Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development. This multi-authored volume seeks new interpretations and confronts issues as diverse as the political role of Czech gymnastic clubs, Russian-Muslim relations in the Russian Empire, the ethnic factor in Stalin's purges, and the nature of Russian imperialism in Finland.
About the Author: VLADIMIR P. BULDAKOV Vice-Chairman of the Academic Council of the 'History of the Revolutions in Russia' Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences and General Secretary of the International Commission on the History of the October Revolution MARJAN DRNOVSEK Member of the Institute for Slovene Emigration Studies, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts VLADIMIR FEDIUK Professor of Russian History, Iarosalavl' State University LIUDMILA GATAGOVA Research Fellow, Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences MICHAEL GELB Member of the Academic Publications Branch at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum MINTON F. GOLDMAN Professor of Russian and East European Politics, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass ERICH HABERER Lecturer in German and Russian History, University of Toronto AUSTIN JERSILD Assistant Professor of History, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia KRISTINA KALLEINEN Senior Assistant, Departments of Political History, University of Helsinki JOHN D. KLIER Corob Professor of Modern Jewish History, University College, London AUVO KOSTIAINEN Senior Lecturer in General History, University of Turka, Finland ANTTI KUJALA Senior Lecturer in Finnish and Russian History, University of Helsinki CLAIRE NOLTE Associate Professor of History, Manhattan College, New York City TOIVO U.RAUN Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington AZADE-AYSE RORLICH Associate Professor of Russian History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles ALEKSANDR USHAKOV Research Fellow, Centre of Political Economic History, Russian Independent Institute of National and Social Problems, Moscow STEPHEN VELYCHENKO Lecturer in History, University of Toronto PETER R. WEISENSEL Lecturer in Russian and German History, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota NANCY M. WINGFIELD Assistant Professor of History, Northern Illinois University