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Familiar strangers : the Georgian diaspora and the evolution of Soviet empire /

"While past scholars have portrayed the Soviet Union as a Russian-led empire composed of separate national republics, Erik R. Scott draws on untapped archival documents in multiple languages to make the case that it was actually an empire of diasporas, forged through the mixing of a diverse arr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, R. Erik, 1978- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Georgia (Republic) > Relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Relations > Georgia (Republic)
Georgians (South Caucasians) > Migrations > History.
Migration, Internal > Soviet Union > History.
Cultural pluralism > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union > Ethnic relations.
Soviet Union > Territorial expansion.
Soviet Union > Economic conditions.
Georgier.
Diaspora.
Kulturkontakt.
Georgien.
Sowjetunion.
Table of Contents:
  • An empire of diasporas
  • Between the Caucasus and the Kremlin
  • Edible ethnicity
  • Dances of difference
  • Strangeness for sale
  • Beyond the ethnic repertoire.