USSR: The Formation of the Soviet Union, Revised Edition

New York: Atheneum, 1968. Softcover. VG- clean and tight but for one line underlined on one page. Covers have age toning and a bit of edge wear but no chips or tears.. White wraps with black/orange lettering. 365 pp. with 3 maps and several bw illus. Atheneum College Edition No. 124. Originally published by Harvard University Press. A well-documented study of nationalism and communism in Russia showing how the deep-rooted social conflits that erupted in 1917 in the Tsarist empire spread to the Ukrainian, Caucasian and Asiatic periphery of the realm, mingled there with incipient national movements. Keen political analysis of the diverse forces at work in these areas reveals how the Bolsheviks were able to capitalize on the chaos and social ferment to emerge from the civil war as the dominant political power in these geographical areas as well as Russia.