Nationalities Problem & Soviet Administration

RUDOLF SCHLESINGER, W. W. GOTTLIEB

• Part I The First Steps in the Organization of National Administration; Chapter 1 The Establishment of the Central Authorities for the Application of the Nationalities Policy; Chapter 2 Reports of Some of the Delegations of the National Republics Attached to the People'S Commissariat for Nationalities1Excerpts from: Report of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities for 1921 (in Russian), Moscow, December 1921.; Part II Soviet Nationalities Policy under the New Economic Policy; Chapter 3 Report at the Fourth Conference of the Cc with Nationalities Officials, June 10, 1923, on the Practical Measures for Applying the Resolution on the National Question of the Twelfth Part y Congress1Sochineniya, Vol. V, pp. 313–39—slightly abridged., byJ. V.STALIN; Chapter 4 A Letter to Comrade Kaganovich and Other Members of the Politburo3Sochineniya, Vol. VIII, pp. 149-57., byJ. V.Stalin; Chapter 5 Excerpts From, byF.KHODZHAYEV (1929); Chapter 6 Excerpts From; Chapter 7 The Koshchi Union in Kazakhstan2Sovetskoye Stroitelstvo, 1929, No. 4 (slightly abridged)., byA.BOGDANOV; Chapter 8 The Land and Water Reform in the Soviet East1Revolutsia i Natsionalnosti, 1930, No. 1 (slightly abridged)., by V.NODEL; Chapter 9 The Role of the Ethnographer in Soviet Construction in the North1Sovietskoye Stroitelstvo, 1929, No. 8 (slightly abridged)., by A.LINEVSKI; Chapter 10 Excerpts From: The Victory of the Latin Script …1Revolutsia i Ncitsionalnosti, 1930, No. 7, pp. 19-28. In the title of the article the words ‘the best monument for Comrade Agamaly-Ogly’ are added. In our translation the first two pages of the article, which represent an obituary of the leader of the latinization movement, are omitted.—R.S., by V.ALIYEV; Part III The Crisis in the Village and the Struggle for the Collectivization of Agriculture; Chapter 11 Excerpts From; Chapter 12 Revolutionary Legality Protecting the Elections in Azerbaidjan1Sovetskoye Stroitelstvo, 1929, No. 4., by N.SELIMKHANOV; Chapter 13 Clan Survivals as