Starting In Early 1915, The Ottoman Turks Began Deporting And Killing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Armenians In The First Major Genocide Of The Twentieth Century. By The End Of The First World War, The Number Of Armenians In What Would Become Turkey Had Been Reduced By Ninety Percent--more Than A Million People. A Century Later, The Armenian Genocide Remains Controversial But Relatively Unknown, Overshadowed By Later Slaughters And The Chasm Separating Turkish And Armenian Versions Of Events. In This...

Like The Other Republics Floating Free After The Demise Of The Soviet Empire, The Independent Republic Of Georgia Is Reinventing Its Past, Recovering What Was Forgotten Or Distorted During The Long Years Of Russian And Soviet Rule. Whether Georgia Can Successfully Be Transformed From A Society Rent By Conflict Into A Pluralistic Democratic Nation Will Depend On Georgians' Rethinking Their History. This Is The First Comprehensive Treatment Of Georgian History, From The Ethnogenesis Of The Georgians...

This Biography Of The Young Stalin Is More Than The Story Of How A Revolutionary Was Made: It Is The First Serious Investigation, Using The Full Range Of Russian And Georgian Archives, To Explain Stalin's Evolution From A Romantic And Idealistic Youth Into A Hardened Political Operative. Suny Takes Seriously The First Half Of Stalin's Life: His Intellectual Development, His Views On Issue Of Nationalities And Nationalism, And His Role In The Social Democratic Debates Of The Late Nineteenth And Early...

Being National Is The Condition Of Our Times, Yet Never Before Has The Idea Of The Nation Been Under Such Scrutiny. With The Collapse Of The Bi-polar World Of The Cold War, There Has Also Been A Parallel Rise In The Subnational - The Claims Of Local, Regional And Ethnic Minorities - Economic Globalization, American Cultural Hegemony, International Migration, And Diasporization. In Becoming National Geoff Eley And Ronald Grigor Suny, Two Of The Foremost Authorities On Nationalism, Acknowledge These...