Familiar Strangers Scott Erik R. Assistant Professor of History University of Kansas
Familiar Strangers Scott Erik R. Assistant Professor of History University of Kansas A small, non-Slavic nation located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia was more closely linked with the Ottoman…
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Familiar Strangers Scott Erik R. Assistant Professor of History University of Kansas
A small, non-Slavic nation located far from the Soviet capital, Georgia was more closely linked with the Ottoman and Persian empires than with Russia for most of its history. Familiar Strangers aims to explain how Georgians gained widespread prominence in the Soviet Union, yet remained a distinctive national community.Through the history of a remarkably successful group of ethnic outsiders at the heart of Soviet empire, Erik R. One of over one hundred officially classified Soviet nationalities, Georgians represented less than 2% of the Soviet population, yet they constituted an extraordinarily successful and powerful minority.
Scott contests the portrayal of the Soviet Union as a Russian-led empire composed of separate national republics and instead argues that it was an empire of diasporas, forged through Scott reinterprets the course of modern Russian and Soviet history.