CHAPTER 3. The 1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FIGURES AND MAPS ix
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES xv
6. TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. PART ONE. Empire, Nation, and the Scientific State
9. CHAPTER 1. Toward a Revolutionary Alliance 21
10. CHAPTER 2. The National Idea versus Economic Expediency 62
11. CHAPTER 3. The 1926 Census and the Conceptual Conquest of Lands and Peoples 101
12. CHAPTER 4. Border-Making and the Formation of Soviet National Identities 145
13. CHAPTER 5. Transforming “The Peoples of the USSR”: Ethnographic Exhibits and the Evolutionary Timeline 187
14. PART 3 The Nazi Threat and the Acceleration of the Bolshevik Revolution
15. CHAPTER 6. State-Sponsored Evolutionism and the Struggle Against German Biological Determinism 231
16. CHAPTER 7. Ethnographic Knowledge and Terror 273
17. Epilogue 309
18. APPENDIX 327
19. BIBLIOGRAPHY 337
20. INDEX 355