Sorcerer as Apprentice

STEPHEN BLANK, Professor of Soviet Studies and National Security Analyst at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, coedited The Soviet Military and the Future with Jacob Kipp (1993). He is also the author of War and the New Thinking: Soviet Policies in Central and Latin America (1992) and Operational Strategic Lessons of the Soviet War in Afghanistan (1991).

• AcknowledgementsThe Origins of NarkomnatsThe First Days of NarkomnatsExpansion and ConsolidationNarkomnats in Sovnarkom, 1918-19Narkomnats Reorganization and Nationality Policy During the NEP 1921-23The Local Branches of Narkomnats, 1918-23The Development of Soviet Cultural Policy: Language, Education, and ReligionThe Origins of SultangalievismThe Crisis of Soviet Nationality Policy 1922-23Denouement: The Trial of Sultangaliev and the End of NarkomnatsEpilogue: Narkomnats, the National Question, and the Rise of StalinismAppendix: Delegates to Sultangaliev's TrialNotesBibliographic EssayIndex