| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780674010413 | | Publisher: Harvard University Press | | Publish Date: 4/1/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 31106288 | | Item#: B3D3C9 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 6.25L x 0.75T |
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| | | In this compelling study of the treatment of "enemy" minorities in the Russian Empire during the First World War, Eric Lohr uncovers a dramatic story of mass deportations, purges, expropriations, and popular violence. A campaign initially aimed at restricting foreign citizens rapidly spun out of control. It swept up Russian subjects of German, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds and drove roughly a million civilians from one part of the empire to another, resulting in one of the largest cases of forced migration in history to that time. Based on extensive archival research, much in newly available sources, "Nationalizing the Russian Empire is an important contribution to the study of empire and nationalism, the Russian Revolution, and ethnic cleansing.
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