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The Soviet Union - Federation or Empire?: (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)

The Soviet Union - Federation or Empire?: (Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe)


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The Soviet Union is often characterised as nominally a federation, but really an empire, liable to break up when individual federal units, which were allegedly really subordinate colonial units, sought independence. This book questions this interpretation, revisiting the theory of federation, and discussing actual examples of federations such as the United States, arguing that many federal unions, including the United States, are really centralised polities. It also discusses the nature of empires, nations and how they relate to nation states and empires, and the right of secession, highlighting the importance of the fact that this was written in to the Soviet constitution. It examines the attitude of successive Soviet leaders towards nationalities, and the changing attitudes of nationalists towards the Soviet Union. Overall, it demonstrates that the Soviet attitude to nationalities and federal units was complicated, wrestling, in a similar way to many other states, with difficult questions of how ethno-cultural justice can best be delivered in a political unit which is bigger than the national state.



Table of Contents:
Part 1: 1. The Original Federation 2. Daniel J. Elazar’s Covenantal Interpretation of American Federalism 3. The Roots of the Soviet Federation Part 2: 4. The American Federation and Secession 5. Conflicting Perspectives on the Dissolubility of the American Union 6. Secession as a Constitutional Right in the USSR Part 3: 7. A Constitutional Comparison between the Soviet and Emerging Western Models of Multinational Federalism 8. On the Integrative Effects of Federalism and Consociation Part 4: 9. The Soviet Union and Nation 10. The Soviet State as Viewed by Nationalists Part 5: 11. Imperial Contiguity and Russia’s ‘Stunted Nationhood’ 12. Was the Soviet Union the ‘Last Empire’?

About the Author :
Tania Raffass is a postgraduate researcher at the School of Political Social Inquiry, Monash University

Review :

Overall this is a thorough book by Tania Raffass, showing a good knowledge of Russian and American political history, and one that presents a compelling argument for avoiding the tag of ‘empire’ in classifying the Soviet Union, that it was simply one variation of what we class as federalism, and that liberalism should not be conflated with federalism.
- Gerard Clare, University of Glasgow


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781136296383
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 400
  • ISBN-10: 1136296387
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 400
  • Series Title: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe


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