Rachel Denber

• Editor's Note -- General Introduction -- History and Ideology -- The Soviet Prototype -- The Establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -- When the "Prison of Peoples" Was Opened -- Federalism -- The Evolution of the Soviet Federal System -- The Debate Over Soviet Federalism -- Soviet Federalism and Ethnic Mobilization -- Elites and Ethnic Stratification -- Cadres Policy in Nationality Areas: Recruitment of CPSU First and Second Secretaries in Non-Russian Republics of the USSR -- Ethnicity, the Personnel Weapon, and Neo-imperial Integration: Ukrainian and RSFSR Provincial Party Officials Compared -- The Ethnic Scene in the Soviet Union: The View of the Dictatorship -- Economy -- Nationalities and the Soviet Economy -- Half Full or Half Empty? The Debate Over Soviet Regional Equality -- The Evolution of Soviet Fiscal Federalism -- Language -- Language, Culture, Religion, and Cultural Awareness -- Soviet Language Planning: Goals, Results, Options -- Equality, Efficiency, and Politics in Soviet Bilingual Education Policy, 1934-1980 -- Nationalism and Nationalist Movements -- The Dialectics of Nationalism in the USSR -- Ethnonationalism and Political Stability: The Soviet Case -- Lithuanian National Politics -- Nationalism and Democracy in Gorbachev's Soviet Union: The Case of Karabagh -- Dilemmas of Russian Nationalism -- Coping with the Nationalities Crisis -- Ethnic Politics in the USSR -- The Sobering of Gorbachev: Nationality, Restructuring, and the West -- Soviet Federalism