book chapter
Historical setting: 1917 to 1991
Russia: a country study • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1996 • Pages: 53-119
By: Skallerup, Thomas Mark, Nichol, James P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a useful short history of modern Russia, from the 1917 communist revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. In addition to an outline of important events and of the political, economic and administrative transformations under communist rule, there is lengthy consideration of global and of domestic ethnic and religious factors contributing to its downfall.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Form and rules of government
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Pressure politics
- Political parties
- Political movements
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Russians
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Europe
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2019
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1917 -1991
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas Skallerup and James P. Nichol
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 119a-119g)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 97007563
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Soviet Union--History.