bibliographic guide to further reading in the English language	506
	Index	511