Alexander J. Motyl is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Nationalities Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. He is author of Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR, and the editor of Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities: History & Comparison in the Study of the USSR, both from Columbia University Press.

The most comprehensive, theoretically informed scrutiny available of what happened. Europe Asia Studies

• The "National Factor" and the Logic of Sovietology, by Gregory Gleason Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historic Perspective: What Gorbachev Inherited, by Walker Connor Ideology and the Making of a Nationalities Policy, by Ronald J. Hill Legitimations, Nationalities, and the Deep Structure of Ideology, by Neil Harding Managing Nationalism: State, Law, and the National Question in the USSR, by John N. Hazard Elites and Ethnic Identities in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, by Mark R. Beissinger The Political Police and the National Question in the Soviet Union, by Amy Knight Nations of the USSR: From Mobilized Participation to Autonomous Diversity, by Theodore H. Friedgut Development and Ethnicity in the Soviet Union, by Zvi Gitelman Soviet Economic Structure and the National Question, by Richard E. Ericson Class, Social Structure, Nationality, by Walter D. Connor The End of Sovietology: From Soviet Studies to Post-Soviet Studies, by Alexander J. Motyl

Alexander J. Motyl is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Nationalities Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. He is author of Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR, and the editor of Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities: History & Comparison in the Study of the USSR, both from Columbia University Press.

The most comprehensive, theoretically informed scrutiny available of what happened. Europe Asia Studies

• The "National Factor" and the Logic of Sovietology, by Gregory Gleason Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historic Perspective: What Gorbachev Inherited, by Walker Connor Ideology and the Making of a Nationalities Policy, by Ronald J. Hill Legitimations, Nationalities, and the Deep Structure of Ideology, by Neil Harding Managing Nationalism: State, Law, and the National Question in the USSR, by John N. Hazard Elites and Ethnic Identities in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, by Mark R. Beissinger The Political Police and the National Question in the Soviet Union, by Amy Knight Nations of the USSR: From Mobilized Participation to Autonomous Diversity, by Theodore H. Friedgut Development and Ethnicity in the Soviet Union, by Zvi Gitelman Soviet Economic Structure and the National Question, by Richard E. Ericson Class, Social Structure, Nationality, by Walter D. Connor The End of Sovietology: From Soviet Studies to Post-Soviet Studies, by Alexander J. Motyl

Alexander J. Motyl is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Nationalities Studies Program at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. He is author of Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR, and the editor of Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities: History & Comparison in the Study of the USSR, both from Columbia University Press.

The most comprehensive, theoretically informed scrutiny available of what happened. Europe Asia Studies

• The "National Factor" and the Logic of Sovietology, by Gregory Gleason Soviet Policies Toward the Non-Russian Peoples in Theoretic and Historic Perspective: What Gorbachev Inherited, by Walker Connor Ideology and the Making of a Nationalities Policy, by Ronald J. Hill Legitimations, Nationalities, and the Deep Structure of Ideology, by Neil Harding Managing Nationalism: State, Law, and the National Question in the USSR, by John N. Hazard Elites and Ethnic Identities in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, by Mark R. Beissinger The Political Police and the National Question in the Soviet Union, by Amy Knight Nations of the USSR: From Mobilized Participation to Autonomous Diversity, by Theodore H. Friedgut Development and Ethnicity in the Soviet Union, by Zvi Gitelman Soviet Economic Structure and the National Question, by Richard E. Ericson Class, Social Structure, Nationality, by Walter D. Connor The End of Sovietology: From Soviet Studies to Post-Soviet Studies, by Alexander J. Motyl