Kevin C. O'Connor is assistant professor of history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He holds a Ph.D in Russian and Soviet History from Ohio University and is author of The History of the Baltic States and the forthcoming Culture and Customs of the Baltic States.

O'Connor is very informative on the development of Russian nationalism....The book is very nicely produced, [and] physically a pleasure to read.

• 1 Russians, the RSFSR, and Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1917 - 19532 Russian Nationalism, Russification, and the Rise of the "Russian Party," 1953 - 19853 Writers: An Opposition in Embryo, 1986 - 19884 The Ligachev Line, 1986 - 19885 "Russophobia:" Perestroika and the Russian Question6 A Consolidating Force: Creating a Russian Communist Party7 The Apparatchiks' Party8 A Word to the People9 "Russia to the Exit!"

Kevin C. O'Connor is assistant professor of history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He holds a Ph.D in Russian and Soviet History from Ohio University and is author of The History of the Baltic States and the forthcoming Culture and Customs of the Baltic States.

O'Connor is very informative on the development of Russian nationalism....The book is very nicely produced, [and] physically a pleasure to read.

• 1 Russians, the RSFSR, and Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1917 - 19532 Russian Nationalism, Russification, and the Rise of the "Russian Party," 1953 - 19853 Writers: An Opposition in Embryo, 1986 - 19884 The Ligachev Line, 1986 - 19885 "Russophobia:" Perestroika and the Russian Question6 A Consolidating Force: Creating a Russian Communist Party7 The Apparatchiks' Party8 A Word to the People9 "Russia to the Exit!"

Kevin C. O'Connor is assistant professor of history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He holds a Ph.D in Russian and Soviet History from Ohio University and is author of The History of the Baltic States and the forthcoming Culture and Customs of the Baltic States.

O'Connor is very informative on the development of Russian nationalism....The book is very nicely produced, [and] physically a pleasure to read.

• 1 Russians, the RSFSR, and Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1917 - 19532 Russian Nationalism, Russification, and the Rise of the "Russian Party," 1953 - 19853 Writers: An Opposition in Embryo, 1986 - 19884 The Ligachev Line, 1986 - 19885 "Russophobia:" Perestroika and the Russian Question6 A Consolidating Force: Creating a Russian Communist Party7 The Apparatchiks' Party8 A Word to the People9 "Russia to the Exit!"