Download or read book Ethnic and National Issues in Russian and East European History written by J. Morison and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-07-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia and the former Soviet Union, and the lands of the former Hapsburg Empire have an extraordinarily complex and varied pattern of ethnic settlement which has extended a great influence of their historical development. This multi-authored volume seeks new interpretations and confronts issues as diverse as the political role of Czech gymnastic clubs, Russian-Muslim relations in the Russian Empire, the ethnic factor in Stalin's purges, and the nature of Russian imperialism in Finland.