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Revolution in China and Russia: Reorganizing Empires Into Nation States

Revolution in China and Russia: Reorganizing Empires Into Nation States

Zhou, Luyang

Hardcover

Series: Alternative Sinology

Chinese HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1526182750
ISBN13: 9781526182753
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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