The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State 1917-1930

In this enlightening and provocative book, a distinguished writer on international affairs traces the failure of Soviet nationalities policy to the formative years of the Bolshevik regime when that policy was formulated and implemented. The author explores the unfolding of the national question from pre-revolutionary period through 1930 bringing to light the broad array of national issues and nationality groups that made history in the old Soviet satellites around the Baltic.