Introduction : the prison-house of nations
Dispersal and reunion : revolution and civil war in the borderlands
Bolshevik nationality policies and the formation of the USSR
Nation-building the Soviet way
Surviving the Stalinist onslaught, 1928-1941
The Great Patriotic War and after
Deportations
Territorial expansion and the Baltic exception
Destalinisation and the revival of the republics
Stability and national development : the Brezhnev years, 1964-1982
From reform to dissolution, 1982-1991
Nation-making in the post-Soviet states
The orphans of the Soviet Union : Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniester.
Red nations : the nationalities experience in and after the USSR by Jeremy Smith. ISBN 9780521128704. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.