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Luyang Zhou - Revolution in China and Russia, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

Revolution in China and Russia

Reorganizing empires into nation states

Av Luyang Zhou

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Most scholars believe that China’s nationality policy, like that of other socialist states, imitated the Soviet nationality model, a system which has been termed an “affirmative action empire.” This book offers two contributions to the literature which run counter to this convention. First, it argues that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union (USSR) were different; while the PRC was aimed to build an ideal-typical nation-state, the USSR was an open union of nation-states that was only temporarily confined to a physical territory. Second, while scholars who have noted this difference attribute it to contextual factors, such as ethnic structure, geopolitical status, and Russia’s intervention into the Chinese Revolution, this book contends that context shaped the Sino-Soviet difference, yet it did not determine it. Rather, there was significant leeway between the implications of the contextual factors, and what the policy-designers ultimately established. This book probes who held agency, and how these individuals bridged this gap.
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Luyang Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Zhejiang University

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CHOICE Recommended: Graduate students, faculty and professionalsW.G. Moss, Professor emeritus, Eastern Michigan University'The novelty in this book is the rich juxtaposition of the two revolutions, as Zhou traces the intellectual history among revolutionary figures in the two cases. While the Chinese revolution began at the same time as the Russian one, it took decades longer to come to fruition. Thus, the author convincingly argues that the timing and pacing of the two revolutions are fundamentally different.'Edward Schatz, International Affairs'This is an instant classic in comparative historical sociology, shedding light on imperial formations, nationalism, the sociology of revolutions and the character of revolutionary elites (made possible by innovative and exhaustive empirical research).'John Hall, Professor Emeritus, McGill University

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