Introduction
1. Making Minorities and National Hierarchies
2. Territory, War, and Nation-Building in the South Caucasus
Interlude: After Stalin: Reform and Revenge
3. Defining the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
4. The Vanishing Minority: Scholars, Politicians, and the
Production of Soviet Assimilation Narratives
5. Minority Activism and Citizenship after Stalin
Conclusion
Krista A. Goff is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami and coeditor of Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands. Follow her on X @krista_goff8.
This is a meticulous study of Soviet nationality policy, focusing
on Azerbaijan, based on extensive archival research and oral
history from 120 interviews.
*Choice*
Across this book, Goff juggles a laudable range of detail with
clarity and persuasion, reminding at each turn how much further one
could go.
*Slavonic and East European Review*
To find out how things worked in the republics, you have to go to
Krista Goff's fascinating story of the Caucasus, the product of
dauntingly difficult research in recalcitrant archives and with
oral history informants inclined to look anxiously over their
shoulders.
*London Review of Books*
In this impressive first monograph, Krista Goff offers new insight
into Soviet nation-building in the non-Russian republics,
particularly in the Southern Caucasus. [T]he book offers rich,
archivally grounded detail on a range of complex issues in the
South Caucasus. Written in accessible prose and with clear
argument, it will prove to be essential reading for scholars of
Soviet nation-building and the South Caucasus.
*The Russian Review*
[A] pioneering study, illuminating a hitherto unknown perspective
on the history of the Soviet nationality policy, and the USSR
generally. Moreover, it will serve future generations as an
essential reference work on the history of Soviet Azerbaijan and
the development of Soviet Azeri national consciousness, surpassing
all other previous works on this subject. Enriched by lively and
engaging prose, and a first-rate source base of archival materials
and interviews, it makes for insightful and dynamic reading. A new
classic in the field, it is a highly recommended work!
*The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review*
A core value of the book lies not only in the originality of its
thesis but also in the utilization of archival and oral history
sources that are presented to us for the first time. It is a
testament to Goff's investigative tenacity that the final product
is an empirically rich and cogent work of scholarship.
*Canadian-American Slavic Studies*
Krista A. Goff produces a groundbreaking work of historiography
that examines Soviet nationality politics in the context of the
"nontitular" ethnicities of the Caucasus, with particular attention
given to minority groups in the Azerbaijan SSR. Nested Nationalism
is an achievement in its own right.
*Ab Imperio*
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