#  Professor Terry Martin 

Committee Member, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History

 

 

 



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 location\_on Center for Government and International Studies-South Building Room S328 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 

 smartphone [617-495-9895](tel:617-495-9895) 

 email <martin11@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Terry Martin is the author of The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the USSR, 1923–1939(Cornell UP, 2001) and co-editor (with Ronald Suny) of A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford UP, 2001). In addition to questions of nationality and empire, he has written on religion, political and administrative history, Soviet neo-traditionalism, and the political police, as well as the Nazi-Soviet comparison. He is currently completing a book on the politics and sociology of state information-gathering in the USSR from the revolution through the death of Stalin.

 

 

 





 

 

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