There are a number of people and funding agencies that I would like to thank. I owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. John-Paul Himka. His talk at the University of Northern British Columbia challenged my assumptions of nation and nationhood and inspired me to do this work. Dr. Himka comments were invaluable to my writing of this article. Likewise, Dr. Oleg Kharkhordin was instrumental in my completing this paper. His comments and his expertise was greatly appreciated. Dr. James McDonald, Chair of Anthropology at UNBC and Sarah Ramage, a graduate student at this same university were equally kind enough to read the text and provide comments and corrections. I also want to acknowledge my Ph.D. committee who has been overseeing my work these past years. This includes Dr. Cliff Hickey, my supervisor, and Drs. Derek Sayer and Claude Denis. Finally, I want to thank a number of funding agencies for their contribution to the research that lead to this paper: the Estonian Studies Fund, the Canadian Circumpolar Institute and the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.
The research for this study was funded by Alberta Advanced Education International Programs (Alberta, Canada), by the Canadian Circumpolar Institute (Edmonton, Alberta), and the University of Alberta Louise Imre Travel Grant (Alberta, Canada). The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and insights. This paper was presented in embryonic form at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, North Carolina, April, 10-13, 1996.
A Russian-language version of this article has been published as Natsional’noe stroitelstvo i naztionalnyi konflikt v SSSR v 1920-e gody // G. N. Sebast’ianov (ed.). Rossiia v XX veke. Reformi i revolutsii. Moscow, 2001. The article is based on a paper submitted at a conference on “Reform and Revolution in 20th Century Russia” organised by the International Commission on the Russian Revolution and held in Moscow from 10th-12th October 2001. Material used in this article was also used in papers presented to the Study Group on the Russian Revolution Conference held in Durham, UK, in January 2001, and at the 6th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), held at Columbia University, 5-7 April 2001. I would like to thank participants at all three conferences for their comments and suggestions.
The paper was originally presented at the Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales, Sciences Po, Paris, in December 2000.
The International CEP Conference “Siberia – Far East: The Regional Identity at the Threshold of the 21st Century”
3/2001
Published in Russian.
Dominic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals (London: John Murray, 2000; Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2001), xxiii, 486 p.; ill., maps.