Weds., August 26: Theories of Empire Terry Martin, “An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism,” A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, pp. 67-90 Yuri Slezkine, “The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism” Here is … Continue reading Week 1