Intellectuals and Apparatchiks

Kevin C. O'Connor is assistant professor of history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He holds a Ph.D in Russian and Soviet History from Ohio University and is author of The History of the Baltic States and the forthcoming Culture and Customs of the Baltic States.

• 1 Russians, the RSFSR, and Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1917 - 1953 2 Russian Nationalism, Russification, and the Rise of the "Russian Party," 1953 - 1985 3 Writers: An Opposition in Embryo, 1986 - 1988 4 The Ligachev Line, 1986 - 1988 5 "Russophobia:" Perestroika and the Russian Question 6 A Consolidating Force: Creating a Russian Communist Party 7 The Apparatchiks' Party 8 A Word to the People 9 "Russia to the Exit!"

O'Connor is very informative on the development of Russian nationalism....The book is very nicely produced, [and] physically a pleasure to read.